May Wrap-Up
Sorry for this being the latest wrap-up ever.
May was a fun month for us. We rolled out a ton of new features: the ability to add YouTube videos and polls to comments, stats in your time zone, the VideoPress upgrade (with HD!), post by email, new stats charts, comment search, improved comment reply by email, and VideoPress.com.
May was also the month for our largest-ever WordCamp San Francisco. Mission Bay Conference Center was a packed house, but (amazingly) everything ran on schedule, and nothing went wrong! A round of applause is due to our sponsors, speakers, and everyone who attended for helping to make WordCamp such a smooth success. Thanks for making it all possible.
For post-event coverage of WordCamp, check out the updated site for WordCamp San Francisco 2009.
And now, the stats for May:
- 387,416 blogs were created.
- 411,704 new users joined.
- 5,504,742 file uploads.
- 3,333 gigabytes of new files.
- 826 terabytes of content transferred from our datacenters.
- 8,625,931 comments.
- 6,914,546 logins.
- 1,243,177,638 pageviews on WordPress.com, and another 1,207,143,849 on self-hosted blogs (2,450,321,487 total across all WordPress blogs we track).
- 2,105,723 active blogs where “active” means they got a human visitor.
- 1,728,890,160 words.
Plus:
There were 12,123 post-by-email posts since the release of that feature on May 12.
Video uploads are on the rise after the release of the VideoPress upgrade: 5,587.
WordCamps in May: WordCamp Toronto, WordCamp Richmond, WordCamp Mid-Atlantic, WordCamp Columbus, WordCamp Milan, WordCamp Ed CUNY, WordCamp San Francisco.
WordCamp San Francisco had 739 pre-event registrations (a huge jump from 427 last year), and 789 actual attendees from 32 countries — plus 15 speakers, six sponsors, and lots of volunteers.
WordCamps in June: WordCamp Chicago, WordCamp RDU, WordCamp Brazil, WordCamp Dallas.
Health.com has launched the Ask the Natural Living Experts forum hosted on the new TalkPress VIP service.
Email Newsletter
June 15th, 2009 at 3:09 am
Wow, I’m surprised with the amount blogs that were created in May!
June 15th, 2009 at 3:12 am
Wowie, look at all ‘dem numbers.
June 15th, 2009 at 3:55 am
Matt, I can’t blame you if it took you took weeks to recover from WordCamp SF 2009! Great conference, great party, not to mention awesome platform that brings us all soooooo much fun!! Thank you and congrats on 6 years of awesomeness! (PS LOVE the new digs on the water of the SF BAY! What an inspiring place to think and play! Thanks for inviting us all over!)
June 15th, 2009 at 4:00 am
BTW, that’s me in the green jacket and striped skirt in the front row of the packed house picture!
June 15th, 2009 at 4:29 am
Nice, as always.
June 15th, 2009 at 4:41 am
Indeed a great month. ^-^ Enjoyed the new stat chart and stats in my time zone the most of all. :3
June 15th, 2009 at 6:24 am
May’s been a good month. Been using WordPress for a little over a month now and it’s great! Fun to use and not as hard to learn as others say.
There’s been plenty of useful updates added throughout the month too.
June 15th, 2009 at 7:03 am
Thanks for improving WordPress. I really love this community!
June 15th, 2009 at 7:14 am
Congratulations WP and Matt.
This is my last comment on the following topic. Do you think to have available in an uncertain future time a variant of Tarsky that allows full black text?
I would very much appreciate it, because I love Tarsky, but this detail for the use I do.
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:59 pm
Américo: if you want to change the default font colors of a theme, you’d be best off buying the CSS upgrade, which will give you fill control over the appearance of all theme elements. In your dashboard, click on Upgrades in the navigation menu and you’ll see how to proceed. More information is available here: http://support.wordpress.com/custom-css/
June 15th, 2009 at 7:15 am
As ever a round of applause to WordPress for all that it has achieved and enabled others to achieve.
The opening heading – “Sorry for this being the latest wrap-up ever.” has me both puzzled and a little concerned. The wrap ups are a nice way of catching up with what has gone before – why are they stopping and is something replacing them?
Please enlighten!
Regards
Stephen
June 22nd, 2009 at 8:37 pm
Hi Stephen. Re-read the sentence; Matt says “latest,” not “last.” The wrap-ups will keep coming. He was just apologizing for not getting the May wrap-up out sooner.
June 15th, 2009 at 8:47 am
Growin…..Growin… Growing……Keep it UP..!
June 15th, 2009 at 9:59 am
Nice ..
June 15th, 2009 at 11:23 am
And june promisses to be great also with the release of WP 2.8…
June 15th, 2009 at 11:45 am
I got tired just reading all of that! May was a busy month for everyone. Thank you for all that you do!
June 15th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
Keep prospering!
June 15th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
I have seen and profited from most of these awesome updates, plugs and improvements. I still want to try a poll in the comments…
Cool
June 15th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
Wow May looks like it was fantastic – thanks for working hard and bringing in a lot of new features! WordPress is only getting better from here
June 15th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
great numbers!
congratulations
June 15th, 2009 at 5:21 pm
You guys ROCK way beyond even the best Led Zeppelin concert ever!!! I was not gifted with techno-savy. Even crashed a computer a few years ago trying to build a website. Disaster on all levels. A friend guided me to wordpress a few months ago (yes…..even with the ease you gift us with it’s taken me that long to get set up!) and I could not be more grateful!
Much, Much Bliss and Success to You All!
THANK YOU!!!
Forrester
June 15th, 2009 at 5:28 pm
I’m only one of the 411,704 new users joined and own 2 of the 387,416 blogs who were created in may… I must say, wordpress rocks it!
thnx a mill
June 15th, 2009 at 6:12 pm
Yep it was a cool month!
June 15th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
great!! you did great in this month!
June 15th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
As always, the stats are amazing!
I’ve been on WordPress since November, and I think that May was the best month yet. 
June 15th, 2009 at 7:34 pm
I’m excited about all the great stuff in May, don’t get me wrong. But it’s a little late to find out about WordCampRDU that happened last Friday
June 22nd, 2009 at 8:20 pm
Hi Clark. WordCamps are not produced by WordPress.com, but are community organized, so they are generally not announced/publicized here on the official WordPress.com blog. However, all WordCamps around the world are listed on the official WordCamp site at http://wordcamp.org so keep an eye on that for more events in your area.
June 15th, 2009 at 7:37 pm
Very pleased with WordPress
June 15th, 2009 at 8:56 pm
2.1 million active blogs… wow.
June 15th, 2009 at 9:04 pm
That there is a whole lot of views great job wordpress
June 15th, 2009 at 9:40 pm
Busy month. So much going on, I totally missed the videopress.com anouncement!
June 15th, 2009 at 9:51 pm
great things…. WordPress is fantastico!
June 15th, 2009 at 10:49 pm
Hope you won’t be late for June’s wrap-up!
June 15th, 2009 at 11:58 pm
amazing, love to be at the camp next year. Keep up the fantastic work and i think that i can speak for a large portion of all wordpress users..”Thank you so much”
June 16th, 2009 at 4:06 am
Go WordPress
. Btw, Thanks for improving the widget part in wp 2.8, because I always lost my setting everytime de-active text widget in wp2.7.
June 16th, 2009 at 4:49 am
Mine was one of the new blogs.
Thank you for providing such an excellent service.
June 16th, 2009 at 5:49 am
Amazing!
June 16th, 2009 at 5:59 am
That is a lot of blogers! I’ve just started to make my blog and I thought you might want a look at it. I am really surprised about the people who logged in!
June 16th, 2009 at 11:21 am
Good work. Viva WordPress!
June 16th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
wow!! great stats
8,625,931 comments ??? ohh my
June 16th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
Keep it comin!
June 16th, 2009 at 8:24 pm
Thanks for everything you do — I started my blog in April and have been really enjoying the experience. WordPress.com has made it fun for me, and easy to concentrate on content rather than technical issues. I am very grateful for this free and accessible forum!
June 16th, 2009 at 9:38 pm
So many numbers, so little time.
June 16th, 2009 at 10:24 pm
amazing amounts.. Bless wordpress datacenters ;D (and it`s team too )
June 16th, 2009 at 11:20 pm
amazing digits
wordpress is (very) growing day by day 
thanks for this great blogging service…
June 17th, 2009 at 4:19 am
I was one of the new users, new blogs in May. I’m very happy to be here as overall it seems to work better than blogger where, like many I guess, I started my first blog. Thanks for all your hard work.
June 17th, 2009 at 7:41 am
Congratulations for this. I has been invited so many friends to join with us. I show the quality of wordpress, usability, and as good to participate of this comunity.
June 17th, 2009 at 9:01 pm
Before using wordpress I was just dreaming to start like this. WordPress doing a great job and its figures shows how famours and rapidly becoming number 1 choice for not only blogers but it becoming as CMS as well.
Well done WORDPRESS and keep it up.
Kashmir Portal
June 18th, 2009 at 5:05 am
very fantastic
June 18th, 2009 at 9:18 am
May has brought a world of cheer, in the zone of economy, in the prism of seasons, and in the composition of wordpress. The platform, for liberal opinion and expression of thoughts, is growing in a stupendous speed.
Keep it up.
June 18th, 2009 at 12:27 pm
Awesome job!
June 18th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
Wow! The stats are quite impressive. I thoroughly enjoy my experience blogging with WordPress and have found many of the blogs that I have read to be quite entertaining.
June 18th, 2009 at 7:22 pm
I don’t understand why there won’t be any more wrap-ups, or why you’re sorry. Is WordPress going out of existence?
June 22nd, 2009 at 8:23 pm
I think you may have misread the post… Matt apologized for the post being *late* not for being *last*.
June 18th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
awesome work guys!
June 19th, 2009 at 5:33 am
Yay!
June 19th, 2009 at 6:35 am
Great job! Looking forward to more improvements; specifically themes
Cheers to the staff of WordPress & associated members.
June 19th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
nice work!
June 19th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
Even though i moved to my own domain, i still use WordPress. Am so impressed by the countless widgets, themes, plugins and stuff that you guys provide.
WordPress rocks
June 19th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
Great to see all these great new features. I am looking very forward to the MU merge!
June 19th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
Thanks A Great Deal
June 19th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
I echo Cello’s response. Those are amazing numbers. Great work and congratulations!
June 19th, 2009 at 9:27 pm
cool
June 20th, 2009 at 12:32 am
That’s a lot of comments for one month!
June 20th, 2009 at 1:05 am
nice good job and wonderful stats
June 20th, 2009 at 6:13 am
I do think that your work is awesome too.
June 20th, 2009 at 8:12 am
whoa.. that many..
June 20th, 2009 at 10:02 am
Your hard work is very appreciated, and I know I speak for many WP bloggers. The choice to go with wordpress as a blogging platform was clear… and updates as you have listed proves that decision was correct.
Thank You
June 20th, 2009 at 5:26 pm
GREAT WORK ITS GOOD KNOW THINGS ARE CHANGING.
June 20th, 2009 at 5:49 pm
I can’t believe it!
Best wishes!:)
June 20th, 2009 at 6:43 pm
Thank you for the great support, talent and artistry.
When it come to do a blog “there can be only one” WordPress
June 20th, 2009 at 7:14 pm
great job guys!
i love you all
June 20th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
greatness of wrap-up here it is!
June 20th, 2009 at 10:55 pm
You guys must have a lot of server space
(Did I do that smiley right?)
June 21st, 2009 at 6:03 am
Kudos
June 21st, 2009 at 9:45 am
ThankYou and keep up the good work. Pls do something about the spam. These days its on the rise.
June 22nd, 2009 at 8:30 pm
All WordPress.com blogs run Akismet to filter spam, which is very effective. If you think you are getting a lot of spam, please contact support so they can check your blog to make sure everything is working as it should.
June 21st, 2009 at 12:11 pm
It sounds like you did some really useful upgrades this month! Woohoo!! Now, if I were a bit more computer literate, I may be able to take advantage of them! This granny has a hard enough time “up (or down?) loading” pictures, muchless trying to figure out video’s! (You tube scares me!) I do have fun writing blogs though, and it sounds “buck” to be able to post a blog from e-mail! I may have to investigate that feature some day!
June 21st, 2009 at 12:43 pm
keep up the good work
June 21st, 2009 at 2:45 pm
Really cool keep it up!
June 21st, 2009 at 11:29 pm
Love the Site guys, great job!
June 22nd, 2009 at 6:37 pm
all that work to compile wrap up stats…thanks for keeping up with the details. It is appreciated…now go and have some summer fun.
June 22nd, 2009 at 7:43 pm
nice work guys …………………
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:18 pm
Thanks Matt,
You guys are great. The service is excellent. I am not an IT wiz but I am able to blog comfortably.
About a month ago I had at least 100 reasons to start a blog. Today I wonder what my live would be like without it. Some of my readers tell me how much they appreciate my posts…I could not reach them with my thoughts and insights if it was not for WordPress. My readers have also inspired and motivated me to write my first book. Wow!
I hope I will get a chance to attend one of your WordCamps one day.
June 23rd, 2009 at 10:22 am
The stats are quite impressive. I thoroughly enjoy my experience blogging with Word Press and have found many of the blogs that I have read to be quite entertaining.
June 23rd, 2009 at 11:14 am
Great numbers!
Congratulations!!! YEAH!
June 23rd, 2009 at 4:21 pm
Hi Matt thats some long comment but it was great
June 24th, 2009 at 2:54 am
wow, it’s wonderfull….
June 24th, 2009 at 8:08 am
Hey Just joined in and started posting.Look forward to be part of this huge community
June 24th, 2009 at 1:22 pm
nice numbers! congrats on all the good work…but still no way to post blog posts to facebook
June 24th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
Good news: We have a Facebook app already! Check it out.
June 24th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
good… congratulations….
June 24th, 2009 at 11:35 pm
Post by e-mail is the best feature ever! Thank you so much for making life so easy! Now I can write a post anywhere on my phone and post it. Amazing!
June 25th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
The thing is, as soon as a person find a provider as good as WordPress, millions other also find it. And then you become a star in the universe! billions and billions of stars out there! Unless I sell sex, or do the game thing or the celeb thing, a site is a site. Like mine, and a million more. We get the casual passerby click, somebody is surfing, and we get a click. And then the clicker see that the site he/she clicked does not do the things I have mentioned, and the clcker moves on. A bit like when I check some of the spammers I get on my site. You click, you see, you do not like, delete, and then you move on.
Bamboric
June 30th, 2009 at 10:02 am
Blogging in general is a growing form of online publishing. I would suggest checking out our tips on increasing traffic to help you get noticed
June 26th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
Oh Hi!
My new website was one of the thousands created! I actually got more people on my web! Thank you for making this! Good work! You have really earned and deserved it! Nice stats! (:
June 27th, 2009 at 3:13 am
nice, congratulation!
June 27th, 2009 at 4:35 am
Thanks for your hard work. I very glad that I joined wordpress.
June 27th, 2009 at 7:13 am
well this is a relief, to know that this site is in fact a thriving blog provider.. becuae i just started and have no idea. (help this little guy OUT!) plz come to my blog and advise me. anyone
June 30th, 2009 at 9:59 am
If you need tips on getting started, I suggest checking out our Support pages, which provide overviews of tons of our features.
June 27th, 2009 at 11:24 pm
Congratulations to you and wordpress.
June 28th, 2009 at 12:27 am
Fantastic update, keep up the great work
June 28th, 2009 at 4:07 am
You guys and girls are on the money!