How to Activate Jetpack Premium Free in my.pressable.com

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The order of activating Jetpack on a Pressable hosting plan is apparently important! I have attempted this for about 20 different websites running on Pressable, and each time I needed Pressable support to help guide me through it and even then, it took 4-5 attempts. Until this time, Jess from Pressable provided some instructions that worked for me the first time I tried them! (I still had to guess at a couple of the steps, taking what felt like an optional leap of faith) but I chose wisely or luckily or it didn’t matter and it worked!

Step 0 – DO NOT PAY FOR ANYTHING EXTRA. KEEP YOUR CREDIT CARD PUT AWAY.Ā  šŸ™‚ Pressable plans include a free Premium level Jetpack subscription, it comes with your Pressable hosting. These steps will help you activate that plan and give you access to backups and more via Jetpack.Ā  Thereā€™s a momentary step (Step 5) where it might appear that you need to pay. DO NOT PAY.Ā  šŸ™‚ It is just the way this activation process works between Jetpack (Automatic the company behind WordPress & Jetpack)Ā  & Pressable the hosting company.

Step 1 – in wp-admin install and activate jetpack plugin

Step 2 – Click the Green (as of jan 2019) Activate button for jetpack inside the plugin in wordpress

Step 3 – This will take you to WordPress.com‘s Jetpack activation process. You will need a WordPress account (free user id) and once you have that and are signed in, then

Step 4 – ā€˜Approve the connection between Jetpack the plugin and your personal WordPress.com user account

Step 5 – This will take you to a payment plan option. There appear to be 3 BUT Thereā€™s a fourth below the three. Choose the fourth option, the ā€˜Freeā€™ plan (later you will get the $99 plan as part of your Pressable service, but first we connect with the Free plan and later get the Premium one upgraded by Pressable. (this is a bit confusing, just do not put a credit card anywhere and you will be good!

Step 6 – After clicking Free it takes you back into your WordPress Admin jetpack dashboard

Step 7 – Login into my.pressable.com

Step 8Ā – go to the domain plan that you are working on (you may have more than one website with Pressable, pick the one that relates to the steps above

Step 9 –Ā  Find the Activate Jetpack button in my.pressable.com and click itĀ  (If this is a new account, it may be a (different) green button at the top of my.pressable.com.Ā  There may be a second Activate button lower on that page. They do the same thing. You only need to click one of them. Do that – click Activate!

Step 10 – Confirm you now have a Premium Jetpack plan from Pressable – In your wordpress admin area, click on Jetpack and click on the ā€˜My Plansā€™ tab. It should now show you that your ā€˜planā€™ is the Premium plan. (If you entered a credit card anywhere, you made a mistake!)

If Jetpack doesn’t show the new plan…

First, clear the cache on your browser and refresh your wp-admin page to check again.

If it still doesn’t show up, you may need to send in a help request or chat with Pressable support. Even though the steps above are working for me much more often than before, there may be other reasons to get help!

Video Transcripts
okay so I’m trying to get jetpack set up
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on a pressable installation I always
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have problems with this and just Nunez
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from principal sport sent me this
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explainer so far this is actually the
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best explainer I’ve seen and I’m gonna
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test it to see if I can follow the
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instructions and make it work so first
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step and just to point out the jetpack
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in the my press valaria has not been
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activated yet jetpacks not set up
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WordPress either so her instructions are
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to go into WordPress and follow the
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connection details there and then after
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all of that is done go into my pressable
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and hit activate so I think maybe I’ve
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done it in both directions before but
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I’m not positive maybe I’ve done it in
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Reverse so we’re gonna give this a try
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so coming in here we’re in WordPress
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admin I’m gonna set up jetpack and I’m
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recording this to help capture the
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process of casing it goes wrong now I
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have a wordpress.com account till it
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always connects automatically to that
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the instructions didn’t say to use any
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other account I just said to connect and
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so I have this I’ve had it since like
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two thousand seven or eight or something
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like that a long time so I’m gonna hit
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approve it’s gonna authorize the
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connection for this website and
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initially it shows this now premium is
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included with pressable WordPress
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hosting but since it hasn’t been
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activated yet it still shows the amount
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that would be charged I’m not going to
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pay for that I’m not gonna put my credit
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card in there so I’m going with start
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with free now just a reminder these were
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the instructions go here and follow the
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connection details I think I’ve done
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that but I’m also guessing as I do
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that so maybe I’m Gus incorrectly maybe
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I’m guessing incorrectly
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okay so load it up here get my pressable
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going in there okay scrolling down going
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to settings for this account and there’s
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the activate button there at the top and
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I believe there’s a second one down here
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I don’t know if it matters which one I
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push press it says press the green
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activate button this is the only green
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one so I’ll stick with that
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so I activate there and says it’s
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activating now in my experience this
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doesn’t necessarily mean that it has
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worked I often see it activated from my
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principles perspective but not
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necessarily in WordPress and the past
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have had to talk to principal support
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multiple times every time I’ve ever done
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this so far that’s on about 28 different
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accounts to get it to actually work and
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that usually takes multiple efforts per
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account so I’m really crossing my
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fingers and hoping that this works and
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this process this step whatever so I’ve
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got the spinny thingy going on seen that
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and it’s now says jetpack premium was
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successfully activated again I’ve seen
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that before
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and it doesn’t necessarily mean that it
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was activated and you can see down here
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pressable is partnered with jetpack to
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provide you a jetpack and its activated
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on your site this one says activating so
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just out of curiosity I’m going to
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refresh this page the thing at the top
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goes away this now says activated so and
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I’ve seen all this before and it’s and
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still after seeing that it didn’t
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necessarily work I’m gonna come back in
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here and to WordPress
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let’s see this is a relatively new site
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to WordPress we’ve migrated it over from
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a different completely different type of
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system custom system what we got here
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looks like it’s still connected as me
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look at the plans maybe try and find
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something that shows premium running is
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what my goal is and it sort of looks
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like this may have worked my current
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plan which is the premium one the middle
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one the $99 one and I think it has
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worked so I think it’s worked I’m
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impressed
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this is the first time I’ve had
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instructions to follow that worked and I
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think it’s key instructions to follow
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that’s a big improvement so I’m happy
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about that I’d love to see those get
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worked in over here with some little
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nice tip thing or an instruction guide
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or something like the instructions that
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they have for adding a domain name but
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this is progress I’ve been looking for
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this progress for a long time Thank You
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principal team thank you jetpack team

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