April Wrap-Up
In April we introduced Instant Findability, TED video embeds, a springtime theme, a cool new domain, and reply-by-email for comments, now open to all. A pretty busy month, with more awesome features on the way, plus WordCamp San Francisco, on May 30.
If you’re in town or want a reason to be, be sure to register soon. We’ve got a great speaker line-up, free WordPress schwag to give away, and, of course, a BBQ lunch.
Here are the stats for April:
- 370,053 blogs were created.
- 401,320 new users joined.
- 5,206,156 file uploads.
- 3,050 gigabytes of new files.
- 775 terabytes of content transferred from our datacenters.
- 8,691,962 comments.
- 6,991,335 logins.
- 1,162,296,607 pageviews on WordPress.com, and another 1,130,311,791 on self-hosted blogs (2,292,608,398 total across all WordPress blogs we track).
- 1,904,262 active blogs and 19,665,407 active posts where “active” means they got a human visitor.
- 1,569,961,240 words.
Other cool stuff:
After tallying the community vote, the judges panel (Derek Powazek, Matt Thomas, and myself) selected two winning designs for the I <3 Blogging design contest. You can now buy “Dandy(lion) Blogging” by el_square and “I Love Blogging (and Pixel Art)” by Robert Podgórski in the Infectious store as vinyl stickers for your laptop, iPod or iPhone. Congrats to the winners and all who submitted their work.
Though we released comment reply via email late in the month (April 23), you’re already making great use of it. 1,029 replies to comments via email just in the final week.
Video uploads using the WordPress player are on the rise, too: 5,290 in April. If you haven’t already checked it out, head to WordPress.tv to see what your videos could look like in the WordPress player (and to learn a bit, too). If you like what you see, you can purchase the Space Upgrade to get uploading.
We launched BuddyPress 1.0, a collection of plugins that transform a vanilla WordPress MU install into a social network.
WIRED.com migrated its blogs to WordPress, and Intruders.tv relaunched their channels using WordPress MU.
WordCamp Central was redesigned, and now has an awesome map that displays WordCamps around the world.
There were six WordCamps in April: WordCamp China, WordCamp Hong Kong, WordCamp NOLA, WordCamp Tokyo, WordCamp Nigeria, and WordCamp Reno-Tahoe.
Coming up in May: WordCamp Toronto, WordCamp Richmond, WordCamp Mid-Atlantic, WordCamp Columbus, WordCamp Ed CUNY, WordCamp Milan, and WordCamp San Francisco.
May 9th at 2:37 am
Hehe It’s nice feeling apart of something that big!
May 9th at 2:40 am
So many awesome features are popping up on WP.. exciting!
May 9th at 2:50 am
Wow April was a busy month for you guys.
May 9th at 3:14 am
Thank you so much for the work that you do.
May 9th at 3:16 am
A few thousand of those words are mine!
May 9th at 3:55 am
Sounds like things are going quite well. I myself just signed up with WordPress and finding it to be a better blog site than blogger…
May 9th at 4:40 am
WP rocks!
I will love to work with WP. Do let me know when/if you need someone in India (New Delhi) who believes that ” a drop of ink can make a million think” and blogs ‘the whole world’!
May 9th at 7:19 am
Hell ya, didn’t know WordPress is that big, this really makes me think that the exponential times theory is damn true not just a philosophical idea.
May 9th at 8:52 am
May 9th at 10:47 am
*Agrees with Andrew*
I love all the updates you get here!
- Lora
May 9th at 11:20 am
Another Great Month For WordPress … Figures Are Simply Awesome Matt … And yeah i really like idea of replying comments Via e-mail … its make our job bit easier
May 9th at 11:26 am
… the sky is the limit …
May 9th at 11:43 am
“775 terabytes of content transferred from our datacenters.” – wow.
May 9th at 11:57 am
Cripes. If you ever held a WordCamp New Mexico, I’d attend. And I don’t go anywhere.
May 9th at 12:56 pm
Great job for April. Some of the best updates yet. The TED video embeds were long overdue ^^
May 9th at 1:15 pm
So many numbers! =D
May 9th at 1:29 pm
Wow, I suppose a little bigger than last year!
May 9th at 2:38 pm
Good job to WordPress…
May 9th at 3:00 pm
Well, nobody could accuse WordPress of staying still. I’m happy to be a part of it.
May 9th at 3:30 pm
nice numbers!
you have April Wrap-Up for latinoamerica?
May 9th at 3:33 pm
Awesome!
May 9th at 4:07 pm
WordPress you rocks and deserve more than that
May 9th at 4:09 pm
yeah this is my third month and all three of the blogs I started are still going strong thanks for your help wordpress team (I started one in april)
May 9th at 5:50 pm
Well done, WordPeople. Thanks for reply-by-email comments especially. You make blogging easy.
May 9th at 7:21 pm
I started in April myself. I couldn’t be happier with my experience. It’s great to see that you are constantly improving the interface for your users.
May 9th at 8:46 pm
A lot has been done. You all work so hard and it is greatly appreciated. Thank you.
May 9th at 8:57 pm
775 terabytes, that’s insane!!
May 10th at 2:24 am
Woohoo, I’m one of the new users that joined this month… loving it already! Thanks for all the great features!
May 10th at 3:03 am
hermmm….ola.!!!
May 10th at 6:13 am
good………………keep it up..
May 10th at 10:10 am
And it’s still growing – amazing how WordPress evolved over the last years! Congratulation
May 10th at 1:12 pm
Thanks for all the awesome stuff done in april.
May 10th at 3:06 pm
I start to fall in love with this WP, cool stuff Matt
May 10th at 4:46 pm
legal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 10th at 4:49 pm
Well, thanks for the update, no matter how overwhelming it continues to be. A particular statistic which I have been looking for and whose inclusion I would most definitely appreciate, either in this post as an update or the next one just as an additional stat in your post, is that how many users and viewers who visited blogs hosted on WordPress had a screen setting of at least 1024 by 800 pixels. I, for one, would most definitely appreciate that extra bit of information.
For the time being, just as I have said in the beginning, no matter how overwhelming the stats may be, thanks for the information any way.
May 10th at 5:54 pm
Awesome job guys, you deserve it!
May 10th at 7:30 pm
Happy to hear that!
Hope it stays like that!!
May 10th at 10:23 pm
I was very much into ireports. I really am impressed with this. Thank you!
May 11th at 3:27 am
Whoa, that’s a lot! Thank you guys for being such an amazing team and making WordPress the best place ever to blog! =)
May 11th at 7:11 am
i love the short domain and TED!
May 11th at 9:23 am
wow indeed those are a lot of numbers >:)
May 11th at 9:50 am
Yet another great month – Thank you guys for all your work
May 11th at 11:43 am
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Good Luck
May 11th at 1:09 pm
All of it is a useful stuff. thanks a lot!
May 11th at 6:25 pm
Yay for WordPress! Great April and SIX years in May! I am sooo looking forward to WordCamp SF! Even if you’re not super techie (like me) it’s a lot of fun and you’ll learn a lot!
May 11th at 6:27 pm
Awesome, always something new for us!!
May 11th at 10:46 pm
Thank you!! Thats great!!
May 11th at 11:56 pm
Add suport for html5 video tag, please!!!
May 12th at 4:09 am
Hey.. feels nice to be part of wordpress. You guys come up with amazing stuffs time and again. Thank you.
May 12th at 4:24 am
foot in mouth.
blogging is a great invention.
May 12th at 10:20 am
Awesome Stats!!!!!
May 12th at 11:27 am
Great April. Hope wordpress will gain even more success in May as well!
May 12th at 12:55 pm
Wow, awesome! I never new that that much people sign up on WP everyday !
May 12th at 6:24 pm
hi ppl have a good day
May 12th at 7:15 pm
Thanks for most sympathy from all of us, to all of you . Thank you again .
May 12th at 10:57 pm
I moved my portfolio from Yahoo Sitebuilder to WordPress.com earlier this month.
Your service impressed me so much that I moved an existing blog here from Blogger!
Thank you for the constant innovation and exciting developments. You make it all look easy
May 12th at 11:37 pm
Brilliant! Honestly Matt, your team is doing a brilliant job, and the stats are simply amazing – I’m glad to be on WordPress. Keep up the good work.
May 13th at 2:26 am
I knew I was on the best blog site. Now if I can just get my 50+ mind wrapped around some of those newfangled gadjets (sp)! Grrratzie!
Spidr
May 13th at 3:51 am
Thank you for choosing my design, Matt. I’m very honored and extremely happy that you did. This is Loc aka el_square from Infectious.
May 13th at 5:26 am
Good job! you guys!
May 13th at 2:28 pm
The stats are good but you’re looking great! “,
May 13th at 6:34 pm
Wow!!! Great jobs man!!
May 13th at 11:21 pm
Keep up the good work & I’m happy to play a small part.
May 14th at 6:50 am
Glad to contribute to the status increase! Yay for everyone with something to say! Thanks for making this such a fun place to be~
May 14th at 11:25 am
Good Job!
May 15th at 12:01 am
This is mom from holeinthefence.net. You are the best!!! WordPress it so user friendly even this ole dog can use it and that is saying a lot. Thank you, thank you, thank you and Congratulations on your well deserved success. Very proud to be part of this. More power to you!
May 15th at 12:08 am
cool!!!!
May 15th at 3:17 am
Great !!!
Do the best…
May 15th at 12:25 pm
Excellent……
Nice to hear about it
May 20th at 6:50 am
Wow!! what is the name of wordpress fans by the way?