October Wrapup
Another month, another wrapup. What the heck have the slackers here at WordPress.com world headquarters been doing in October?
- We actually documented our features
- Redid our “hot” algorithms to promote people further down the list more.
- Introduced some new themes: Unsleepable and K2, Tarski, Chaotic Soul.
- Expanded avatar use some more
- Domain mapping and registration
- Tried out a promo video
- Introduced an unlimited user paid upgrade
- And then surprised everyone on Halloween with a new dashboard, which has attracted more comments than any other blog post, ever.
On the other hand you guys were busy as all get out. October stats: 66k blogs, 69k users, switched themes 314k times, 1.57 million posts, 241k pages, 758k comments, 3,911 support requests, 329k file uploads, and around 68.2 million pageviews. (Not counting admin section, images, CSS, RSS feeds, etc.)
Nov 6th at 10:51 pm
Amazing sir. Thanks for all your work!
Nov 6th at 11:05 pm
good times at wordpress.com…
congratulations and thank you for everything you keep doing.
Nov 6th at 11:15 pm
My theme review series will be covering Unsleepable, K2, Tarski, Chaotic Soul next. Post due out in the next 24 hrs.
Nov 6th at 11:18 pm
Thanks for all your hardwork Matt and WP, we love it!
Nov 6th at 11:24 pm
Whoa…that’s a lot of stuff we did…
Nov 6th at 11:25 pm
Also, how many registered domain names?
Nov 6th at 11:25 pm
Wow, just wow. Let’s wait for next month, or erm… next month to see what happens next!
Nov 6th at 11:39 pm
too many things, good work on this month boys
Nov 6th at 11:45 pm
first?
nice,always good
Nov 7th at 12:12 am
Ab Fab!
Nov 7th at 12:14 am
wow
Nov 7th at 12:14 am
Good stuff, although I do wish the new themes were implemented with a little more care or a note that said warning: beta test for 48 hours.
Now can we get more widgets?
Nov 7th at 12:18 am
I don’t know how you manage to do it all. You guys are accomplishing loads here. Keep it up!
Also what are the overall Akismet stats for every site on wp.com? That would be interesting
Nov 7th at 1:03 am
^^
it’s very happy to be part of it!
all the best to wordpress!
Nov 7th at 1:23 am
Good good good!!!
Nov 7th at 1:29 am
I like the new dashboard. I never would have seen this post without it.
Nov 7th at 1:41 am
The domain mapping and registration was a great birthday gift. A good friend paid for it for me. Thanks to her – and to you guys – my blog has it’s own domain, which is something I’ve always wanted since I started blogging.
THANK YOU!!!
Nov 7th at 1:43 am
I’m waiting for something new this month
Nov 7th at 1:45 am
great, keep up the superb work.
Nov 7th at 1:49 am
Wow busy month! Good Job folks – thanks for everything
Nov 7th at 1:56 am
Always wrapup well at this time of year
Nov 7th at 1:59 am
Nice month. I love WordPress keep the hard work!
Nov 7th at 2:32 am
You guys have been busy! Domain mapping has been my favorite addition to the growing features list, and new themes are always good.
Keep up the good work guys!
Nov 7th at 3:12 am
Thanks for your hard work!
Nov 7th at 3:40 am
Wow… we were busy. XD
Nov 7th at 3:43 am
When you guys next introduce new themes, could you provide a screen shot of how it may look like, in the blog entry about it?
Nov 7th at 4:01 am
I think this new feature of compiling your accomplishments should be at the top of the list of good things you did, along with that dashboard
Nov 7th at 4:25 am
And then surprised everyone on Halloween with a new dashboard, which has attracted more comments than any other blog post, ever
Have you tallied up the “for and against new dashboard” for those comments yet? My impression was that there are more negative than positive comments. If so, I hope that you either reinstate the old dashboard or address the comments soon.
keep up the great work.
Nov 7th at 4:26 am
Way to go, WP team!
And, of course, I thank the little people!
Nov 7th at 4:29 am
Ha! Those figures make me dizzy.
For once I can say that I changed themes 10 times in October but stuck with the old one. 
As usual WP rawks in Oktober!
Nov 7th at 5:25 am
Looking forward to more new themes.
Nov 7th at 5:29 am
October was Rocking at WP! (Which month isn’t
) /
P.S: The ‘New Dashboard’ Posts URI still reads new-dashbaord
Nov 7th at 5:30 am
wow awesome!!.. WP ROCKS!
thanks for all the good things that you do us.
cheerz from Colombia, south america.
Nov 7th at 5:32 am
8 features including 4 themes? y’all are terrible slackers!
Nov 7th at 5:58 am
exhausting list!
Nov 7th at 7:04 am
Latest theme review is out covering: ChaoticSoul, Tarski, Unsleepable, K2-Lite
Nov 7th at 7:04 am
A job well done! Congratulations to WP.com team! Keep it up!
Nov 7th at 7:34 am
Hi,
It is nice to have all these huge figures around WP. You and guys always growing with innovative ideas. Keep my wishes to growing…
Thanks and Wishes from my heartfelt wishes..
Best Smile,
Zeezat
Nov 7th at 7:41 am
October came out to be quite productive month with some really nice new features and services … kudas for that.
Nov 7th at 8:02 am
Keep up the good work.
I still enjoy blogging with wordpress.
Nov 7th at 8:07 am
Wow ! Thats some impressive stats Matt.
And the features page is cool !
Nov 7th at 8:29 am
wow! Looks like everyone has been busy.:)
Nov 7th at 8:32 am
Is there any other reason why we all love WP.com? Thanks guys for everything.
Nov 7th at 8:43 am
When @ Dashboard I always check for new news, it’s always fun to read. And the monthly wrapup is always fun as well. You are achieving so much.
Nov 7th at 8:56 am
So, all in all a quiet month then? hehe
Way to go Matt and WP. You guys are out back bone, without you guys … well we would probably still blog somewere but it just wouldnt look as good or be the same, keep up the good work.
I didnt realise we made so many posts and did so much.
Nov 7th at 8:57 am
fantastic month!
Nov 7th at 9:47 am
thank you matt —->>>> in English
دست شما درد نكند (تشكر) مت —–>>>> in Farsi(persian(Iran))
ِDankon matt ——>>> in Esperanto !
Nov 7th at 9:51 am
Suggestion?
i would love a features that automatically put a url on a specific word. Eg. in a post where i am talkin about WordPress, automatically the word “Word Press” becomes a link.
It is very slow to select the words everytime and put the sane url all the time.
thanks!
Nov 7th at 10:54 am
Can’t wait for more from the best..
Nov 7th at 12:11 pm
Nice Work WP. I will register a domain name for my blog.
Nov 7th at 1:16 pm
Yawls doin’ a great job. Keep up the good work. Thanks.
Nov 7th at 2:37 pm
cool stuff
Nov 7th at 2:38 pm
That’s a great list of improvements. Keep up the good work.
Nov 7th at 3:37 pm
awesome!!!
Nov 7th at 4:31 pm
D’you ever sleep?
Nov 7th at 5:40 pm
thanks guys!
Nov 7th at 5:49 pm
That sure seems like a lot of activity going on around WordPress, but what is the increase factor as compared to the previous month?
Nov 7th at 6:13 pm
This is wonderful. Such a great tool for the internet. keep up all the good work. I am looking forward to seeing more in the future.
Nov 7th at 8:35 pm
I hope you have lots of fun doing this or it would be very hard work. Thank you and all the BLOGGERS for making this a very interesting site.
Nov 7th at 9:52 pm
The posts are double at the comments.
We need more comments!!!!!!
Nov 8th at 3:25 am
It just keeps getting better.
Nov 8th at 4:04 am
Good job guys! I love your motivation, devotion and willingness to constantly improve.
Nov 8th at 7:30 am
A great month – love the new dashboard (except for the “Mature” blog that jumped onto the fastest growing blog list) and the new stats per post is great.
Nov 8th at 4:48 pm
Wow, impressive list!
Looking for further improvements?
It would be great if you could improve the preview function. The size of graphics and photos is rather distorted and doesn’t correspond to the actual site. Thanks a lot in advance.
Nov 8th at 4:54 pm
Wp is the best
Nov 9th at 2:37 am
Ya’ll are great. Lovn wordpress.
Nov 9th at 4:54 am
well done, matt… awesome!!
:D
Nov 10th at 9:12 am
wordpress is cool. congrats.
Nov 11th at 12:12 am
You guys are awesome ……. now if we could only get China Red as a theme. I have begged and pleaded I am at my wits end (I Kid). However China Red would make a great theme.
Nov 11th at 7:17 pm
Awesome work people. Just one request…can we have some more themes..
Nov 11th at 8:49 pm
im at the point where i wish i wouldn’t have bought server space.
Nov 13th at 3:00 am
Want more widgets!!
Nov 13th at 10:32 pm
Thanks October Matt!!
Nov 14th at 11:13 pm
Thanks for everything – we’re so happy we left the Dread Pirate Blogger and come over here. We love WordPress!
Nov 15th at 3:59 pm
Thanks for everything. WP rocks!
Nov 16th at 1:57 am
exactly my thoughts divakitty..
Blogger sucks BIG time. It was a breeze transferring the posts to wordpress. Awesome work people. Many Many thanks again
Nov 17th at 7:31 am
Thanks you so much. I love WP.
Nov 18th at 8:14 pm
Grear work team.. Keep it up. Hoping similar surprises..
Nov 19th at 3:42 am
well wordpress … im glad im here!
Nov 19th at 8:27 am
wooho for wordpress!
Salut.
Nov 19th at 8:29 am
Ps. WordPress rocks my socks off!
Nov 20th at 1:28 am
real cool…
thanks!
Nov 20th at 12:08 pm
that’s why i love publishing my daily reflection and daily rice here!
thanks wordpress!
Nov 30th at 9:34 pm
You guys make it easy. Even for those of us new to the blog block. Seeing great ratings out there on the net for wordpress. Crack of thunder, bolt of lightning for wordpress.
Dec 3rd at 6:38 pm
Just a thanks for a job, and a site and service well done!