WordPress.com link fails during plugin setup
Linking WordPress.com or Jetpack fails during setup, with REST API status errors and invalid JSON responses.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
4 public reports · first reported 21 May 2026 · last reported 12 August 2026
What's going wrong
Site owners report that linking their WordPress.com account to the plugin fails at the first step.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
- The full summary.
- The products the 4 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
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