How to Fix The WordPress Jetpack Notification Bug

Fixing the WordPress Jetpack “N” Key Notification Bug

If you spend much of your day in the WordPress admin area, you’ve probably run into this: press the N key while your cursor isn’t inside a text field, and Jetpack’s Notifications panel suddenly pops open — even though you didn’t click anything notification-related.

This is genuine Jetpack behaviour rather than a bug in your theme or another plugin: Jetpack binds a keyboard shortcut to the “N” key to quickly open its Notifications panel, and it catches a lot of site admins off guard, especially anyone used to typing “n” for something else while their cursor happens to be outside a form field.

If you’d rather not have this shortcut active:

• Go to Jetpack > Settings in your WordPress admin and look under the Writing or Traffic tabs for keyboard shortcut / notification options, as the exact location has moved between Jetpack versions.
• Alternatively, disabling the Jetpack Notifications module itself (via Jetpack > Settings, or with WP-CLI: wp jetpack module deactivate notifications) removes the shortcut along with the panel.

It’s worth knowing this is expected behaviour before you go hunting through your theme’s JavaScript for a phantom bug — it’s Jetpack’s, not yours.