Jetpack 8.9: Take Donations, Capture Email Subscribers, AMP integration, and More

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Jetpack 8.9 shipped on September 1 and it shows why the plugin continues to be the premier way to take a WordPress site from good to holy smokes! Several new features are packed into the release, but a few really stand out.

Take donations with a new block

The first is donations, and a quick demo of how easy it is to drop a donation form into a page is going to excite anyone who has ever had to cobble together multiple third party scripts and tools to get something like this on a site.

That’s right — it’s as easy as any other block and it connects directly to your Stripe account when you upgrade to a Jetpack paid plan. Non-profits are sure to love this, but even if you’re a plugin developer looking for a way to collect “tips” in exchange for your work, you’ll get a lot of mileage out of something like this.

I’d drop a donations block right here to show you, but if you’re so inclined (😍) we have a MVP supporter thing set up that handles that, which is powered by WooCommerce Memberships.

Collect newsletter signups and automate email marketing

Another feature that stands out is a newsletter signup form. Instead of relying on another plugin for form functionality and another to connect the form to an email newsletter service, Jetpack handles it all with a new block that not only collects subscribers, but integrates directly with Creative Mail by Constant Contact.

That means you not only take signups directly from your site, but you get a way to pull WordPress content and WooCommerce products into emails that support all kinds of automatons, like scheduled sends, action-based triggers, and multi-step marketing journeys. It’s a lot of power in a single package!

It’s worth noting that the newsletter form is in addition to a growing number of forms that are built right into Jetpack, including RSVP, contact, registration, feedback, and appointments.

AMP-ify your content

There isn’t a whole lot of details on this feature, but it certainly warrants attention. Automattic and Google have been working closely together the past several months to ship the 2.0 version of the official AMP plugin for WordPress.

The plan is for the Jetpack team to write up a detailed post sometime soon that thoroughly outlines the integration. Just a guess? Perhaps Jetpack blocks will natively support valid AMP markup in way that maintains the functionality while meeting AMP’s performance standards. We’ll see!

Jetpack 8.9 is the latest release in what’s proving to be a rapidly evolving one-stop shop for the most common and useful WordPress features that normally would require plugin overload. The past year alone has seen a slideshow block, on-site instant search, built-in customer relationship management and security monitoring — and those are just the highlights! You really can’t go wrong with Jetpack if you’re looking for the most powerful set of features in one place. Plug it in, purchase a plan, and you get access to literally dozens of features and enhancements for WordPress without having to hunt them down, one-by-one. Hey, that’s why we use Jetpack around here at CSS-Tricks… and love it!

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