It might have been a while in the making, but Jetpack 1.2 has finally landed. The biggest feature in the update is the addition email subscriptions which Scott Berkun calls a “surprisingly powerful feature” in the comments.
So the updated Jetpack plugin will allow anyone to subscribe to your blog posts via email through a sidebar widget. Each time a post is published, WordPress.com will send a notification to subscribers. The plugin will also allow for subscriptions to post comments, mirroring the functionality folks usually use Subscribe to Comments for.
Jetpack 1.2 brings a fair number of other features and enhancements as well:
- Improved user interface for showing new and updated Jetpack features
- Better support for other languages
- Smarter and safer Jetpack upgrades
- New shortcodes for VideoPress & Google Maps
- Added LinkedIn and Google+ buttons to Sharing UI
- Image Widget & RSS Links Widget
Alright, your turn. How did the 1.2 flight upgrade work out for you? Is there anything you’d like to see included in future versions of Jetpack?
Do you know if there is a way to transfer user subscriptions to comments from the ‘Subscribe to Comments’ plugin over to Jetpack? Thanks
That’s a great question Lori, sadly I don’t know, but I’ll try and find out!
I really like this update, really do.
But, I don’t know what happened to the localized files. I’ve checked some files, not all of them, and most are half finnished. The spanish language -po- file, for example, comes totally empty.
I don’t know if it’s meant to be packaged this way. I think they could’ve used the translations of the previous version.
Off topic question: What plugin (if any) are you using to get those great looking buttons for us to use in the comments area?
Greetings from Spain…
Everyone can help translate Jetpack using GlotPress, but if they’ve been translated in previous versions, then it’s beyond me if they’re meant to be like that, unless each and every string for translation has been changed in some way? (I’ll see if I can get someone from Jetpack HQ to enlighten us!)
And I believe the plugin is called Comment Form Quicktags?
Thank you very much Mark for the quick reply. Thank you also for the GlotPress link, I’m going to help translate the plugin to spanish.
My pleasure, and good luck!
I really hope this update fixes the incompatibility with BuddyPress.
I really wish they would release an update that had the WordPress.com comment plugin which allows users to comment with Twitter/Facebook accounts.
Me too.
I got a error after the auto-update, but was able to access the dashboard, and the upgrade went through. However, there seems to be an issue accessing site stats widget and page.
I’m happy to see the Sharing feature in Jetpack. I haven’t tested it yet, but it looks nice and was simple to configure and display on my posts and pages.
Hi Bradley. We’ve just released a fix for the stats bug in 1.2.1. You should be able to upgrade now.
Thanks, Pete. I upgraded and really like that the bars in the graph now show what was published that day. Keep up the great work. It’s appreciated.
Was anyone else treated to the unsavory experience of having ALL modules automatically turned on when upgrading Jetpack? I usually only use a couple modules but after I updated I found they had all been activated (included Sharedaddy, ATD, etc).
The email subscriptions sure are cool, though.
Hi,
Any idea of the behaviour of Enhanced Distribution ?
On which service exactly does jetpack push the news ? Does it handle correctly the ping only when it’s a new article or everytime you make a modification ?
I was not able to find any information about this feature, i’d be happy if someone has !
It’s basically a “rich ping”, similar to what your blog sends to Ping-O-Matic already but with more information about the post. It’s similar in philosophy to this:
http://rssping.com/
Hello… Do you know were http://rssping.com/ pings too? The reason I ask is that I don’t ping via word-press, but instead manage it manually to prevent over pinging and spamming.
Personnaly i stopped using the jetpack ping features, my article were taking ages to appears on search engines, now i went back to WordPress Ping Optimizer which is using http://rpc.pingomatic.com and my article are in few hours only on Google
Aaaand Jetpack just knocked my site offline. Not sure why or how, but I logged in and was greeted with the floating blue Jetpack banner, asking me to authorize (something I’ve done previously). I clicked the button and my site started returning a 500 error, front and backend.
Boooooo!
Ah, bummer! Quick, get in touch with the Jetpack team: http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/?jetpack=needs-service
Hi, can I set the comments subscription up in a way to let it be a double-opt-in sign up? The german law wants us german bloggers to let the subscriber confirm his subscription.
As an example, I currently use Subscribe to Double-Opt-In Comments for this purpose:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/subscribe-to-double-opt-in-comments/
That’s how it works currently, you need to confirm your subscription!