Currently, Jetpack has 36 total modules or features that come packed with it. Not everything is useful for everyone. But there are a number of common features that are applicable for most website setups. Some of us prefer to use other plugins but why load up a WordPress website with additional plugins and lines of code when you can do the same thing with something that comes pre-packed? It might even have an impact on the overall load speed of your website.
That is why, Jetpack features should be used as far as possible. It is because they have been created by the company behind WordPress and they should know the best for WordPress. Additionally, Jetpack modules are simple to configure and implement. They’re for people who want to add the basic functionalities without having to check and uncheck a large number of options.
So, when it comes deciding what Jetpack features to enable and the ones to disable, you can follow my list. These are the Jetpack modules that I’ve enabled and disabled. You can use my recommendations as per your fit.
| 1. Beautiful Math | Deactivate | Most of us don’t need to display mathematical formulas. |
| 2. Carousel | Deactivate | Not a photo blog or don’t plant to have any galleries. |
| 3. Contact Form | Activate | You need a simple contact form. |
| 4. Custom CSS | Deactivate | Only users with CSS experience can add additional style information for modifying their theme. |
| 5. Custom Content Types | Deactivate | Only for advanced users who can add functionality to their theme. |
| 6. Enhanced Distribution | Activate
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Yes, we want to ping search engines instantly after posting so that our content is cached quickly and search engines know who published it originally. |
| 7. Extra Sidebar Widgets | Deactivate | Do not need those Gravatar or Facebook like boxes etc. |
| 8. Gravatar Hovercards | Deactivate | Not that much interested in Gravatars. |
| 9. Infinite Scroll | Deactivate | Themes usually don’t support it. |
| 10. JSON API | Deactivate | Only for developers. |
| 11. Jetpack Comments | Deactivate | The default commenting system is good enough. |
| 12. Jetpack Single Sign on | Deactivate | Don’t need people to sign into the blog. |
| 13. Likes | Deactivate | Would prefer adding Facebook likes over this one. |
| 14. Manage | Deactivate | Do not have multiple blogs that I want to control from the same area. Individual admin area is fine. |
| 15. Markdown | Deactivate | The visual editor does it better. |
| 16. Mobile Theme | Deactivate | Most themes are responsive these days. |
| 17. Monitor | Activate | Yes, to know when the site goes down. |
| 18. Notifications | Deactivate | Don’t see the need to get notifications about comments. |
| 19. Omnisearch | Deactivate | The site search is enough. Don’t need to search inside the admin area. |
| 20. Photon | Activate | Great for speeding up photos and site load speed. |
| 21. Post by Email | Deactivate | Prefer the post composer over email posting. Don’t need to publish remotely. |
| 22. Protect | Activate | Protects sites against brute force attacks used for obtaining admin or user passwords. |
| 23. Publicize | Deactivate
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One click solution to sharing the link of post over multiple social networks. People can deactivate it, if they want to make their own custom social posts with pictures. |
| 24. Related Posts | Activate | Great for simply displaying related posts below the content. |
| 25. Sharing | Activate | Allows visitors to share to social networks. Great for traffic. |
| 26. Shortcode Embeds | Activate | Embedding YouTube and other content has never been so simple. |
| 27. Site Icon | Activate | Yes, I want a favicon and my theme doesn’t have that feature. |
| 28. Site Verification | Activate | Easy tool for verifying in Google webmasters. |
| 29. Spelling and Grammar | Activate | Awesome proofreader for your posts. |
| 30. Subscription | Activate | Great technique to notify and make visitors come back. |
| 31. Tiled Galleries | Deactivate | Unless a photography website, not many of us require a photo gallery anymore. |
| 32. VideoPress | Deactivate | Paid subscription required. |
| 33. WP.me Shortlinks | Activate | Shortcuts are great for sharing in social media. |
| 34. Widget Visibility | Deactivate | Great feature but don’t have to set visibility to such detail. |
| 35. WordPress.com Stats | Activate | Nice to see stats easily in the admin area. |
| 36. VaultPress | Deactivate | Requires payment. We can back-up our site using some other plugin. |