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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.

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by Matt

Posted: Wednesday, March 4th, 2009 at 12:48 am. Filed in Automattic, Wrapup.
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  1. nickie wang
    Mar 4th at 1:40 am

    wow! great job wordpress team!

  2. Moses
    Mar 4th at 2:18 am

    Numbers never seem to go down eh? =D

  3. eviwidi
    Mar 4th at 2:38 am

    I like the new theme..!..:)
    Thanks a lot..

  4. exodians
    Mar 4th at 3:38 am

    aw, just in time with the Wrap-up

  5. cenya95
    Mar 4th at 3:39 am

    waow… congrats to you… WP

  6. bokhoo
    Mar 4th at 3:50 am

    great.

  7. navedz
    Mar 4th at 3:55 am

    great job team wordpress and all the members!

  8. Cat
    Mar 4th at 4:09 am

    Another great month for WordPress! I’m really enjoying threaded comments. Makes conversation much easier!

  9. etre
    Mar 4th at 4:36 am

    Excellent job!
    Any hints on what’s coming for March?? ;)

  10. Asad Ali
    Mar 4th at 4:58 am

    Great as always…
    Thumbs Up…!
    Asad

  11. bubblesbabbles
    Mar 4th at 5:24 am

    yay wordpress!

    Honestly, its THE best bloghost I could find so far.

    Rock On!

  12. Ferireza
    Mar 4th at 5:51 am

    2Thumbs Up 4WP :mrgreen:

  13. ต้นแพร
    Mar 4th at 6:27 am

    O.o

    comment subscription, good feature.

  14. Yasir Imran
    Mar 4th at 7:08 am

    So it was a good month in overall

  15. bubblie
    Mar 4th at 7:10 am

    good stuff!

  16. Agus Setiyawan
    Mar 4th at 7:52 am

    Your photo is funny …

  17. barok.eszter
    Mar 4th at 7:57 am

    It’s been my best month with over 15 000 views. :)

  18. khuneesa
    Mar 4th at 7:58 am

    good leraning and teqmwork.thanks

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  20. drizzletrouble
    Mar 4th at 9:08 am

    wooww!!

  21. ζÔ§Η
    Mar 4th at 9:20 am

    awesome stats

  22. Vlad Moldovan
    Mar 4th at 9:56 am

    Nice stats ;)

  23. Lilja
    Mar 4th at 9:59 am

    These figures are great – and your job is even greater. Thank you very much :D

  24. Haimin Huang
    Mar 4th at 10:50 am

    Nice…. Anyways 776 terabytes of data transfer is a staggering figure for one month. Great work, keep it up!

  25. aeschmann
    Mar 4th at 12:14 pm

    i’m still lost…but i’ll catch up…fast…or i die trying…to breathe the cyberair…lol

  26. meenas17
    Mar 4th 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.

  27. Anki
    Mar 4th at 1:03 pm

    Indeed a great job! Glad to be a part of the adventure!

  28. Bharat Verma
    Mar 4th at 1:10 pm

    hmm .. great .. im new here lets see …
    it looks better than blogger .. :)

  29. ibanremun
    Mar 4th at 1:35 pm

    good

  30. Aditya Kavoor
    Mar 4th at 2:17 pm

    Special thanks for threaded comments :)

  31. Ger
    Mar 4th at 2:33 pm

    Definitely enjoying my WordPress experience. The guys in the band and myself appreciate all your efforts.

  32. Rizal
    Mar 4th at 3:09 pm

    the best in february is threded comment feature and my b’day :)

  33. eideard
    Mar 4th at 3:33 pm

    I hear you enjoyed your trip to the Taj Mahal…

  34. trollboy
    Mar 4th at 3:46 pm

    this is an impressive number: 1,970,822,992

  35. Camilo López Darias
    Mar 4th at 4:19 pm

    Excelent Job as always, WP.

  36. srujun01
    Mar 4th at 4:27 pm

    WP is the best! Luv ya WordPress!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  37. juliust68
    Mar 4th at 4:30 pm

    awesome, keep on!!!

  38. enkerli
    Mar 4th 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.

  39. Pothi
    Mar 4th at 4:50 pm

    You are amazing me (and everyone) whenever we come to see the monthly wrap-up. Best Wishes!

  40. niekmilder
    Mar 4th at 4:53 pm

    order wordpress mug i say!

  41. mmopuk
    Mar 4th at 5:38 pm

    Nice!

  42. Ron
    Mar 4th 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…

    • Heather
      Mar 5th 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.

  43. Efil
    Mar 4th at 5:44 pm

    This is amazing all the things you do!
    Thank you so much!

  44. bilawalblog
    Mar 4th at 5:48 pm

    Very nice WordPress. Just read this post right now.

  45. frekje
    Mar 4th at 6:01 pm

    impressive figures!

  46. gregdeming
    Mar 4th at 6:20 pm

    Wishing I was selling servers to wordpress…

  47. Zaeriuraschi 11098
    Mar 4th at 6:27 pm

    WordPress is such an awesome site!
    I wonder what cool stuff will happen this month? :)

  48. Król Mór
    Mar 4th at 7:12 pm

    keep it up, you’re doing an amazing job!

  49. bleuetoile
    Mar 4th at 7:20 pm

    Well done wordpress! :)

  50. Fabrizio, the wings
    Mar 4th at 8:34 pm

    Very good, very good

  51. Renards
    Mar 4th at 8:39 pm

    6,436,398 logins.

    omg, good statistic ;) Good luck to the next years… ;)

  52. 8musicphreak3
    Mar 4th 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.

  53. Margaret
    Mar 4th 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.

  54. Robin Grant
    Mar 4th at 8:53 pm

    Woooo Hoooooo! thanks guys and gals, WP is awesome and getting awesomer. Thank you

  55. 9000yearsold
    Mar 4th at 8:53 pm

    greeaat job! WordPress rocks…

  56. The Lioness
    Mar 4th 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.

  57. Armando Netto
    Mar 4th at 9:20 pm

    Greaaat. Congratz.

  58. mormonsoprano
    Mar 4th at 9:24 pm

    Kudos for another great month!

  59. lena
    Mar 4th at 10:28 pm

    go team!

  60. Wacky Flip8
    Mar 4th at 11:17 pm

    Whoa! Yeah, February was a nice month.

  61. Andrew
    Mar 4th at 11:48 pm

    Thanks for all the great effort!

  62. Maggie
    Mar 5th at 12:33 am

    Keep it up guys, it’s the best blogging service out there. Cheers.

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  64. flamindevil
    Mar 5th at 2:17 am

    thanks guys.kudos.

  65. timethief
    Mar 5th at 5:46 am

    Will BuddyPress be integrated into wordpress.com?

    • Sheri
      Mar 17th at 9:09 pm

      We will probably integrate BuddyPress into WordPress.com eventually, but that is a project for the future.

  66. dusunbukit
    Mar 5th at 7:34 am

    keep up the good job done..

  67. zohaibrajput
    Mar 5th at 8:25 am

    i do not think that february is a goog month but march is

  68. Chirag Jain
    Mar 5th 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?

  69. gustomobil
    Mar 5th at 9:23 am

    Asyikk!, good job wordpress team!

  70. coolkarthik
    Mar 5th at 9:57 am

    its cool…
    keep up the gud work….
    rock on,
    Wordpress

  71. blogscapes
    Mar 5th at 9:59 am

    Great job!

  72. nandagirl
    Mar 5th at 10:09 am

    thats fantastic…

  73. Nibu Thomas
    Mar 5th at 10:11 am

    Give us more themes guys, existing ones not good enough, they’ve been there for a long time now.

  74. mau64
    Mar 5th 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

  75. medaad
    Mar 5th at 11:41 am

    you guys doing good job..
    Keep it up..

  76. Naveen Nataraj
    Mar 5th at 12:39 pm

    Ayeeee.. Way to go wordpress team! Impressive numbers! Good luck.. :)

  77. mgcarpizo
    Mar 5th at 12:54 pm

    Congratulations! The numbers are sky-bound. Keep it up.

  78. bluewizzard
    Mar 5th at 1:40 pm

    Hopefully there’ll be new theme with more stuff to customize

  79. James McAlister
    Mar 5th at 2:46 pm

    Keep it up! I’m thrilled to reap the benefits!

  80. cello85
    Mar 5th 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.

  81. alliedow
    Mar 5th at 8:38 pm

    YAY for wordpress!!! This is the best (and my favorite) blogging place on the internet- thanks a bunch!

  82. parkercolorado
    Mar 5th 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. :)

  83. xrazerx
    Mar 5th at 9:16 pm

    WP Rulz! and thx for the new theme.

  84. groovewavestv
    Mar 5th at 9:42 pm

    I have to agree. Blogging is a piece of cake here. Thanks for all the effort and constant updates

  85. ~*вяσωηιє*~
    Mar 5th at 11:38 pm

    Keep it up WordPress! Loving this! :D *thumbs up*

  86. ronakorn
    Mar 6th at 1:21 am

    Great month for WordPress!

  87. squarebrackets
    Mar 6th at 1:49 am

    [doing a great job here,
    love to see these stats
    every month]

  88. ggw_bach
    Mar 6th at 2:36 am

    going from strength to strength.

    I love this stat:

    “776 terabytes of content transferred from our datacenters.”

    nice!

  89. thewaskitas
    Mar 6th 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.

  90. v4nw1ld3r
    Mar 6th at 3:19 am

    That’s why i joined WordPress. Keep on going guys.

  91. linuxandfriends
    Mar 6th at 7:51 am

    WordPress is definitely the blogging platform of choice. 100%.

  92. danieldarz
    Mar 6th at 10:08 am

    hehehe…. Good Job!!! Keep It Up!!!

  93. karkidinesh
    Mar 6th at 11:26 am

    Great Effort By WordPress! Congratulations for Great Achievement.

  94. AKHMAD SUDRAJAT
    Mar 6th at 4:02 pm

    I know that you always give us the best

  95. adventuresofabeautyqueen
    Mar 6th at 4:56 pm

    Congratulations to you guys!!! you ROCK!!!

  96. lifeleap99
    Mar 6th at 9:45 pm

    Very impressive!

  97. 4dreem
    Mar 6th at 11:37 pm

    The best of the best! Congratulations to you guys

  98. whymommy
    Mar 7th at 4:38 am

    I love the new theme — I’ve been using it for several weeks now, with no complaints! It looks great!

  99. cordoroy
    Mar 7th at 6:46 am

    I’m new to WordPress and this is very encouraging to hear!

  100. m4ti
    Mar 7th at 10:25 am

    Nice, we’re gonna beat that !

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