- Install Jetpack and enable the plugin
- Enable Subscriptions (all 3 sliders) under Jetpack > Settings > Discussions > Subscriptions section
- Make sure JSON API Is enabled.
- Scroll to bottom of Jetpack > Dashboard Screen
- Click the Modules Link
- Find JSON API and make sure it is enabled
WordPress Follow Button
Over night there was a bit of a conversation snippet that came up among the mentors. Ammers from Backlog Crusader mentioned that she had noticed a number of the sites didn’t have the easy to use WordPress Follow button, in spite of being almost all wordpress based sites. The reason behind that is simple, because it is a missing feature if you roll your own blog using WordPress.org software. There is a plugin that is effectively must have software called Jetpack, that adds in a lot of the functionality you get with the managed WordPress, but not quite all of it. I had planned on doing a deep dive into plugins in another post but for now you will need that installed.
Ultimately this had been something I had in my own backlog of things to research. However stuff and things always got in the way and I forgot about it. This morning before sitting down to write the post I decided to figure this out. Truth is it is fairly simple but has a bunch of prerequisites for making it work. As you can see in my sidebar I now have a WordPress Follow button ready to go and we are going to show you how as well. I followed a guide on this blog to verify everything but I will also be walking you through the steps.