Wow! Jetpack, a new service via WordPress.com, will let you “supercharge” your self-hosted WordPress.org blog with a lot of features that are only available to the .com users!
Here are the available additions at launch:
- Gravatar Hovercards: A business card like user interface for people who leave comments.
- WordPress.com stats: Powerful and simple to understand statistics for your site.
- Twitter Widget: Make your social media activity on twitter part of your theme.
- Shortcodes: Quickly add movies, images and more with a single line of code.
- Shortlinks: Instantly create an easy to copy mini-url for any post on your site.
- LaTeX: Use the famous markup language to quickly create beautiful mathematical expressions and equations.
- Sharedaddy: Your readers can easily share your posts via email or their favorite social networks.
- After the Deadline: Your writing will improve thanks to this artificial intelligence based spell, style, and grammar checker.
Yikes! This plugin looks to be amazing.
Dustin W. Stout says
Have you implemented this yet? If so, where?
Tom McFarlin says
I’ve implemented this on one of my personal sites.
Eric J says
Looks like they are going to have some payfor things coming soon.