Ben
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WordPress Jetpack Admin Backup: For When There are Problems
I’m a big fan of the Jetpack WordPress plugin. I support it in all of my WordPress themes, and have even contributed to its development. However it’s not perfect, and I have recently had some issues with the new React powered Jetpack admin not letting me change site settings.
I have been getting the error:
Notifications failed to activate. SyntaxError: Unexpected token < in JSON at position 0
Now as far as I can see the issue seems to be with the new admin loading resources from http – when using a https site. However the team at Jetpack support have been unable to reproduce or fix it – they’ve been able to see the issue on my site (I’ve given them admin access to a site with the issue) however they have been unable to diagnose the problem, so it still happens.
Then one of the support agents gave me a quick tip. The new React powered admin is likely what’s causing the problem – so why not use the old settings admin? It’s still there in the plugin!
So, if you’re having a problem changing the settings on your Jetpack powered site you can go to the following url and manage the settings as you used to:
/wp-admin/admin.php?page=jetpack_modules
I’ve now used this on two separate sites and it’s worked great. Now I just hope they don’t remove the old admin, at least until the issues I’ve been seeing have been resolved.
I too and a big fan of JetPack. Across all of my sites it is one of the first plugins I add. However, I appreciate that everyone likes to move forward and improvements need to be made. I actually prefer the old stats view compared to the knew one that sporadically loads up. With so many features I’m not sure which ones have over taken previous trusted plugins I already use, so I’m possible doubling up.
My main uses for it are site stats and the remote Image hosting.
Thank you so much for sharing this, it works!!
Jetpack is a big advantage for blogs, but if your hosting isn’t enough wordpress go slow.
Thank you so much for sharing this, it works!!