February Wrap-Up
February was a good month for us, production-wise. We brought you a new theme, a new and improved LiveJournal import tool, and threaded comments. Elsewhere, Automattic launched BuddyPress, a set of WordPress MU plugins that transforms a WordPress MU install into a social network platform. We also launched the I <3 Blogging design contest, in partnership with Infectious (which ends on March 30).
Here are the stats from February:
- 351,904 blogs were created.
- 385,033 new users joined.
- 4,577,845 file uploads.
- 2,926 gigabytes of new files.
- 776 terabytes of content transferred from our datacenters.
- 7,964,018 comments.
- 6,436,398 logins.
- 1,022,236,821 pageviews on WordPress.com, and another 948,586,171 on self-hosted blogs (1,970,822,992 total across all WordPress blogs we track).
- 1,039,553 active blogs and 19,015,974 active posts where “active” means they got a human visitor.
- 1,348,400,618 words.
More stuff:
You subscribed to 641,150 comment threads, using our new comment subscription feature.
There was a whopping seven WordCamps in February: WordCamp Higher Ed North East, WordCamp Paris, WordCamp Germany, WordCamp Miami, WordCamp India, WordCamp Education Vancouver, WordCamp Denver. (The next WordCamp is WordCamp Hong Kong, on April 5.)
Indie video game development studio, Platinum Games, joined WordPress.com VIP.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution switched to WordPress MU.
Singularity University went live, powered by WordPress.
Email Newsletter

March 4th, 2009 at 1:40 am
wow! great job wordpress team!
March 4th, 2009 at 2:18 am
Numbers never seem to go down eh? =D
March 4th, 2009 at 2:38 am
I like the new theme..!..:)
Thanks a lot..
March 4th, 2009 at 3:38 am
aw, just in time with the Wrap-up
March 4th, 2009 at 3:39 am
waow… congrats to you… WP
March 4th, 2009 at 3:50 am
great.
March 4th, 2009 at 3:55 am
great job team wordpress and all the members!
March 4th, 2009 at 4:09 am
Another great month for WordPress! I’m really enjoying threaded comments. Makes conversation much easier!
March 4th, 2009 at 4:36 am
Excellent job!
Any hints on what’s coming for March??
March 4th, 2009 at 4:58 am
Great as always…
Thumbs Up…!
Asad
March 4th, 2009 at 5:24 am
yay wordpress!
Honestly, its THE best bloghost I could find so far.
Rock On!
March 4th, 2009 at 5:51 am
2Thumbs Up 4WP
March 4th, 2009 at 6:27 am
O.o
comment subscription, good feature.
March 4th, 2009 at 7:08 am
So it was a good month in overall
March 4th, 2009 at 7:10 am
good stuff!
March 4th, 2009 at 7:52 am
Your photo is funny …
March 4th, 2009 at 7:57 am
It’s been my best month with over 15 000 views.
March 4th, 2009 at 7:58 am
good leraning and teqmwork.thanks
March 4th, 2009 at 9:08 am
wooww!!
March 4th, 2009 at 9:20 am
awesome stats
March 4th, 2009 at 9:56 am
Nice stats
March 4th, 2009 at 9:59 am
These figures are great – and your job is even greater. Thank you very much
March 4th, 2009 at 10:50 am
Nice…. Anyways 776 terabytes of data transfer is a staggering figure for one month. Great work, keep it up!
March 4th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
i’m still lost…but i’ll catch up…fast…or i die trying…to breathe the cyberair…lol
March 4th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
Stream of camps conducted. Host of techniques introduced.Few institutions joined you. On the whole .the shortest month of the year was an eventful month for WordPress.
March 4th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
Indeed a great job! Glad to be a part of the adventure!
March 4th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
hmm .. great .. im new here lets see …
it looks better than blogger ..
March 4th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
good
March 4th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
Special thanks for threaded comments
March 4th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
Definitely enjoying my WordPress experience. The guys in the band and myself appreciate all your efforts.
March 4th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
the best in february is threded comment feature and my b’day
March 4th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
I hear you enjoyed your trip to the Taj Mahal…
March 4th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
this is an impressive number: 1,970,822,992
March 4th, 2009 at 4:19 pm
Excelent Job as always, WP.
March 4th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
WP is the best! Luv ya WordPress!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
March 4th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
awesome, keep on!!!
March 4th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
Given the connections between WPMU and WordPress.com, should we expect some BuddyPress goodness on WordPress.com? The timing would be quite good.
March 4th, 2009 at 4:50 pm
You are amazing me (and everyone) whenever we come to see the monthly wrap-up. Best Wishes!
March 4th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
order wordpress mug i say!
March 4th, 2009 at 5:38 pm
Nice!
March 4th, 2009 at 5:42 pm
I’m always intrigued by the disparity between new users and new blogs. I mean, the WP system isn’t particularly intimidating, yet people sign up and apparently just go away again. I’d love to know why.
Maybe it’s the prospect of having to come up with new stuff on a regular basis, but if you pick a subject that interests you, and just as importantly, other people, it’s not as intimidating as you might think. Or even at all – you might find you have a knack for blogging. So if you’re reading this and haven’t created a blog yet, go for it – it really repays the investment in time and effort. And the more you write, the easier it gets…
March 5th, 2009 at 2:20 am
A number of people create WordPress.com accounts just to use the API key so they can see stats on their WordPress.org self-hosted blogs.
March 4th, 2009 at 5:44 pm
This is amazing all the things you do!
Thank you so much!
March 4th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
Very nice WordPress. Just read this post right now.
March 4th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
impressive figures!
March 4th, 2009 at 6:20 pm
Wishing I was selling servers to wordpress…
March 4th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
WordPress is such an awesome site!
I wonder what cool stuff will happen this month?
March 4th, 2009 at 7:12 pm
keep it up, you’re doing an amazing job!
March 4th, 2009 at 7:20 pm
Well done wordpress!
March 4th, 2009 at 8:34 pm
Very good, very good
March 4th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
6,436,398 logins.
omg, good statistic
Good luck to the next years…
March 4th, 2009 at 8:41 pm
WordPress’ success is a tribute to your innovation, care, and hard work. Keep it up! The best is yet to come.
March 4th, 2009 at 8:44 pm
I have been so glad that the new theme “Vigilance” came along. I really like being able to choose the background colors because it makes the blog seem more pleasing. I don’t know CSS and therefore cannot use that option; but, that’s okay. Since I’m quite new to blogging, I’m more than satisfied and happy for this opportunity. Thank you very much for being such a wonderful team. All your efforts are greatly appreciated.
March 4th, 2009 at 8:53 pm
Woooo Hoooooo! thanks guys and gals, WP is awesome and getting awesomer. Thank you
March 4th, 2009 at 8:53 pm
greeaat job! WordPress rocks…
March 4th, 2009 at 9:15 pm
Since I came on board, I haven’t had a moment to spare. No boredom here. Thanks for the hard work and making me work harder. I think it’s good for me. Besides I’m really enjoying it.
March 4th, 2009 at 9:20 pm
Greaaat. Congratz.
March 4th, 2009 at 9:24 pm
Kudos for another great month!
March 4th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
go team!
March 4th, 2009 at 11:17 pm
Whoa! Yeah, February was a nice month.
March 4th, 2009 at 11:48 pm
Thanks for all the great effort!
March 5th, 2009 at 12:33 am
Keep it up guys, it’s the best blogging service out there. Cheers.
March 5th, 2009 at 2:17 am
thanks guys.kudos.
March 5th, 2009 at 5:46 am
Will BuddyPress be integrated into wordpress.com?
March 17th, 2009 at 9:09 pm
We will probably integrate BuddyPress into WordPress.com eventually, but that is a project for the future.
March 5th, 2009 at 7:34 am
keep up the good job done..
March 5th, 2009 at 8:25 am
i do not think that february is a goog month but march is
March 5th, 2009 at 8:25 am
Keep up the good work!!
Its great being with WP…..
Last year I’d inquired about the Google adsense making its way in wordpress, but my answer was deferred – now when is it coming?
March 7th, 2009 at 2:46 am
We don’t currently have a release date planned for an ads upgrade.
March 5th, 2009 at 9:23 am
Asyikk!, good job wordpress team!
March 5th, 2009 at 9:57 am
its cool…
keep up the gud work….
rock on,
WordPress
March 5th, 2009 at 9:59 am
Great job!
March 5th, 2009 at 10:09 am
thats fantastic…
March 5th, 2009 at 10:11 am
Give us more themes guys, existing ones not good enough, they’ve been there for a long time now.
March 5th, 2009 at 10:34 am
This just shows that this is the best blogging service available on the web. I check tons of different websites and they all use different versions of wordpress. Keep up the good work guys
March 5th, 2009 at 11:41 am
you guys doing good job..
Keep it up..
March 5th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
Ayeeee.. Way to go wordpress team! Impressive numbers! Good luck..
March 5th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
Congratulations! The numbers are sky-bound. Keep it up.
March 5th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
Hopefully there’ll be new theme with more stuff to customize
March 5th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
Keep it up! I’m thrilled to reap the benefits!
March 5th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
im a new user here and I feel comfortable knowing that I am part of a blog where the team members strive to constantly improve month after month. Look forward to being here.
March 5th, 2009 at 8:38 pm
YAY for wordpress!!! This is the best (and my favorite) blogging place on the internet- thanks a bunch!
March 5th, 2009 at 9:14 pm
Awesome….. My only question is how do you make any money doing this for free Matt?? I really enjoyed your talk at WordCamp Denver.
March 5th, 2009 at 9:16 pm
WP Rulz! and thx for the new theme.
March 5th, 2009 at 9:42 pm
I have to agree. Blogging is a piece of cake here. Thanks for all the effort and constant updates
March 5th, 2009 at 11:38 pm
Keep it up WordPress! Loving this!
*thumbs up*
March 6th, 2009 at 1:21 am
Great month for WordPress!
March 6th, 2009 at 1:49 am
[doing a great job here,
love to see these stats
every month]
March 6th, 2009 at 2:36 am
going from strength to strength.
I love this stat:
“776 terabytes of content transferred from our datacenters.”
nice!
March 6th, 2009 at 2:42 am
thanks WP team for threaded comments. Now I don’t need to move the cursor to know whose gives the newest comment(s) on my posting. Keep the good work. GBU all.
March 6th, 2009 at 3:19 am
That’s why i joined WordPress. Keep on going guys.
March 6th, 2009 at 7:51 am
WordPress is definitely the blogging platform of choice. 100%.
March 6th, 2009 at 10:08 am
hehehe…. Good Job!!! Keep It Up!!!
March 6th, 2009 at 11:26 am
Great Effort By WordPress! Congratulations for Great Achievement.
March 6th, 2009 at 4:02 pm
I know that you always give us the best
March 6th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
Congratulations to you guys!!! you ROCK!!!
March 6th, 2009 at 9:45 pm
Very impressive!
March 6th, 2009 at 11:37 pm
The best of the best! Congratulations to you guys
March 7th, 2009 at 4:38 am
I love the new theme — I’ve been using it for several weeks now, with no complaints! It looks great!
March 7th, 2009 at 6:46 am
I’m new to WordPress and this is very encouraging to hear!
March 7th, 2009 at 10:25 am
Nice, we’re gonna beat that !