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.
Aug 5th at 7:10 pm
Wowie!
Aug 5th at 7:16 pm
Wow, over five and a half million posts. Too bad only four of those were mine.
Aug 5th at 7:24 pm
394,609 blogs were created. Blogs, good, every day we are more!……………….
Aug 5th at 7:37 pm
awesome stuff, keep up the great work! My movie blog has really taken ff thanks to these great features!
Aug 5th at 7:39 pm
wow…. lots…. lots of numbers! :O
Aug 5th at 7:40 pm
Still waiting for the Austrian WordCamps to come …
Aug 5th at 7:42 pm
I love the Gravitar widget and the ratings option.Bravo chaps
Aug 5th at 8:31 pm
Hopefully the ‘August Wrap-up’ will include great news about a new ‘EVENTS CALENDAR’ for wp.com users !!
(hint, hint)
Aug 5th at 8:42 pm
50+ Posts were mine!
Aug 5th 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.
Aug 5th at 9:37 pm
That is a lot of posts!
Aug 5th at 9:51 pm
Whoa! WordPress is growing rapidly in numbers
Aug 5th at 9:56 pm
That’s A LOT of files.
Aug 5th at 11:46 pm
Looks like I got aboard a developing blog site!
Aug 6th at 12:00 am
Congrats!
Aug 6th at 12:34 am
Wooo!!!! I guess I’ll be in next month’s number
Aug 6th at 12:45 am
Great! GO WordPress.com!
Aug 6th at 1:17 am
Bravo!
I suggest that WP put the ‘active blogs’ stat first on the list.
We should be proud of that
Aug 6th at 1:22 am
We are growing by leaps and bounds!
Aug 6th at 1:23 am
That’s a whole list of superb number! Whale Done!
Aug 6th at 1:26 am
I can’t keep up with WordPress’s improvements~~~!
Aug 6th at 3:49 am
3,762 gigabytes of new files wow! that’s loads of files!
Aug 6th at 4:06 am
Need less to say..WP is the Best…!
Aug 6th at 4:13 am
<3 <3 <3 blogging at wordpress !
Aug 6th at 4:31 am
Approximately 8 million comments. Wow!
Aug 6th 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!
Aug 6th at 4:54 am
*waiting for the new themes*
Aug 6th at 7:23 am
wp rock, love it. but don’t sell it to some internet giant
Aug 6th at 7:43 am
cool!
Aug 6th at 7:58 am
so many posts!
Aug 6th at 8:32 am
Sounds like another good month! And this reminds me, I really need to give those polls a try.
Aug 6th 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
Aug 6th at 9:01 am
Cool!!
Aug 6th at 10:51 am
An awesome month for the WP team! Thank you for all your hard work, guys!
Aug 6th at 11:08 am
Wish WordPress to grow more and more
Aug 6th at 11:59 am
hmmm…i am impressed
Aug 6th at 12:53 pm
WordPress is the best.
Aug 6th at 2:42 pm
Pfffioooooooouu!*
*positive comment!
Aug 6th at 3:21 pm
Wowzers ! Fantastic news !
Aug 6th at 3:34 pm
congrats!
Aug 6th at 4:31 pm
More themes please, u promise us remember? (magazine / grid would be nice)
Aug 6th 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.
Aug 6th 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.
Aug 6th at 6:17 pm
19 posts are mine!
keep up the good work
Aug 6th 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.
Aug 6th at 9:44 pm
Wow – you’re talking in BILLIONS now? Very cool
Aug 6th at 11:08 pm
Damn!!!…..I didn’t realize there was that many blogs out there…well just on wordpress.com at least.
Aug 7th 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!
Aug 7th at 3:01 am
thaTs GREAT!!!!..
Aug 7th 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]
Aug 7th at 4:27 am
Wow that’s a lot
Aug 7th at 5:55 am
wow a great number
Aug 7th at 8:47 am
Lots of huge numbers…
keep it up
Aug 7th at 9:08 am
nice….
Aug 7th at 12:07 pm
wow…so many…cool…
Aug 7th at 12:58 pm
Nothing run like WordPress!
Aug 7th at 2:02 pm
Wow, I jsut about missed out with mine by a few days but that’s some impressive stats right there…
Aug 7th at 2:28 pm
Wow some really huge numbers there :O
Aug 7th 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.
Aug 7th at 6:25 pm
Great job
Aug 7th at 6:50 pm
That’s great. I’m glad I joined a winning team.
Aug 8th at 1:42 am
impressive numbers
Aug 8th at 6:30 am
Great… keep on doing a great job
Aug 8th at 6:53 am
nice… i love it
Aug 8th at 12:44 pm
Bravo !
Aug 9th at 3:40 am
awesome stats
Aug 9th at 5:01 am
God, so beautiful numbers!
Aug 9th at 6:18 am
Wov, its amazing
Aug 9th at 7:17 am
I’m beginning to have the feel of blogging…. gonna add more effort to populate!
Aug 9th at 1:11 pm
Just joined…much impressed!
Aug 10th at 4:48 am
That’s a lot of people!
Aug 10th 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.
Aug 10th at 7:38 am
i am happy to know this, made a good decision.
Aug 10th at 9:57 am
That’s all great news. It feels pretty good to be part of a winning team. Nice going.
Aug 10th 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.
Aug 10th at 8:38 pm
Keep up the good work and look forward to some of your new adds.
Aug 10th at 9:23 pm
WP for Palm Pre. Please?
Aug 10th at 9:31 pm
WOW. thats so much…!!!
Aug 10th 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!
Aug 11th at 7:57 am
Love the new look on the welcome page
Aug 11th 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!
Aug 13th at 11:17 am
Thanks for the suggestion. We’ll keep that in mind for future changes
Aug 11th 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”.
Aug 11th at 4:29 pm
Well, there are contributions of mine there, aswell
Aug 11th at 8:50 pm
WordPress never fails to amaze me!
Aug 11th at 9:20 pm
i was 1/ 394,609 blogs were created. =)
Aug 11th 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.
Aug 12th at 1:21 am
You guys are the best
Aug 12th at 10:44 am
wow. congratulations wordpress!
millions more will join!
more users would mean different experiences, different knowledge. more things get done
Aug 12th at 5:26 pm
Whoa! WordPress is growing rapidly in numbers
Aug 12th at 9:41 pm
very amazing
Aug 13th at 2:33 am
WOW!! Thats fantastic. Go WordPress
Aug 13th 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.
Aug 13th at 4:26 am
Amaziiiiiiiiiiing!!!!!!! – I bet the number have changed for even more (since each second has a new blog being created).
Aug 13th at 8:00 am
Great work guy’s and thanks for providing such a great platform.
Aug 13th at 8:09 am
congrats wordpress!!!
Aug 13th at 8:45 am
wow , what e great numbers !!
keep of doing a great job.
best regards.
Aug 13th at 8:48 am
WOW!!!!!!!!