I think It’s JetPack’s Image Accelerator

Update: Automattic’s support team have resolved my issue. Thanks to them for patience and diligence.

The support staff at Automattic didn't believe me when I told them that the September 8th update of JetPack broke something on my website. This morning I noticed that most of the images in my blog post were not displaying. I followed the troubleshooting tips recommended by Automattic. When I disable JetPack, as I have done now, all my images load. When I enable JetPack but leave all other plugins disabled, none of my images load.

I will leave this post on my website so that the staff at Authomattic can see that clearly images load and display from my server when JetPack is disabled. I think there is an issue with communication between the JetPack Image Accelerator software on my host and the WordPress.com servers. It seems live support is not an option even if I am paying for the service.

Links to the most recent posts from the last month for testing purposes.

Two JetPack updates in the same week? Why? What went wrong? Did you rush to fix it and broke something else?

Tech support suggested that I may have deleted items from my media library. All images remain as they were when I uploaded them to the server.

I've left JetPack and all other plug-ins enabled but disabled the JetPack Image Accelerator.


Before installing JetPack.

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JetPack is installed. All remaining plugins are enabled.

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Enabling the JetPack Image Accelerator.

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Website images don't load when JetPack Image Accelerator is enabled.

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Remove JetPack completely. All other plugins remain enabled.

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Website images load with JetPack completely removed.

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Re-install JetPack and disable all other plug-ins.

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JetPack Image Accelerator is disabled.

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Website images load.

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Enable JetPack Image Accelerator.

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Website images do not load.

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Blog readership is dropping

My blog readership has been falling for several years. It was even lower in 2018. I am not sure if the cause is my gradual shift away from "how-to" style posts to more of a focus on photo blogging. Perhaps it's time to return to a weekly schedule of one opinion posts, one technical post and one photography post. Perhaps I can remove the beer check-ins.

I summarized the JetPack Annual Reports for Island in the Net from 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015. Automattic did not release a report for 2016 and 2017. Pity. However, I used information in my WordPress dashboard to get at some of the information.

Blog stats for 2011.

This blog was viewed about 96,000 times in 2011. In 2011, there were 13 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 69 posts. The busiest day of that year was October 13th with 531 views. The most popular post that day was Untitled.

This blog had 33,000 views in 2012. In 2012, there were 186 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 540 posts. The busiest day of that year was December 27th with 279 views. The most popular post that day was HDR photography with Raspberry Pi and gPhoto2.

This blog was viewed about 62,000 times in 2013. In 2013, there were 324 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 908 posts. The busiest day of that year was January 3rd with 929 views. The most popular post that day was HDR photography with Raspberry Pi and gPhoto2.

[code]https://jetpack.com/annual-report/5508687/2014/[/code]

This blog was viewed about 37,000 times in 2014. The busiest day of that year was December 18th with 3,325 views. The most popular post that day was HDR photography with Raspberry Pi and gPhoto2.

This blog was viewed about 22,000 times in 2015. The busiest day of that year was January 6th with 1,574 views. The most popular post that day was HDR photography with Raspberry Pi and gPhoto2.

This blog was viewed about 23,271 times in 2016.

This blog was viewed about 21,607 times in 2017.

Jetpack Publicize connections, Sharing buttons, and Post Kinds plugin

Jetpack Publicize connections, Sharing buttons, and Post Kinds plugin (GitHub)

When I enable the "Publicize connections" and "Sharing button" feature of JetPack and use a Response Kinds, the Summary/Quote does not display.

When I enable the "Publicize connections" and "Sharing button" feature of JetPack and use a Response Kinds, the Summary/Quote does not display.

With "Automatically share your posts to social networks” or "Add sharing buttons to your posts” enabled.
Expected behaviour

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