One of the benefits of knowing really sharp bloggers is they notice and warn other bloggers right away of changes that are detrimental to their blogs.
When business coach and online project management consultant Vernessa Taylor noticed that the subscribe to comments function Ileane usually used was replaced by an email from WordPress.com, they discussed the issue and realized the latest update of JetPack Stats – a WordPress provided stats plugin – was the culprit.
Vernessa feels the same way I do about what WordPress, Themes and plugins should and should NOT do and high on my list is the belief that they should NOT change how my blogs work without notifying me FIRST and giving me the option to refuse.
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Automattic made JetPack 1.2.1 override the existing Subscribe to Comments plugin most serious bloggers we know use and hijacked control over where they subscribe. Vernessa’s solution was to delete JetPack altogether.
Every serious Internet marketer knows the money is in your list –
So taking away control of your list is a VERY SERIOUS matter!
Content Strategist Doc Sheldon reads Vernessa’s blog, so he published a heads-up post of his own about the Automattic Jetpack Plugin called “You Crossed the Line! You’re FIRED!” where he suggests switching to JetPack Lite as an alternative remedy.
This is NOT the first time Automattic has decided to make changes
to WordPress stats without giving bloggers any heads up in advance.
Not acceptable, Automattic. Bloggers need to be thinking about what we will do if even more egregious issues arise. If anyone has the skills (or knows someone who does) to go back to the last WordPress version before Automattic took control of it and bring an independent version since that fork up to speed do let us know?
Has anyone switched to the Google Analytics Alternative Piwik ? I would really love to get off all things “Borg” and use independent, more trustworthy alternatives.
Piwik – if you’re listening – I’ve been asking about you for a long time now. I’ve been hoping you’d see I am serious about promoting your solution to our blogging collaborations.
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Twitter: droidguru
June 10, 2012 at 5:47 am
I don’t know why but Jetpack breaks my website every time I activate it.
It throws some parse error which is very disgusting and disappointing!
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I think this is like injustice with bloggers. I completely disagree with the case.
Twitter: allaboutmexican
April 5, 2012 at 4:16 am
Im trying Jetpack and is still on the fence on what it really does..any opinions on this?Friends say i must be careful
Twitter: allaboutmexican
March 30, 2012 at 4:06 am
thanks for sharing this,,i have gotta safe gaurd our listing now..i have learn a valuable lesson today,Growmap!
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hi there…
did the automatic jetpack can control hijack commend without permission? i don’t thing so….
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I did not know about this regrettable plugin ever before so thanks for notifying the fact that is behind this. I think this is like injustice with bloggers. I completely disagree with the case.
Twitter: addisonskanks
December 19, 2011 at 12:06 am
That is so unethical! Thanks for this post and for warning us about this matter.
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Twitter: mikegreenfan
November 30, 2011 at 4:20 pm
I was wondering about that! I run a bunch of WordPress blogs and noticed that happened on all of them, thanks for pointing it out!
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Twitter: marketsecrets
November 27, 2011 at 11:49 pm
So thats why a new field saying “Subscribe to new posts by email” appeared seemingly out of nowhere underneath my comment form when I already had a subscribe to comments plugin?!
Well I just went into Jetpack admin and simply deactivated that particular Subscription widget as there is an option..
But I do understand why this is considered unethical because if they can do that then they can basically take over any blog they want or even worse destroy a blog :0
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