March Wrap-Up
In March we brought you P2, an awesome theme perfect for short-form and group blogging, made with love by Automatticians. Next, version 1.21 of the WordPress for iPhone app hit the iTunes Store. To wrap up the month, we celebrated the opening of our new Automattic office space in SOMA. It turned out to be a pretty fantastic party. See if you can spot the point where we ran out of cups.
Here are the stats for March (with no April fooling):
- 389,819 blogs were created.
- 423,744 new users joined.
- 5,302,257 file uploads.
- 2,993 gigabytes of new files.
- 827 terabytes of content transferred from our datacenters.
- 8,870,409 comments.
- 7,383,209 logins.
- 1,191,390,256 pageviews on WordPress.com, and another 1,118,107,804 on self-hosted blogs (2,309,498,060 total across all WordPress blogs we track).
- 1,111,892 active blogs and 21,014,074 active posts where “active” means they got a human visitor.
- 1,456,062,555 words.
Plus:
Egypt hosted its first-ever WordCamp on March 28. (Coming up in April: WordCamp China, WordCamp Hong Kong, WordCamp NOLA, WordCamp Tokyo, and WordCamp Reno-Tahoe.)
Sonin.mn, a daily digest of Mongolian top newspapers, joined WordPress.com VIP.
BuddyPress.org relaunched, built from the ground up using WordPress MU and BuddyPress.
Email Newsletter

April 2nd, 2009 at 6:32 pm
That is fantastic, you guys are really going above and beyond. Congrats on all the success!
April 2nd, 2009 at 6:43 pm
Great work guys. The P2 theme is fantastic, best yet infact. Thank you for making such a great platform.
April 2nd, 2009 at 7:18 pm
Thank you! I have about 10 blogs about half of which were created in March!
April 2nd, 2009 at 7:37 pm
greetings to wordpress team ^_^
April 2nd, 2009 at 7:52 pm
Matt-no mention of the new twitter widget? That was worth a whole month of awesomeness all by itself.
April 2nd, 2009 at 8:34 pm
Yes. March was a nice month, don’t you think? And WOW that’s a lot of stats!
April 2nd, 2009 at 8:34 pm
Great job you guys, keep it up. Hey you forgot to mention the twitter widget.
Cheers,
Maggie
April 2nd, 2009 at 9:01 pm
April 2nd, 2009 at 10:45 pm
Please let us have a Tarski Theme with black text!
April 2nd, 2009 at 11:00 pm
bring on a daily archieve widget
:)
April 2nd, 2009 at 11:13 pm
Thanks for all your hard work, guys.
April 2nd, 2009 at 11:30 pm
“1,111,892 active blogs and 21,014,074 active posts where “active” means they got a human visitor.”
…but what does “human” mean
April 3rd, 2009 at 9:23 pm
It means they know the lyrics to at least one Bon Jovi song.
April 3rd, 2009 at 12:34 am
The numbers are kind of mind boggling..
April 3rd, 2009 at 12:42 am
Nice stats.
April 3rd, 2009 at 12:45 am
keep up the great work WP!!!!
April 3rd, 2009 at 12:48 am
I’m guessing the cups ran out right around where the bartender is pouring liquor directly into that guys mouth. Am I close?
April 3rd, 2009 at 1:04 am
I launched my blog in March and you guys just kept making it better and better–the twitter widget rocks!
April 3rd, 2009 at 1:20 am
greats numbers!.
congratulations
April 3rd, 2009 at 1:25 am
Yea Awesome! My Blog Has Like 13,356 Hits! And It Keeps Going Up!
April 3rd, 2009 at 1:25 am
WordPress you rock !
we all behind you and appereciate all your efforts .
April 3rd, 2009 at 1:59 am
I developed my first two blogs this month. The learning curve was easier than I expected, and the results have been more than worth it. I can’t even imagine where I’ll be a month from now. THANKS for all you do!
April 3rd, 2009 at 2:02 am
yeah, you forgot to mention the twitter widget.
that is really awesome widget.
April 3rd, 2009 at 2:20 am
Awesome Stats – Congrats. Any word on WordCamp India?
April 3rd, 2009 at 2:26 am
….I have a WordPress obsession. I love you guys!
April 3rd, 2009 at 3:08 am
another impressive month! we look forward to quite more new features and updates from team wordpress!!
April 3rd, 2009 at 4:22 am
Thx for the twitter widget.
April 3rd, 2009 at 7:15 am
Great stats! Love you guys WordPress!
~iMmopuk~
April 3rd, 2009 at 8:32 am
Nice!Is this the next best blogging system?
April 3rd, 2009 at 8:54 am
Wow! WordPress is going up the ceiling! How much money did you gain?
April 3rd, 2009 at 9:04 am
wow!
April 3rd, 2009 at 9:35 am
We Love WordPress ,,
April 3rd, 2009 at 9:52 am
Thanks for working hard continuously…You’re such a big help!
April 3rd, 2009 at 10:10 am
As a blogger who just recently moved over here all I want to say is thanks, it is really great over here in WordPress land.
April 3rd, 2009 at 10:56 am
That’s great, though not surprising. WordPress is the best place to create a blog from all over the web! ;D
April 3rd, 2009 at 12:27 pm
Simply irresistible. Just try to keep track of which time zone you’re in.
April 3rd, 2009 at 1:20 pm
impressive indeed!
April 3rd, 2009 at 1:47 pm
Spectacular!!! Congrats and Thanks!
April 3rd, 2009 at 4:02 pm
great work
April 3rd, 2009 at 4:07 pm
WordPress Rocks!
(back to cubing…)
April 3rd, 2009 at 4:39 pm
Thank you and congrats on the continuing awesomeness! I’m ready for another new theme!
April 3rd, 2009 at 5:05 pm
wow…cool…
hip2 for wordpress…
April 3rd, 2009 at 5:37 pm
I am impressed.
keep it up wordpressers
wow, that’s all I can say
April 3rd, 2009 at 6:24 pm
well looks like wordpress is getting somewhere I’m one of those people who just joined so yeah.
April 3rd, 2009 at 6:41 pm
we are all doing great!!! ;-p
April 3rd, 2009 at 7:26 pm
Keep it up WordPress! Loving this!
April 3rd, 2009 at 7:42 pm
Awesome month. Thanks for the Twitter widget and great themes!
April 4th, 2009 at 2:47 am
More stuff is always great. Kudos to the addition of the Twitter widget.
April 4th, 2009 at 3:17 am
love wordpress
nice simple but its Great!!
April 4th, 2009 at 3:49 am
Excellent, but I want more and more…
April 4th, 2009 at 4:55 am
I must say that I’m quite happy I chose WordPress.
April 4th, 2009 at 5:19 am
It’s a great job. you are doing well for all Gujarati.
April 4th, 2009 at 7:34 am
As usual, great job, WordPress! I am so loving every features that you release. Keep it up!
April 4th, 2009 at 8:09 am
That is totally awesome. Thanks for the hard work guys.
April 4th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
We are glad to have wordpress it has became very useful in our search for a woman who is missing from our local area. Keep up the great work and thank you for making a great site!
April 4th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
wordpress ftw.
neater, cleaner, looks more professional than blogger.
i dont regret making the switch from blogger to wordpress!
thumbs up wordpress. keep it up!
April 4th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
Again, it looks like good things from good people. It’s beyond my present needs and understanding, and yet, I’m glad you’re meeting the needs of those much more technically inclined. Congratulations!
April 4th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
Keep it up wordpress!
April 4th, 2009 at 7:35 pm
What about March Madness? You cant forget march madness, that is the funest thing to watch during…well, march.
April 4th, 2009 at 10:11 pm
I’m havin fun
April 5th, 2009 at 2:39 am
Great job!
April 5th, 2009 at 5:41 am
wow!!!
this is great
keep up the good work
April 5th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
go freedom guys…..!!!
April 5th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
I liked ‘active’ blog statistics in this month’s wrap-up!
April 5th, 2009 at 5:02 pm
Great!
April 5th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
I love wordpress.com. As a blogger I can serve so many readers. I really do appreciate the hard work that you are putting for the youth of today. Keep it up!
April 5th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
It would be awesome if the wrap-up also profiled the 5 or 10 most popular posts or blogs of the month. =]
April 5th, 2009 at 10:51 pm
Very very nice!
April 5th, 2009 at 11:36 pm
Switching from Blogger to WordPress… wish I had been that smart about Stocks & Real Estate. I’d be a millionaire.
April 5th, 2009 at 11:39 pm
I am having SO MUCH FUN blogging with WordPress! Thank you for all you do for us!
April 6th, 2009 at 1:18 am
Great job. Just launched mine ten days ago and it has had a huge impact.
April 6th, 2009 at 6:52 am
Great month with good additions, especially the twitter widget.
Looking forward to new features for April. For example, new themes, new widgets, maybe allow ads?
Thanks for the good work.
April 6th, 2009 at 9:37 am
Very well done….!
Keep it up..!
April 6th, 2009 at 11:43 am
Hey congrats! And thanks for letting me hop-aboard!
April 6th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
May I try it? Will I have fun with it?
May God bless you guys for your intelligence…
April 6th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
Looks like you already are! Happy blogging
April 6th, 2009 at 11:53 pm
buen trabajo
April 7th, 2009 at 12:01 am
WordCamp Egypt was just AWESOME, it was really great to have you here in Egypt, and we will really be glad to have you in the next year, in WordCamp Egypt 2010
April 7th, 2009 at 6:24 am
i just build my blog…and its really great
thanks for all and don’t forget to visit my blog
April 7th, 2009 at 11:10 am
Need to improve performance for photo galeries!
It is so slow to manage pictures..
thanks!
April 7th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
Still learning the ropes on blogging and all, but I must say, WordPress is wonderful.
April 7th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
awesome
keep up the good work
April 7th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
Congrats on yet another amazing month! I tried blogging several times in years past, but never kept it up. You lured me back in when I discovered the guy recounting his daily career doing eye recoveries for cornea transplants and decided to give it yet another go using WordPress. Its been many months now and I’m still keeping it up, thanks to your ease of use and full featured technologies. You really have created a home for the world to share and I join so many others in thanking you for that.
April 7th, 2009 at 4:59 pm
The power of WP
April 7th, 2009 at 8:05 pm
It was a good month right!
April 8th, 2009 at 7:05 am
i m avid fan of wordpress and enjoy a every minute of using it ..
i m grateful to a frnd who referred wordpress to me.. otherwise i wld have landed with another google product.. after seeing wordpress i kind of hate blogger.
nonetheless.. all the very best to wordpress team.. u guys r rockin.. and doing fantastic job …
April 8th, 2009 at 6:06 pm
Now you just gotta get the P2 theme up in the theme directory for those of us who host our own blogs. >_>
April 8th, 2009 at 8:51 pm
Pretty cool!
April 8th, 2009 at 8:52 pm
wow good stats once again for wordpress I made a blog last February and the stats were good then too
April 8th, 2009 at 9:07 pm
So glad to hear about the iPhone app. That will be very helpful!
April 8th, 2009 at 10:20 pm
Thanks for the easy add to this.
very well done site.
April 9th, 2009 at 5:15 am
Well you got my vote – I am enjoying this experience
April 9th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
I have made a blog this march new to this but still learning as for the stats are concerned congrats and keep up the good work.
April 10th, 2009 at 4:33 am
wow good stats once again for wordpress I made a blog last February and the stats were good then too
April 10th, 2009 at 5:08 am
Congratulations , this is a fantastic work .
April 10th, 2009 at 6:10 am
waw…. that’s amazing…..
I love WP….. muaaaaaaaaaaaaach….
April 10th, 2009 at 10:30 am
I’m new here, don’t know much ’bout this. But I think it’s great!
I’m from Sweden and want friends from different countries. Please visit my blog and make a comment.
April 10th, 2009 at 11:20 am
Congrats … didn’t know that WordPress have so much traffic in such a little time
Keep doin’ !