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Jetpack
Company blog · jetpack.com/blogwebsecurity
Jetpack is the company blog at jetpack.com, writing about web and security. Since 2016, 18 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (10) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for its January 2022 post on backdoors in WordPress themes and plugins, which commenters cite as a list of affected items, and for its WordPress revisions guidance. Jetpack's own job postings also appear.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 10 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Jetpack keeps your WordPress site secure, fast, and growing, with real-time backups, malware scanning, speed tools, and AI that works on your site.
Most-linked posts?
- /2022/01/18/backdoor-found-in-themes-and-plugins-from-accesspress-themes/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-01-23
- /blog/wordpress-revisions/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-10-14
What Hacker News says?
source, instead of this blog spam: https://jetpack.com/2022/01/18/backdoor-found-in-themes-and-...
Comment linking /2022/01/18/backdoor-found-in-themes-and-plugins-from-accesspress-themes/
on “WordPress themes, plugins backdoored in supply chain attack”Submitted Multiple vulnerabilities in WP Fastest Cache plugin as a story · 127 points
HN discussionA few hops to get to the list of known backdoored themes and plugins: https://jetpack.com/2022/01/18/backdoor-found-in-themes-and-...
Comment linking /2022/01/18/backdoor-found-in-themes-and-plugins-from-accesspress-themes/
on “WordPress themes, plugins backdoored in supply chain attack”Submitted Jetpack's Personal Plan for WordPress as a story · 35 points
HN discussionAutomattic (WordPress.com, Jetpack, WooCommerce, .blog, Polldaddy, Gravatar) | Search Wrangler | Full Time | REMOTE We're a distributed company with employees in >60 countries. Help us influence search and recommendations for the 30% of the Web that runs on WordPress. We're looking to take our Elasticsearch infrastructure up a few notches. A bit on what we're working on: - We've launched multiple applications for se…
Comment linking /features/design/elasticsearch-powered-search/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2018)”Submitted The End of Twitter Auto-Sharing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionParse.ly | Python Data Engineer or Infrastructure Engineer | Remote | Full-Time | https://parse.ly Are you a Python programmer based in North or South America, interested in large-scale data processing (terabytes per month, petabytes in our archive), and making use of massively-parallel computing architectures, such as those behind Spark and Dask? Do you have any existing interests in real-time streaming data, such…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2021)”Submitted WordPress plugin Jetpack releases fix for 8-year-old vulnerability as a story · 1 points
HN discussionOne of Matt's complaints was that WPE disabled revisions...which JetPack (owned by Automattic) suggests to do in order to improve performance. https://jetpack.com/blog/wordpress-revisions/ I ran servers for an agency with ~1200 WordPress installs on Azure VMs, and I disabled revisions on every one of the sites. How is that different? Did I fiddle too much, despite it being in official documentation on how to do so?…
Comment linking /blog/wordpress-revisions/
on “WordPress.org's latest move involves taking control of a WP Engine plugin”Submitted Jetpack AI Assistant- AI Content Writer by WordPress. Is It Bad or Good? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI can't speak for blogging usecases, but for agency websites we would disable revisions and a bunch of other things for every single wordpress installation(even the blog posts that show up on the main admin area) Heck even Jetpack, Automattics official plugin, recommends limiting revisions: https://jetpack.com/blog/wordpress-revisions/ Lastly, Wpengine never fully disabled post revisions, they just limited it to 2-3.
Comment linking /blog/wordpress-revisions/
on “Is Matt Mullenweg defending WordPress or sabotaging it?”Submitted Jetpack Search: Free for Small Sites and Free Trials for All as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSearching for “jetpack” in a fresh —no cookies— browser session returns: • https://jetpack.com/ • https://twitter.com/jetpack • https://wordpress.org/plugins/jetpack/ Which are the canonical URLs for JetPack, by Automatic. KidkArolis will have a hard time promoting his project. --- My suggestion for KidkArolis is to rename his project to one fo these: • “ConvePack” considering the slogan “Webpack made more convenien…
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on “Show HN: Jetpack – Webpack made more convenient”Submitted Severe Vulnerability Fixed in UpdraftPlus 1.22.3 as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> Is it simply because no such product exists? It's definitely possible! You could self-host WordPress, then use the Jetpack plugin, which can support premium content options ( https://jetpack.com/support/newsletter/paid-newsletters/ ). You could also do this with WordPress.com ( https://wordpress.com/blog/2020/06/04/premium-content-and-pa... ) I'm sure there are even more solutions, or you could roll your own -- Wo…
Comment linking /support/newsletter/paid-newsletters/
on “Substack Writers Concerned as Subscriptions 'Plummet' Due to Follow Feature”Submitted Jetpack Turns 10 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI wouldn't say "less populated". This phrasing yields vast green pastures and the odd pioneer who could just drive a stake anywhere and claim acres upon an acres for themselves. I don't think that's a correct comparison. The Web isn't a physical commons that suddenly got crowded. It's a mesh of hypertext and interlinked pages that just keeps expanding infinitely in all directions. How information gets linked is a re…
Comment linking /support/publicize/facebook/
on “The Second Golden Age of Blogging”Submitted The New Jetpack Search Architecture as a story · 1 points
HN discussionA link to the article on Jetpack's website: https://jetpack.com/2022/01/18/backdoor-found-in-themes-and-...
Comment linking /2022/01/18/backdoor-found-in-themes-and-plugins-from-accesspress-themes/
on “Backdoors discovered in 40 WordPress Themes and 53 Plugins”
