April Wrap-up
I almost forgot, but here’s a wrap-up of April’s features and stats.
We had some fun features launch:
- People were surprised by our New Ranking Algorithim.
- We brought online a ton of new servers.
- Added Neo-Sapien .
- Slideshows!
- A Box.net Widget.
- Contact Forms so your readers can easily get in touch.
- A way to bounch randomly around your site.
- Zounds! Clouds and Drop Downs!
April stats: 108k blogs, 121k users, switched themes 570,847 times, 1.58 million posts (136k via XML-RPC), 578k pages created, 2 million comments, 4,056 support requests, 783k file uploads, and 186 million pageviews. (Not counting admin section, images, CSS, RSS feeds, etc.)
According to Quantcast we’re the 40th most popular site in the US and Alexa now puts us in the top 100. Whew! Thanks guys. 
May 10th at 4:37 am
Ha… That stats given look great, Matt
Thank you for all of your attempts and supports.
Have a good day..
PS. Is it 4.30am there? Earlyyyyyyy morning!
May 10th at 4:51 am
It is a pleasure working with WordPress. No wonder so many people are switching! Thank you for making life easier for us. All we needed was a good tool!
May 10th at 5:06 am
Those stats also include self-hosted standalone WordPress Blog / Websites?
That’s a very good figure considering WP’s entry into the Blogging arena. The Open Source movement really clicked its way. The only thing I’m much eager to know about, is how far can WP actually go? Each month it brings in something amazing as a plug-in, making things much easier. Allt his for Free!
Its amazing!
May 10th at 5:13 am
WP is really great with it’s awesome CMS, but i personally feel lack of javascript support restricts us from using some external sites services also it forces the WP to give that features in some other form ( also it’s increasing the WP feature list
)
May 10th at 5:27 am
Thank you WordPress!
May 10th at 5:28 am
So when does myspace buy you out… lolz… photobucket, then wordpress, then the world!
May 10th at 5:43 am
Congratulations WordPress! You guys have the best free blogging service I have ever used.
May 10th at 5:46 am
Matt this month was wonderful and made us feel better after March
Nice to see such good developers and hardworking people.
Thanks and greetings fly to all WordPress Team.
May 10th at 5:52 am
A great month overall Matt. I loved the stats on April 1st. They really woke me up, LOL.
Keep up the good work!
May 10th at 6:15 am
these are really magnificent stats.
keep on being with us.
congratulations
May 10th at 6:20 am
Kudos for all the excellent updates – keep up the good work guys.
May 10th at 6:21 am
Thanks for helping us excel in what we do by excelling in what you do. Bring on May!
May 10th at 6:43 am
Well done!
May 10th at 7:29 am
It’s been a good month for making good things better. I especially enjoyed the contact form and the drop downs. I only wish I could have the drop down function for my blog roll as well…
May 10th at 7:30 am
A great month. My favorite is the random post. Keep up the good work and continue to surprise us.
May 10th at 7:33 am
Oh, I missed the new Contact forms until now. Thanks for reminding us. Awesome.
May 10th at 7:51 am
Terrific work, and thanks for making this a great space to be part of.
May 10th at 8:00 am
This is a great place to be. I like the features, and the template designs and I’m always grateful for how quickly my support questions have been answered.
May 10th at 8:10 am
wow.. 40th most popular website in US.. congrats guys!
May 10th at 8:51 am
April… A great days!
Continue the great work!
May 10th at 8:53 am
Thanks Matt.. really wordpress has been the best blogging environment I have ever used..
You guys rock !!
May 10th at 9:28 am
Thanks for everything
WordPress makes blogging really easy, not complicated like some other sites I’ve tried.
May 10th at 9:35 am
We added a few of Aprils new features to our site. SLIDESHOW – The slideshow feature was the perfect tool for us to share pictures from the Brooklyn Hootenanny with our readers. CONTACT FORM – And the contact form was a brilliant idea. While we offer our readers ways to contact us directly, it’s nice an easy for them if there is a contact form to fill out rather than having to login to an email account. CLOUD – With a gazillion tags, the cloud feature is a nice way to display only a few top notch categories for our site. YOUTUBE – I know the html text wasn’t introduced in April, we be first used it then and have added a few videos too. – THANK YOU. Really enjoying your service! Thanks for offering such top notch features and service.
May 10th at 9:42 am
a fine press, a fine crew. thanks.
May 10th at 9:53 am
wordpress.com is amazingly simple to use. love the stats feature!
May 10th at 9:59 am
Just love the stats plugin, thanks.
May 10th at 10:14 am
great to be with wordpress
May 10th at 10:15 am
oh, forgot to mention tat wordpress is getting cooler and cooler
absolutely love wordpress
May 10th at 10:41 am
Nice to know about that… WordPress is amazing!
May 10th at 11:07 am
As always, WordPress makes it wonderful to blog — thanks for everything you do!
Aneil
May 10th at 11:25 am
Hey, that’s cool, Matt!
May 10th at 12:16 pm
It’s been a great month and thank you for the new ‘desk toys’.
Keeping it Odd and Macabre
amm
May 10th at 12:25 pm
Who doesn’t love WordPress?! Are you sure you’re only at 40th?
Well done guys
May 10th at 12:30 pm
You’re very busy and creative. Thanks for your hard work.
May 10th at 1:15 pm
As always I’m content with WordPress and its tools – keep the good work up! Looking forward to any new stuff in May!
May 10th at 1:27 pm
ok, then add google analytics
thnx
May 10th at 2:04 pm
Nice one! Thanks for the update. Still loving blogger now that I am celebrating my first anniversary.
May 10th at 2:10 pm
“bounch randomly round your site” – now that sounds like much fun!
Congrats on this, the other new features, and the increasingly impressive numbers.
May 10th at 2:12 pm
WordPress is awesome. Thanks for the BOX.net widget!
May 10th at 2:17 pm
Great month. Thanks for all the effort. I created my wordpress.com blog so I could just go ahead and blog and not worry about software. It’s a pleasure to use!
May 10th at 2:43 pm
Genius and fame. It’s all we ask….
May 10th at 2:44 pm
wow, strategic and convincing
good work guys
May 10th at 2:51 pm
One thing I noticed is that my writings at wordpress.com are indexed faster by google than writings in my other blogs. WordPress.com is the easiest, cleanest, fastest blog services on Earth. (I have many, and I mean MANY, blogs. Trust me on this.) You guys are the best.
May 10th at 3:00 pm
40th? You guys should be higher than that! Seriously, WP is waaaaayyyyyy awesome! =) keep up the great work!
May 10th at 3:06 pm
Decent work guys, keep it up.
May 10th at 3:13 pm
amazing.
May 10th at 3:55 pm
All roads , even cul de sacs lead to Word Press..Congrats Guys.
May 10th at 3:57 pm
THaNkS! YOU’re SuPEr!
May 10th at 4:00 pm
Yeah, never feel wonder of that things, wordpress is very Interesting to try and learn.
May 10th at 4:28 pm
Gracias, im trying to use all the benefits!!!
May 10th at 5:00 pm
Great work!
I say we bring back theme Friday. I miss that.
May 10th at 5:45 pm
Yeah, you guys do a fantastic job. WordPress is by far the best blog tool on the web… IMO.
May 10th at 6:10 pm
Word-X-Press works like Quark-X-Press; however, completely different and that might be the key to its tremendous success! Personally me, I am a typical wordpress guy that does not need to be X-rated in an X-calliburated way at all. X-cuse me, that was meant to be a comment in order to be a comment.
May 10th at 6:13 pm
Top 100? wow thts amazing!
WORDPRESS RoCkS!
May 10th at 6:57 pm
WOW!!!
AWESOME!!!!
WordPress ROCKS!
Thanks so much y’all!!!
Oh, btw, I just uploaded WordPress 2.1 (wordpress.org) to a new blog of mine – and it’s AWESOME!!! Thanks!!!
May 10th at 7:09 pm
I continue to enjoy my time in the WP community! Right On!!
May 10th at 7:39 pm
Cool! I totally agree with your opinion! Catch ya later!
May 10th at 8:13 pm
Nice work guys!
May 10th at 9:03 pm
This all sounds good. It should be mentioned that major, major issues occurred during the month. Unexpected server downtime, some due to WP administrative errors, huge problems with widgets, problems with editing and posting during the month, as well as concerns about WP administration inattentiveness to users’ frustrations about those and other problems. And as of today, if you read the forums, you can see that some of these same problems persist.
May 10th at 9:41 pm
WOW!! Congratulations for all for Top100!
May 10th at 9:41 pm
Don’t thank us
You’re the team that make WordPress what it is… great!
Thanks to everyone and kind regards
May 10th at 10:07 pm
Indeed it is proof that WordPress is far and away the best blogging platform around and blogging (still!) shows no sign of slowing down in the near future which is great.
May 10th at 10:29 pm
i’ve been using WP for around 3 weeks not..and I’m LOVIN IT
you guys rock !
May 10th at 11:54 pm
Very impressive!
May 11th at 2:56 am
I will add my thanks. I’ve had nothing but wonderful, positive experiences, with the best support ever.
WordPress is GREAT!
May 11th at 4:36 am
Great to see that things are constantly improving. My only hope is that you will find a way to improve the analytics available to the individual blogger. As they are now, they leave much to be desired.
May 11th at 7:41 am
Matt, please add technorati widget, it’s cool
May 11th at 8:07 am
Nice. I am enjoying my stay here in WordPress. More and more are using WordPress here in the Philippines. Keep up the good work! I hope WordPress would be able to support Javascript and object such as Flash files soon!
May 11th at 9:32 am
Congratulations, amigas…er, I mean, amigos!
May 11th at 12:44 pm
Congrat WordPress.com! My http://wordpress.simplysiti.com reach more than 1,000,000 hits a few days ago. Thank WordPress.
May 11th at 1:25 pm
I’m one of those who changed to WP in april….and I just wanted to say thanks, you guys make it all easier and nicer. Thanks for your work
May 11th at 1:59 pm
April has been quite a productive month at WordPress!
May 11th at 4:43 pm
So awesome!!
Congrats!!
May 11th at 7:04 pm
Keep up the good work! Spanish forum works great for all Spanish users. WordPress.com is the best place for bloggers.
May 11th at 9:19 pm
Wow, great stats! Congrats and thanks for all the hard work.
May 12th at 5:24 am
Excellent!!! Congratulations!!! and a round of applause for WordPress!
May 12th at 9:59 am
Congratulations Guyz!
May 12th at 11:25 am
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May 13th at 8:34 am
the clouds and drop downs are the best!
May 13th at 5:27 pm
cOwAbUnGa!
May 14th at 12:28 am
Talking about themes, I’d love to see a “theme preview”. See how MY BLOG would like with specific themes. Maybe this lack of a preview be the reason to so many theme changes, uh?
Thanks for WP! Keep up the goog job, guys!
May 14th at 5:30 am
Thanks for the hard work.
By the way, you’ve got an h in the word bounce that you probably want to remove.
May 14th at 8:54 am
May 14th at 2:24 pm
I know there are many features that wordpress offers.
I wish to make use of them all soon!
May 14th at 10:54 pm
This is my first try. I heard about blog in Good Morning America this morning. who ever has a suggestion on how to use it let me know. Thank you in advance.
May 14th at 11:42 pm
I just started blogging in April, and I’m so happy I chose WordPress! Very easy to navigate – I was up and running in no time! Thanks!
May 15th at 3:59 pm
wordpress DESERVED it.
keep up the good job
May 15th at 9:25 pm
thanks you so much, I think it wonderful….
May 16th at 6:58 am
Btw, Thanks for installing the new Advanced Toolbar too!!!
I simply love it!!!!
May 16th at 9:50 am
Fantastic
May 16th at 11:00 am
I love WordPress!
May 16th at 3:45 pm
WordPress is a great blog.
May 17th at 7:25 pm
Well I just revived my WP blog after a hiatus and i must say that things are looking sunnier already….please also include a “mail this” link after every post….it makes it easier for readers to make their friends read stuff posted on the blog too in an easy way!
May 18th at 6:29 pm
Thanks. Good work WordPress.