Jetpack widget
If you have cut your teeth on a wordpress.com website before moving to a self-hosted website you will be familiar with Jetpack which is installed by default on their websites.
You can now install Jetpack, the most complete WordPress widget on your own website and have the following features at your disposal from ONE widget:-
- Visitor stats – via wordpress.com
- Publicize – Use social media to publicise your site’s posts
- Notifications – Monitor and manage your site’s activity
- Subscriptions – Allow your users to subscribe to posts and comments
- Post by email – Publish posts to your blog directly by email, perhaps from your smartphone
- After the deadline – spelling, style and grammar check
- Gravatar Hovercards – pop up business cards of your users’ profiles
- Contact form – Insert one anywhere on your site
- Widget usability – Control what pages your widget appears on
- wp.me – shortlinks for easier sharing of your posts and pages
- Shortcut embeds – videpos and more from Youtube, Vimeo and Slideshare
- Custom CSS – without modifying your theme
- Extra sidebar widgets
- JSON API
- Mobile push notifications – on your mobile device