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Latest Jetpack Social Updates and the Return of X Integration for WordPress Users

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In this episode host Derek Hanson looks at Jetpack Social with Devin Walker, product lead at Jetpack from Automattic. Devin shares updates to Jetpack Social including a redesigned user interface, enhanced account connectivity, and the anticipated return of X/Twitter integration following critical changes to their API pricing. They look into how Jetpack Social empowers collaborative posting for multi-author WordPress sites, improves customizability for cross-network sharing, and features like AI-powered image generation and Social Notes.

Derek and Devin also touch on the upcoming WordPress 7.0 release, Jetpack’s expanding AI capabilities, and what the future holds for mobile and agentic tools. If you’re passionate about the intersection of WordPress, social media, and automation, this episode has lots in store.

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Takeaways

Jetpack Social Improvements: Jetpack Social has received significant updates, including a revamped user interface for account connection and management. The most popular network, X/Twitter, is set to return as a premium add-on now that the API pricing has changed, making it viable for Jetpack again, with free users getting a limited experience. The collaborative aspect allows multiple authors and shared accounts, making it ideal for teams and marketing departments (03:29).

Customizable Social Sharing and AI Integration: Users can preview and customize social posts for different networks before publishing, with the ability to tailor text and image per platform. AI-powered image generation is available, drawing from post content by default, and improvements are expected soon with more advanced models (07:03).

Social Notes Feature: Jetpack Social’s Social Notes feature allows users to schedule and share content independent of WordPress posts, acting more like a direct communication tool for quick updates. This feature is still in beta and is expected to evolve, potentially including a calendar view for scheduled posts (09:45).

Link Engagement Optimization: Jetpack Social supports adding links as attachments (e.g., as a comment) rather than directly in the post, a popular request to improve social media post engagement based on user feedback and social algorithm behavior (12:13).

UTM Tracking Capabilities: Jetpack Social appends UTM parameters to shared URLs by default, allowing users to track engagement and traffic from social posts in Jetpack Stats or Google Analytics, though performance data from social platforms still needs to be accessed directly (13:50).

Jetpack Experience Unification Initiative: Jetpack is working towards a unified dashboard experience where all features—from Social to Protect to Anti-Spam—use a consistent visual design and WordPress component system. Future updates will focus on making interfaces more visual and data-driven, better integrating stats and analytics (16:50).

WordPress 7.0 Collaboration Enhancements: With WordPress 7.0, Jetpack will power a websocket layer for real-time collaboration, providing a more seamless experience than core’s built-in HTTP polling. This allows higher scalability and performance, especially for teams needing more than three collaborators (21:48).

Jetpack and AI Roadmap: Jetpack will upgrade its AI foundation, adding more advanced agentic flows (such as communicating with your site via Telegram or WhatsApp), and improving automation and cross-linking capabilities. Legacy features like spell check may be deprecated. Users will retain control, including a simple switch to disable AI features entirely (24:18).

Mobile App and Content Flexibility: The Jetpack mobile app is being emphasized, with improvements planned for Reader and overall workflow. The vision includes enabling content management and site updates through chat interfaces, making it easier to post or update content remotely (28:31).

Jetpack at Upcoming WordCamps: Jetpack will be present at WordCamp Europe and WordCamp Asia, showcasing new features like unified experience, AI integrations, and possibly demonstrations of agentic workflows (e.g., texting your site updates). Pricing and product simplification are also underway, aimed at appealing to both new and returning users (30:15).

Mentioned Links and Resources

• Jetpack Social (WordPress Social Media Integration) – Jetpack Social allows you to connect multiple social channels to your WordPress site, automate posting, preview posts, and manage team collaborations from a unified interface. 🔗 https://jetpack.com/social/
• Jetpack GitHub Repository (Contribute & Submit Feedback) – Jetpack’s open codebase lets users contribute issues, feature requests, and code enhancements directly via GitHub. 🔗 https://github.com/Automattic/jetpack
• Devin Walker’s Website (Speaker & Jetpack Product Lead) – Find more about Speaker C’s work, talks, and writing at devendvin.org. 🔗 https://devin.org/

Timestamped Overview

• 00:00 Previewing Jetpack Social updates
• 05:34 Sharing posts with Jetpack
• 07:24 Generating images with AI
• 11:25 Posting links effectively on social media
• 16:22 Improving Jetpack’s design and functionality
• 17:36 Reviewing Boost’s performance interface
• 23:37 Updating Jetpack AI features
• 26:11 Future of human-generated content
• 30:05 Upcoming updates and Jetpack improvements
• 31:21 Jetpack updates and event news

Derek Hanson:
All right, well, welcome everybody to Open Makers, Open Channels FM Production. We’re back for another episode today. And today we’re joined by Devin Walker, the product lead at Jetpack from Automatic. And we’re going to talk about a few things today. Learning a little bit more about Jetpack Social and some recent updates that I know Devin has been sharing about on his social media personally that he’s pretty excited about. And I know I use Jetpack Social, so I’m really excited to see this in action for everybody. And we’ll dive into upcoming wordcamps and a little bit of WordPress 7.0 which is releasing. So, Devin, thanks for joining us today.

Devin Walker:
Hey, thanks for having me. Appreciate it.

Derek Hanson:
Absolutely. Well, let’s just dive right into Jetpack Social. I know you put out on, I mean, I’m mostly on LinkedIn and I know that’s where you shared a recent update. Why don’t you just talk us through what the latest release is for Jetpack Social.

Devin Walker:
Yeah, so we did a lot of work on improving the user interface and experience and the way you connect accounts. Um, we’re also going to be bringing back X slash Twitter. I’m not sure if you saw, but recently the API just got a pricing change and we evaluated, you know, what it would look like to bring that back now that it’s not $50,000 a month.

Derek Hanson:
Yeah, right. Yeah.

Devin Walker:
And it, it’s definitely possible. So the team’s working on that right now. That was the, I think it was the most popular network being used. So unfortunately when that whole thing went down, we had to take it out of it. But when I saw that post a couple weeks ago that it was updated, I was like, okay, well, let’s, let’s start bringing it back. So that’s not in yet, but we do have significant improvements to just the way you interact and use the product. So I’m happy to show a little bit of that off. But if anybody wants to try it out, they’re more than welcome to download Jetpack themselves. But we can give them a little demo here too.

Derek Hanson:
Yeah, let’s, let’s definitely take a look at it. So, yeah, share your screen. And for anybody, like, not super familiar, Jetpack Social allows you to automatically post from WordPress to your social media accounts. And like you said, I don’t know if that’s Breaking news yet or not, but bringing the connection to X back, I know it was definitely a friction point for a long time once those, you know, API costs went up, you know, super high. So that, that’ll be really exciting for it to come back.

Devin Walker:
Yeah, we’re really excited to bring that back too. And luckily a lot of the plumbing’s already in place from previous integration with it, so it’s not exactly like just turning the lights back on, but we’ll give free users a little taste of what it’s like to use it. But it’s going to be like a premium paid add on for Jetpack Social because it is, it does incur a cost for us, but we’re, we’re not going to pass on a lot of that to the end user. So. Yeah, let me, let me share my screen. I’ll show you what Jetpack Social looks like. All right, so this is a current view of what Jetpack Social looks like in the release version. Keep in mind that in future updates we’re going to be consolidating a lot of these headers so they look very same between all the different products that we have here. But right when you get into Jetpack Social, here’s where you see your connected accounts. You can connect multiple accounts. You can select, select accounts as shared here. So for instance, Blue sky, you see how it says connect more because I already have my connection to my Bluesky account. But if you mark a connection as shared as well, it means like, you know, WordPress can have multiple admins, multiple users. When it’s a shared connection, that means multiple folks using your WordPress instance can, can share to that network. Makes it really easy for companies that have multiple marketing people working with WordPress to come in and all use that same one account.

Derek Hanson:
Nice.

Devin Walker:
So here’s the networks that we currently support, Instagram, business threads, all the really major ones next door. Even here’s Tumblr, that’s our own and Mastodon. And so yeah, most of them are covered. I don’t see TikTok on here. TikTok’s something that’s more video centric though, so it doesn’t really fit in this. But that would be interesting to think about how we could use TikTok more.

Derek Hanson:
Yeah, and just for our, just real quick for our audio only audience, what’s really nice is that there was like a nice modal that popped up that just showed all your accounts and it looked like real easy, just like click connect. And I really, really love that this is like a collaborative aspect of it that you can have multiple authors, multiple accounts. I know maybe I probably would have thought this is just for a personal connection. So this, this will work with, with multiple authors on the site.

Devin Walker:
Yeah, exactly. And then what you can also do is when for instance, if you connect LinkedIn, I’m a member, I’m admin of the Jetpack page because that’s something I’m responsible for, but also my personal account. So, so once you do connect, it’ll ask you, okay, do you want to share this? Which page? Or, or is this your personal too? So it makes it really easy. Some of the other social network plugins out there actually like don’t allow you or make you like set up your own apps for it because we use our WordPress.com services layer. I guess it’s kind of like a proxy where we have applications and so you don’t even need to worry about that complicated setup. It’s literally like just connect oauth in through your, your social network and boom, you’re, you’re ready to go. Cool. All right, let’s go into a post and this is just one I drafted with Jetpack AI really quick and let’s see how we would share this. So what there is, I’m not going to publish this, but there are pre flight checks. So like if you were click publish here. Once you do that, you’ll see another modal that pops up and it’ll say, okay, this is what you’re about to share. Double check. This is what you want to post to social media, right? But if you want to just look ahead of time, we have this preview and customize option here under this Jetpack panel. Click on that. This nice modal pops up here and you can customize the message per network, which is really nice because some networks have different formats, different links, different ways of talking to the audience. For instance, LinkedIn might not be the same as your Facebook post or your X feed. And so let’s just say, I don’t know, Arizona makes to the sweet 16. And which we can also do is generate a, an image here. Remove this one, you can select another one. You can generate one using AI and this is going to be improved as well moving forward. But this is, it’s not bad. Right now what we’re calling internally Image Studio is we’re going to bring that to Jetpack. It’s going to have a much more advanced like Nano Banana model to generate images with. I’ll just say basketball and see what it comes up with here.

Derek Hanson:
And by default the image generation is going to draw from your content initially. Is that right?

Devin Walker:
That’s correct, yes. Okay. Hopefully this gives us a good one. You know, it’s a demo, so we’ll see what, what it comes up with.

Derek Hanson:
Yep.

Devin Walker:
All right. You know, that’s okay. So we’ll just select that insert and here’s what that would look like on. This is actually Tumblr here. And then we can preview what it looks like on Blue Sky. And you see how it says same for all up here. Customize each. That’s where you would customize each social network. And here’s. You could customize the text and the length here. And then if you’re. You’re ready, you like it, how it goes, you can just close that one out. If, if I don’t want to share to one specific network for this post, I can do that as well on here. And here’s what a link preview is. So like, if you share this yourself, what is it going to look like on Google? On X, on Facebook threads requires an image to be set. Okay, well, I don’t have a featured image for this post, but I did. It would show on there. So that’s a nice preview there. And, and yeah, so that’s a little bit about what Jetpack Social looks like right there. And keep in mind that a lot of this is for free. And there’s as well, there is a Social Notes feature. So if you just wanted to share via your. Your site and schedule posts to social networks like. And it doesn’t have to do with any post. Exactly. Or content that you’re writing, you can do that. And it’s called Social Notes. This is a newer feature that is still in beta and we’re looking to improve this in the future. But it’s. It’s going to come after X. Like we got to do this in order. But it essentially creates a custom post type. You share content to that post type and then it’ll show. Share it out to social media, depending on your configurations there. So it’s pretty powerful. And, and then the social media image generator, like I said, the current version, pretty good. But all these layers that we’re putting on top of it, 15.7 is going to come out with those improvements. We’re going to continue improving Jetpack Social because it is one of the more popular products that Jetpack has.

Derek Hanson:
Yeah, that’s really cool. You were showing the link preview bit. There’s a way to customize even those. Like how those are sent out. There’s like just the image option or you can overlay text on the images. Are there improvements coming to that or do you think that’s pretty set or is that going to kind of roll in with the Image Studio stuff?

Devin Walker:
The image generation that’ll show behind the text that overlays whether you want it overlaid on the entire image. The bottom right, bottom left. Like you can customize where the text shows up and what the text says, of course, but the image itself behind it will be part of the improved AI generation that we’re coming up with. Like, I think it’s going to use the Nano Banana 3.5, but you can also select what model you want to use as well.

Derek Hanson:
Nice. So you might not have an answer for this now, but I’m curious what from a product perspective of something like Jetpack Social that is automatically sending a link from your WordPress site to these other social networks. I know I have found from experience that typically if I just straight have a link in my social media post, it performs less than if I were to make a post and then add that link as a comment to the post. Is that something that is like ever you’re thinking about that ever? Is that, is there a way to kind of like circumvent that for, for creators?

Devin Walker:
Yeah, there’s actually an option in Jetpack Social. I’m not sure I have it right in front of me, but it’s essentially add link as an attachment, which by attachment it’s like the first comment of your post. So that is a feature of, of Jetpack Social because you’re right, like if you just a lot of times they’ll perform less well if you have just that straight up link like right in the first post. Right. So that, that was a popular request prior to me coming on board. So the, the, my predecessors have implemented that already.

Derek Hanson:
Nice. That’s awesome. Well, great. I, if, if you haven’t tried Jetpack Social, I, I use it on my blog, Social Notes. I’m glad you touched on that. That’s another one that I’ve not been as regular using, but I know I was, you know, an early adopter of that and I like that you can just like quickly, you know, just get something out. It’s much more, you know, streamlined. It’s not like the full blown post editor. It’s like just straight text. So it is much more like you’re just, you know, putting out a, a post on X or something.

Devin Walker:
Yeah, I’d love it if we had like a calendar view for that where you could actually kind of see and schedule posts similar to a buffer experience. So that’s where we want to go with it.

Derek Hanson:
Do you see any of this tying into Jetpack Stats at all where you might be able to see some of like engagement and traffic from the posts that go to different platforms and how that’s tying back to your site?

Devin Walker:
Yeah, I believe there’s UTM configuration. Yeah. So what you can do is append UTM parameters to the URL here. I’ll just share this and having that tie back into, into your Jetpack stats or your Google Analytics that that’s how you would do that. So if you have this option enabled, which by default it is, then the link that anybody that comes back to your site from that will, what it won’t track is like the performance on the social network itself, which you’re gonna have to go to whatever social network to, to view that. I’m not sure how we could tie that in but that, that’d be really cool if we could actually pull in like performance of your posts.

Derek Hanson:
Yeah.

Devin Walker:
But as far as getting people back to your site, you know, if you’re a store and you’re sharing things like that’s some important data that you’d like to make sure performing well.

Derek Hanson:
Yeah, the UTM creator is I think like a really like small quiet feature of Jetpack that is, that is really, really valuable.

Devin Walker:
Yeah, I’m glad you highlighted that.

Derek Hanson:
Well, so that’s where it’s at now and you sort of highlighted that like a, a dashboard refresh possibly coming soon. Do you want to touch on that briefly and like what, what’s some of the like feedback you’ve heard from Jetpack users and, and what we can expect here in the, in the coming weeks and months.

Devin Walker:
Yeah, well, we’re definitely optimizing Jetpack with every release to making sure that, you know, the, it’s as fast as it can be, not only on the admin side, but on the front end of your site. But then what I’ve heard also is like, you know, Jetpack feels like more like a bundle of separate products rather than one cohesive product that works well and feels cohesive. So what we’re doing is ensuring that all the modules or features, right, Social, Protect, anti spam, they all follow similar design language. Right. And we’re going to be using a lot more of the WordPress component system to build out our interfaces. Each interface is going to become a lot more visual. For instance, if you’re looking at Jetpack Social, you saw, you saw basically all the connected networks, those were more like settings, right? It’s like, more like I need to connect my accounts rather than. Well, why don’t you show me like which some, which posts have been shared, Perhaps show me some of those clickbacks from the UTM data pulling from stats. Like give me more of a dashboard or a visual view of what the feature is doing and performing on my site. Boost is a good example of one that has an interface like that Here I’ll just show Boost real quick where it kind of has that visual of like what’s the performance of my, of my site, right. You can see my desktop score is pretty good. My mobile view is not so hot. I’ve got a lot of stuff on the front end. You can see here’s like more of that header that I’m talking about here where it’s got the little Jetpack logo boost and it doesn’t have like Social does where it’s got its own little logo and it’s over here. So we’re going to make these much more similar between the two. So you can see Boost and the. My Jetpack view has very similar header structure. So consolidating the headers, consolidating the footers, then making all our dashboard pages or our feature pages feel like more visual and telling what that feature is doing, giving you the data behind it.

Derek Hanson:
That’s awesome. I think this excites me as a daily Jetpack user and I’m sure this will excite a lot of people that or using Jetpack and you know, possibly it could draw people back to, you know, if you’re, if you used it in the past and Some of these things were maybe either a hindrance or a blocker for you to really adopt it for yourself or for a client. This seems like a really, really solid direction.

Devin Walker:
Gonna feel fast, feel like a single page application, more like it’s gonna feel a lot more like WordPress because we’re going to be using a lot of those WordPress component systems in here and, and earning that second look. The third look is really important. What I’ve learned from sharing a lot of these updates on LinkedIn on social media is that people are willing to give it another look if they see that it’s improved over time. Jetpack’s, you know, it’s a 14 year old product, right?

Derek Hanson:
Yeah, it’s been around.

Devin Walker:
Right. So I’m excited to have that impact. That’s why I’m here. I want to give Jetpack a really kind of my own touch and a new life.

Derek Hanson:
And it’s still one of the most open code bases in the WordPress plugin ecosystem. Right. Anybody can go to the GitHub repo and submit issues, feature requests, I mean anything. It’s all there for you to look at.

Devin Walker:
Absolutely.

Derek Hanson:
So you hinted a little bit about using more WordPress components and I know I prefaced at the beginning. WordPress 7.0 is going to release here pretty soon and if you haven’t been following along, there’s a lot of significant updates with that. And I’m curious, among all the things that are going to be releasing in 7.0, where does jetpack fit in with that upcoming release? Are there specific features that we’re going to see, like rolled in to Jetpack or like modified or changed?

Devin Walker:
Talk.

Derek Hanson:
Talk through the upcoming release for us.

Devin Walker:
Yeah. So right now, it’s an interesting time that we’re talking right now because real time collaboration is going in 7.0, but then I saw that potentially it could be bumped. I don’t want to talk about like I know where, whether I’m assuming it will be in 7.0. Right? Yeah, I just saw recent news that it might not, but so the way that real time collaboration works out of Core is with a technology or something called HTTP polling. It’s kind of hard to say that, but you know, it’s. It essentially will use the browser to say, okay, well is this person still here? Where are they at in the document? It’ll pull every five seconds or so and it works. It’s just not like sort of like a Google Doc experience like a lot of people are used to. Where Jetpack comes in is it’ll power a websocket layer. So when you enable real time collaboration via our automatic infrastructure WordPress.com services layer, then your site will use WebSockets and it’ll scale much, much better in the real time experience. Real time collaboration experience will be more akin to what you’re used to with other applications.

Derek Hanson:
So we’re talking more so like a performance gain by much, much higher performance gain.

Devin Walker:
Yeah. And then Core, I think will cap it at three collaborators. If you don’t have like your host isn’t enabling that for you on the host level, or you’re not going to if you’re not using Jetpack or perhaps there’s another plugin out there that facilitates the same functionality.

Derek Hanson:
Great. So it sounds like. So of all the things coming up in the WordPress 7.0 or maybe future release, real time collaboration seems to be the thing that Jetpack is going to be like the best thing to like, you know, help enhance that experience.

Devin Walker:
Exactly. Yeah. That’ll be. That’s kind of like the headliner for 7.0 and, and jetpack, in my opinion.

Derek Hanson:
Yeah. What about anything. I know there’s a really, you know, huge pivot to bring in the AI connectors into the next release. I know Jetpack has had its own AI product for, I mean, a while now. I mean, you already showed us the image generator that, that has been around for, for quite a while and there

Devin Walker:
were 20, 23 y. Yeah, yeah.

Derek Hanson:
So jetpack is not new to AI, but where do you, where do you see Jetpack and AI in this, you know, this like the next, you know, five to six months or even immediately. Where, where do you see it going there?

Devin Walker:
That’s a really good question. I was just talking to Matt about that last week and there’s a lot of great discussion around where it’s going to go. Right now what we have to do is do a little bit of housekeeping on it because there’s been so much great work done with the AI team here at Automatic that they’ve created a much better foundation than what’s currently in Jetpack. So what’s happening right now is the developers are taking out the current plumbing, for lack of a better word, and putting new, a better foundational layer in there. From there, we’re going to evaluate some of the current AI capabilities and see if we want to keep them. One, one thing that is in the current Jetpack AI that I think is going to go away is the spell check and kind of like the language tools that are in there. I’m not sure they’re so valuable anymore and I’m not sure people are getting the best experience from that. So while that might be going away, other things, like more perhaps agentic flows, like you could have something within the omnibar at the top that you can always click on and rely on to collaborate with your website. You probably don’t even need to be logged into your website. Like, why couldn’t you just use Telegram or text message or WhatsApp to communicate with your website and say, hey, how many visitors did I get to this post last week? And what Jetpack will do is it’ll make connecting to your site via MCP like model context protocol really easy. Like one toggle button on boom connected to cursor connected to chat GPT and then from there you can have create, read, update and delete capabilities based on the permissions you set. Like the. There’ll be a lot of different controls that the admin can set, whether they even want folks to be able to delete or. Or to update posts. That. That’ll give you a whole lot of power to automate blog posting, spell checking, cross linking, SEO stuff really. That’ll open the door up quite a bit for you. And then of course we’ll have a kill switch too. So for anybody that doesn’t want to use AI, which there’s a lot of people out there. There are, yeah, we’ll have a one button, one switch. Boom. It’s when you turn it off, it’s off and it’s not. It won’t be there.

Derek Hanson:
Yeah, everybody can start to develop their own like badge. Like this is like human only, you know, site human only content. I know that’s, you know, that’s something that started to surface through this like wave of agentic content creation for sure. And you know what, as you were talking about Jetpack Social notes earlier and this sort of future of being able to send a WhatsApp Telegram voice message, how cool is that to be? I could be out on a walk or at a kid’s sports game or an event or whatever and an idea pops into my head. You text that message and it’s going to my site. And then WordPress can continue to be that hub for all of your content for the Internet and Jetpack Social, really weaving it and getting it out into your other networks, which is really great. But then you still have ingrained that are control. I like that. You know, I am not hugely on social media like personally, but I definitely have, you know, I spend most of my time on LinkedIn. So if I’m cross, you know, posting anything, that’s where it’s going. But if I have stuff that I want to go other places, that. That freedom is really, really, really powerful for users.

Devin Walker:
Absolutely. And I always, like, use my, my chef buddy as an example. Right. He has three restaurants, three different menus. They change all the time. His site’s on WordPress right now. He has to email this agency we use to update. It usually takes 24 to 48 hours. If I told him, hey, you can just text. You can text your website and. Yeah, and, and tell it, hey, update menu to have new pricing for this burger. Right. He will think it’s some sort of magic that’s happening and we’re almost there. I mean, we can potentially whip something up pretty quickly with that.

Derek Hanson:
I like that. I like that we didn’t really plan this, but I’m curious, where does all this potentially fit with the Jetpack mobile app? Like, if we’re kind of like moving into this wave of agentic tools and communicating through text messaging people that are users of the Jetpack mobile app, where’s. Where does that fit into the picture in all of this?

Devin Walker:
Yeah. So, you know, you can maintain one or multiple sites through Jetpack, the mobile app. And what you would do is just select the site that you want to get into and perhaps there’s a chat icon or chat bubble or something similar to what you’re used to with Telegram or beeper or what have you. You would be directly chatting with just that one. Maybe there’s a better way to do it where you wouldn’t even have to go into that one site. You can just have a chat for all of them and specifically say which one. But mobile is going to be a, a major emphasis of this. And, and the mo. The Jetpack mobile app. I’m glad you brought up. It’s so great too. Lots of good work going into that. A lot of. A lot of improvements are coming to Reader as well. And so you can get your content out there a lot better within, across the networks.

Derek Hanson:
Nice.

Devin Walker:
I love it.

Derek Hanson:
Well, we talked about where you could join the Jetpack project if you’re curious to either contribute or offer feedback, like online or through GitHub. I think something that people are getting more and more excited about, like this past year and probably really going into the future is getting back together in person. And I know wordcamps are like the flagship events and it. It looks like Jetpack will be at WordCamp Europe coming up in June, what can folks expect to see or hear or do if they come meet Jetpack at WordCamp Europe?

Devin Walker:
Yeah, we can. We’re also going to be at WordCamp Asia as well. I personally won’t be there, but there will be a lot of other people there in my stead. Um, but I will be in Europe and that’s early June, so by that time you can expect a lot of this, what I’m calling Experience Unification initiative. Essentially, when you’re clicking through Jetpack, it feels fast, it feels cohesive, it feels like you’re using one, one product that fits really well to WordPress and it’s not kind of like odd sections that are sort of upselling you or saying, you know, there’s some interesting things in Jetpack that were going to improve quite a bit. So a lot of that work will be out and released. 7.0 will be out and released and I hope to show some of the cool demos. Like what we were just talking about text messaging your site or DMing it. So I think that would be a super powerful one. We’re gonna have some Flash videos and we’re gonna be doing some nice work to the website, making sure that looks a lot nicer too, starting with the homepage and simplifying the pricing quite a bit as well.

Derek Hanson:
Ooh, nice. That sounds like a little bit of a tease. That might get a lot of people really intrigued, like oversimplifying the product, simplifying the pricing. I can see that becoming very, very appealing too. Long time and future Jetpack users for sure. Okay, well, check out the jetpack booth and WordCamp Asia April 9th through 11th. You can meet Devin personally if you’re at WordCamp Europe, which is June 4th through 6. And yeah, we’re be really excited to see these next few months to look for all these changes across Jetpack. Where can folks follow your work and get connected with you? Devin?

Devin Walker:
Yeah, you can check out my website, devendvin.org I’m also an ex at Interwebs. I N N E R W E B S and I also run the San Diego WordPress meetup too. And we meet monthly. So if you’re ever in Southern California, feel free to stop by that. It’s sponsored by Jetpack, so we always say something a little bit about it. Yeah, but other than that. Yeah, I usually go around to all, all sorts of Word camps and stuff like that. So. Yeah.

Derek Hanson:
Nice. Awesome. Devin, thanks so much for joining and for everybody listening and watching. Look forward to seeing you in the next episode of Open Makers. Be sure to if you’re watching on YouTube, please like and subscribe and help us get the word out on WordPress. Thanks everyone.