Trying to connect Jetpack
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Hey guys-
I’m trying to turn on Jetpack’s social sharing feature. I have the plug-in installed, but when I select ‘Connect your social media accounts:, its take me to a WordPress.com login.
My site is currently hosted at Siteground…
Thoughts?
Please advise, and thanks.
WP.com: Unknown
Jetpack: Yes
Correct account: Unknown -
Jetpack is asking for a WordPress.com account, which is completely separate from how you log in to your WordPress site.
Since Jetpack brings WordPress.com features to your self-hosted WordPress.org site, it requires a WordPress.com account, much like how a plugin which brought Facebook features to your site would require a Facebook account.
So, when Jetpack asks for your WordPress.com account, give it the
bradbmccormickgmailcomaccount you’re currently logged in as here.Almost all of Jetpack’s features make use of heavy processing power (Photon the image CDN, related posts indexing), heavy database usage (stats), or require connections to third-party systems that can be very complicated to setup by yourself (Publicize’s automated sharing to social networks, email subscriptions, etc).
Jetpack takes care of that all on WordPress.com’s server cluster so your hosting provider doesn’t suspend you for using excessive resources.
In order to do any of that, it needs a WordPress.com account.
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