July Wrap-Up
We kicked off July with an open vote on new media features. Thanks to all of you who voted and submitted comments. Your feedback determines the future of WordPress.
Later in the month we introduced PollDaddy ratings and polls, the Gravatar widget, and the archives shortcode (one of many you can check out here).
Here are July’s stats:
- 394,609 blogs were created.
- 5,666,839 posts were published.
- 418,946 new users joined.
- 6,594,795 file uploads.
- 3,762 gigabytes of new files.
- 839 terabytes of content transferred from our datacenters.
- 7,890,707 comments.
- 6,681,646 logins.
- 1,253,217,900 pageviews on WordPress.com, and another 1,289,187,116 on self-hosted blogs (2,542,405,016
total across all WordPress blogs we track). - 2,146,576 active blogs where “active” means they got a human visitor.
- 1,419,364,230 words.
Plus:
5,035 posts via the new WordPress for BlackBerry Public Beta.
WNET.ORG published a whitepaper about their experience launching multiple sites with WordPress MU.
Telegraph blogs relaunched using WordPress MU; FADER relaunched using WordPress; and Tasty Kitchen launched a community site on the BuddyPress platform.
WordCamps in July: WordCamp Montreal and WordCamp UK.
WordCamps coming up in August: WordCamp New Zealand and WordCamp Huntsville.
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August 5th, 2009 at 7:10 pm
Wowie!
August 5th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
Wow, over five and a half million posts. Too bad only four of those were mine.
August 5th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
394,609 blogs were created. Blogs, good, every day we are more!……………….
August 5th, 2009 at 7:37 pm
awesome stuff, keep up the great work! My movie blog has really taken ff thanks to these great features!
August 5th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
wow…. lots…. lots of numbers! :O
August 5th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
Still waiting for the Austrian WordCamps to come …
August 5th, 2009 at 7:42 pm
I love the Gravitar widget and the ratings option.Bravo chaps
August 5th, 2009 at 8:31 pm
Hopefully the ‘August Wrap-up’ will include great news about a new ‘EVENTS CALENDAR’ for wp.com users !!
(hint, hint)
August 5th, 2009 at 8:42 pm
50+ Posts were mine!
August 5th, 2009 at 9:18 pm
Based on the above numbers, the average post length for july was 250.5 words. I know, I know. Your welcome.
August 5th, 2009 at 9:37 pm
That is a lot of posts!
August 5th, 2009 at 9:51 pm
Whoa! WordPress is growing rapidly in numbers
August 5th, 2009 at 9:56 pm
That’s A LOT of files.
August 5th, 2009 at 11:46 pm
Looks like I got aboard a developing blog site!
August 6th, 2009 at 12:00 am
Congrats!
August 6th, 2009 at 12:34 am
Wooo!!!! I guess I’ll be in next month’s number
August 6th, 2009 at 12:45 am
Great! GO WordPress.com!
August 6th, 2009 at 1:17 am
Bravo!
I suggest that WP put the ‘active blogs’ stat first on the list.
We should be proud of that
August 6th, 2009 at 1:22 am
We are growing by leaps and bounds!
August 6th, 2009 at 1:23 am
That’s a whole list of superb number! Whale Done!
August 6th, 2009 at 1:26 am
I can’t keep up with WordPress’s improvements~~~!
August 6th, 2009 at 3:49 am
3,762 gigabytes of new files wow! that’s loads of files!
August 6th, 2009 at 4:06 am
Need less to say..WP is the Best…!
August 6th, 2009 at 4:13 am
<3 <3 <3 blogging at wordpress !
August 6th, 2009 at 4:31 am
Approximately 8 million comments. Wow!
August 6th, 2009 at 4:51 am
I’m doing my best to keep those numbers up: I wrote 41 posts last month and I’m guessing at least 40,000 of those words are mine!
August 6th, 2009 at 4:54 am
*waiting for the new themes*
August 6th, 2009 at 7:23 am
wp rock, love it. but don’t sell it to some internet giant
August 6th, 2009 at 7:43 am
cool!
August 6th, 2009 at 7:58 am
so many posts!
August 6th, 2009 at 8:32 am
Sounds like another good month! And this reminds me, I really need to give those polls a try.
August 6th, 2009 at 8:42 am
I am curious…how many people stopped blogging i.e closed their WP accounts. I am sure there must also be some people who stopped blogging
August 6th, 2009 at 9:01 am
Cool!!
August 6th, 2009 at 10:51 am
An awesome month for the WP team! Thank you for all your hard work, guys!
August 6th, 2009 at 11:08 am
Wish WordPress to grow more and more
August 6th, 2009 at 11:59 am
hmmm…i am impressed
August 6th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
WordPress is the best.
August 6th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
Pfffioooooooouu!*
*positive comment!
August 6th, 2009 at 3:21 pm
Wowzers ! Fantastic news !
August 6th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
congrats!
August 6th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
More themes please, u promise us remember? (magazine / grid would be nice)
August 6th, 2009 at 5:42 pm
Please help. I started a blog. Made one post but it does not show up anywhere–even when I search wordpress. I’ve done blogs with you before–but it’s been a few months. I need help.
August 6th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
Please contact support for help with your blog. Provide all appropriate details, and we will get everything straightened out for you.
August 6th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
19 posts are mine!
keep up the good work
August 6th, 2009 at 9:00 pm
If you have something to say, use your words to keep the blog pipeline full! If you are curious, read, read, read.
August 6th, 2009 at 9:44 pm
Wow – you’re talking in BILLIONS now? Very cool
August 6th, 2009 at 11:08 pm
Damn!!!…..I didn’t realize there was that many blogs out there…well just on wordpress.com at least.
August 7th, 2009 at 2:23 am
agree with Mas Gaptek, more themes please! I am looking up to flexible width with 3 and 4 columns. WP is so advancing and awesome. So wonderful to be here with you such a great team. Cool!
August 7th, 2009 at 3:01 am
thaTs GREAT!!!!..
August 7th, 2009 at 3:52 am
[haha, I love these, I've done one for my blog cause
it's been around for a year now, which is surprising
that I've kept it that long]
August 7th, 2009 at 4:27 am
Wow that’s a lot
August 7th, 2009 at 5:55 am
wow a great number
August 7th, 2009 at 8:47 am
Lots of huge numbers…
keep it up
August 7th, 2009 at 9:08 am
nice….
August 7th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
wow…so many…cool…
August 7th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
Nothing run like WordPress!
August 7th, 2009 at 2:02 pm
Wow, I jsut about missed out with mine by a few days but that’s some impressive stats right there…
August 7th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
Wow some really huge numbers there :O
August 7th, 2009 at 3:02 pm
I’m so happy to be apart of WordPress. The site is so wonderful for a blog. Thank you a lot.
August 7th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
Great job
August 7th, 2009 at 6:50 pm
That’s great. I’m glad I joined a winning team.
August 8th, 2009 at 1:42 am
impressive numbers
August 8th, 2009 at 6:30 am
Great… keep on doing a great job
August 8th, 2009 at 6:53 am
nice… i love it
August 8th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
Bravo !
August 9th, 2009 at 3:40 am
awesome stats
August 9th, 2009 at 5:01 am
God, so beautiful numbers!
August 9th, 2009 at 6:18 am
Wov, its amazing
August 9th, 2009 at 7:17 am
I’m beginning to have the feel of blogging…. gonna add more effort to populate!
August 9th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
Just joined…much impressed!
August 10th, 2009 at 4:48 am
That’s a lot of people!
August 10th, 2009 at 5:35 am
wow, so great.My best wishes for world press. Happy to be part of world press..its really a good blogs.. i feel to have more education related blog.
August 10th, 2009 at 7:38 am
i am happy to know this, made a good decision.
August 10th, 2009 at 9:57 am
That’s all great news. It feels pretty good to be part of a winning team. Nice going.
August 10th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
You guys ROCK. the ever expending options are super. I love blogging here, and especially love learning about my crowd through your wonderful analytical tools.
August 10th, 2009 at 8:38 pm
Keep up the good work and look forward to some of your new adds.
August 10th, 2009 at 9:23 pm
WP for Palm Pre. Please?
August 10th, 2009 at 9:31 pm
WOW. thats so much…!!!
August 10th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
Woo! I started 2 blogs last month, so there’s about 60 posts between them at least. I was never a blogger, but now I love them. More themes would be great! I’d really love to be able to add flash as well, but I’m guessing that won’t happen. Oh well, great site though, I love it!
August 11th, 2009 at 7:57 am
Love the new look on the welcome page
August 11th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
Would be kind of nice to have the running total wordcount for my own blog, actually. Any chance you could stick that in somewhere on the stats page? Would be something nice to boast about!
August 13th, 2009 at 11:17 am
Thanks for the suggestion. We’ll keep that in mind for future changes
August 11th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
I remain very fond of WordPress. But of late, I have encouraged two friends to start blogs on WordPress, and they have both said: “it’s very slow compared to blogger”, and “the themes really need work”.
August 11th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
Well, there are contributions of mine there, aswell
August 11th, 2009 at 8:50 pm
WordPress never fails to amaze me!
August 11th, 2009 at 9:20 pm
i was 1/ 394,609 blogs were created. =)
August 11th, 2009 at 10:43 pm
Welcome to all the new users. I’m sure you will enjoy sharing your thoughts at WordPress. Add to the great experience of writing.
August 12th, 2009 at 1:21 am
You guys are the best
August 12th, 2009 at 10:44 am
wow. congratulations wordpress!
millions more will join!
more users would mean different experiences, different knowledge. more things get done
August 12th, 2009 at 5:26 pm
Whoa! WordPress is growing rapidly in numbers
August 12th, 2009 at 9:41 pm
very amazing
August 13th, 2009 at 2:33 am
WOW!! Thats fantastic. Go WordPress
August 13th, 2009 at 3:51 am
Alls well and good, but WordPress should deal with WORD and writing issues. WordPress has not addressed the following issues:
1) Spell Check STILL doesn’t work properly. It stops checking during the correction process, and eliminates spaces between words after the 2nd or thrid try at checking the spelling
2) There is no spell check for comments.
3) The search button is really basic and bad. tie in google search to WordPress.
4) Allow us to fix titles (font sizes) and headers on the blog without using CSI programming upgrade modules.
I am a power user and love WordPress, but you guys have to resolve the basic issues.
August 13th, 2009 at 4:26 am
Amaziiiiiiiiiiing!!!!!!! – I bet the number have changed for even more (since each second has a new blog being created).
August 13th, 2009 at 8:00 am
Great work guy’s and thanks for providing such a great platform.
August 13th, 2009 at 8:09 am
congrats wordpress!!!
August 13th, 2009 at 8:45 am
wow , what e great numbers !!
keep of doing a great job.
best regards.
August 13th, 2009 at 8:48 am
WOW!!!!!!!!