{"id":112775,"date":"2023-01-19T22:10:51","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T22:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpsimplefix.com\/?p=112775"},"modified":"2026-09-24T17:42:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T17:42:04","slug":"the-jetpack-plugin-is-junk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chkserv.com\/blog\/the-jetpack-plugin-is-junk\/","title":{"rendered":"The Jetpack Plugin is Junk"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Jetpack plugin is a pile of Sh*t! I’ve never<\/strong> recommended the plugin, and I’ve always told people to remove it as it’s bloat and will slow down your website. Go check out their 1-star reviews here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

From experience, it has an over reactive brute force protection feature, every time I go login to a WordPress site with this garbage of a plugin installed (even when the user\/password credentials are correct) it always 100% locks me out. Every time!<\/p>\n

Why?<\/h2>\n
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  1. Slows down your website<\/li>\n
  2. You don\u2019t need many of its features.<\/li>\n
  3. Feels like adware, keeps pitching their services.<\/li>\n
  4. (Like mentioned) it never lets me log in to the site, once brute force protection is enabled.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Making me pissed off, just writing about it…. <\/strong>Let’s continue.<\/p>\n

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    • It adds a lot of code to your website, it really will hog your CPU. Then you will be blaming your web host, thinking it’s their cheap servers. Most likely, it’s this plugin.<\/li>\n
    • Feels like an advertising board (Adware) it\u2019s constantly trying to promote their commercial services.<\/li>\n
    • I believe it logs information from your site, they may call it market research to improve the plugin.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      How to remove this junk?<\/h2>\n
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      1. Login to your WordPress site.<\/li>\n
      2. Go to plugins, deactivate and delete.<\/li>\n
      3. Not necessary, but clean out your database, it has some entries in the wp_options table and also elsewhere depending on what features you had enabled.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        The Jetpack plugin is a pile of Sh*t! I’ve never recommended the plugin, and I’ve always told people to remove it as it’s bloat and will slow down your website. Go check out their 1-star reviews here. From experience, it has an over reactive brute force protection feature, every time I go login to a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":120741,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[31,32,33,35],"class_list":["post-112775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plugins","tag-jetpack","tag-junk","tag-plugin","tag-remove"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chkserv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chkserv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chkserv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chkserv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chkserv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chkserv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136764,"href":"https:\/\/chkserv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112775\/revisions\/136764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chkserv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chkserv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chkserv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chkserv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}