Website Changes: Backend Updates and Removing Subscriptions

Brilliant orange, yellow and red colors of the leaves line the shore of the blue lake, the refelection of the leaves and blue sky with white clouds in the water.

Looking at my notes over the past few years, fall seems to be the time of year I start planning changes to this website.

Maybe it’s all those beautiful fall colors in the northern hemisphere that reminds me of changes and motivates me to update my website?

Anyway, in my efforts to streamline the website and prepare for migrating it from WordPress (more about that plan in another post), I’ve made some website changes and will remove one feature that may impact readers of this website.

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Jetpack, Do Better

Jetpack plugin home page highlighting security, performance, analytics, and growth tools.

When I announced my retirement from web design and development, I expected my future blog posts would be about technology, writing, social media, and birding.

Though I still care about them, my days of publishing posts about usability, accessibility, and WordPress were over.

Little did I think a month after my retirement I would once again be writing about WordPress.

Specifically, about the Jetpack plugin.

Yet here I am.

And I’m exasperated and frustrated and decided I needed to vent.

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Which Features are Free vs. Paid in the WordPress Jetpack Plugin?

Jetpack plugin home page highlighting security, performance, and growth tools made for WordPress sites by the WordPress experts.

I’ve been using the WordPress Jetpack plugin for so many years, I can never remember which features are free and which ones are paid.

A couple weeks ago, I searched the Jetpack site trying to find a page that lists all features as paid or free.

And I couldn’t find it.

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