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 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!
Why?
- Slows down your website
- You don’t need many of its features.
- Feels like adware, keeps pitching their services.
- (Like mentioned) it never lets me log in to the site, once brute force protection is enabled.
Making me pissed off, just writing about it…. Let’s continue.
- 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.
- Feels like an advertising board (Adware) it’s constantly trying to promote their commercial services.
- I believe it logs information from your site, they may call it market research to improve the plugin.
How to remove this junk?
- Login to your WordPress site.
- Go to plugins, deactivate and delete.
- 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.
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I agree; I built a site for a friend, who then installed Jetpack. They asked me to fix it when they complained about being locked out. So I began looking into it and discovered it was Jetpack; I uninstalled it and the problem disappeared. Never was a fan of it, definitely wont be using it or recommending it.
Spot on. It’s not recommended here.