November Wrap-Up
Howdy! — or should I say “g’day, mate!” since I’m in Sydney for WordCamp Australia? November was a fun month, and the final month of development for WordPress 2.7 — coming very soon. It’s been an exciting process, and we think you’ll become a big fan of the changes that you’ll see in your dashboards.
Here are the stats from November:
- 315,405 blogs were created.
- 334,578 new users joined.
- 3,896,520 file uploads.
- 1930.90 gigabytes of new files.
- 562 terabytes of content transferred from our datacenters.
- 8,072,704 comments.
- 6,567,942 logins.
- 994,340,222 pageviews on WordPress.com, and another 777,087,121 on self-hosted blogs (1,771,427,343 total across all WordPress blogs we track).
- 1,463,666 active blogs and 17,433,783 active posts where “active” means they got a human visitor.
- 1,083,163,397 words.
Plus:
Mobile posts are on the rise: you made 44,265 posts to WordPress from a mobile device in November — up from 35,016 the month before.
You’ve been checking out WordPress blogs through the LinkedIn app: 1,169,596 views were generated by links from your LinkedIn profiles and homepages this month.
TIME’s Liveblog Election ’08 site, powered by WordPress.com VIP, provided insightful and funny to-the-minute coverage during the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election.
Some of you wrote your first opus and posted it to your blog during National Novel Writing Month. Congrats!
November WordCamps: Argentina, Charlotte (North Carolina), Tel Aviv, WordCamp Ed (Washington, D.C.), Australia, Spain.
Upcoming WordCamps in December: None! Enjoy the holidays. We’ll see you at WordCamp Las Vegas, WordCamp Indonesia, and WordCamp Whistler (BC, Canada) in January.
- December 2, 2008
- Wrapup
WordPress.com News 
first!
This month was a great one.
I can’t wait for wp 2.7
Whenever it launches, hopefully sometime this month.
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Yeehaw! Go WordPress!
BTW, I can’t wait for 2.7. Please end the suspense.
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Imposing…
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This is great news!! I love being just another number!! I’m proud of you, matt!! Have fun in Sydney and check out my first blog post if ya like!! :3
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Good Wrap, Sweet November 🙂
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Hi Matt,
Thanks for coming to Sydney for the Wordcamp Australia. It was great having you & the other Automattic crew in town.
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whoa. thats a lot of words. 🙂 1,083,163,397… and to think i helped with some of that!
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Can’t wait for version 2.7!!
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Is Wordcamp India on the radar? WP simple cannot ignore it, can it?
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Great Stats!
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Great stats again !!!
Looking forward for WP 2.7 now.
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Thanks WordPress! I didn’t know I could mobile post until now ;’)
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wickeeed!
now that you have such prestigious clients – will the rest of us who aren’t paying you become third class bloggsters?
smallish iz beautiful innit? but there’s not enough money in it, innit
Time will tell…..
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@hoh: WordPress *is* its community. We look to you all for feedback and inspiration. No changes will come to the attention and appreciation we give .com users from any partnerships we may have.
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Horay,
Wordcamp will be held in Indonesia!!!!
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Wow…Wordpress keeps on growing. Thanks for your tremendous effort!
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Always getting bigger,huh? Means there’re bigger chances for everyone, I feel lucky by joining WordPress.
Thx…
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Go down under!!! (Australia)
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Great to see so many wordcamps reaching different parts of the world. I actually live in Australia so how about that. I’m glad to hear the 2.7 will be coming out soon! Thanks for the great service
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G’day Matt, from Adelaide. Hope your enjoying your Aussie vacation!
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Well what do you say.. Keep it up Mate 🙂
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now that is a lot of words, posts, new users… wordpress is the best!!
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How come every month there are so many blogs created? Haha. Wonder what is the average lifespan of each blog? (by lifespan I mean the average maintaining days/weeks/years where the “admin” actually still visits his/her blog)
Anyway, I’ve been waiting for these. Just looking at those numbers and.. man.. Congrats, GJ WP! ;P
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Very impressive. Congrats and all the best.
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Welcome to my city! 🙂
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I’m thrilled with WordPress since moving here. Thanks everyone.
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Australians are actually more likely to say, “Sup?” than “G’day, mate.” It’s part of the trade off that we make in return for iPods and the secret recipe for how to make hamburgers.
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Just a tiny 5,659,778 pageviews short of 1B mark. 😉
Let’s beat this 1B mark again by Christmas!
We did it in October already!
Happy surfing! 🙂
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WOW! THATS A LOT!
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hello the stats are impressive ,hope 2 start bloggin very soon.-ifenna
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WOW! The amount of data transferred keeps going up every month!! 😀
Just awesome!
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growing growing growing… good to see this place is still keeping strong with lots of momentum….i’m always sure to promote wordpress as the “BEST” blog/informational site out there…
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Sweet!
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Congrats, Matt. I still consider myself a cyber-neophyte, but learning as I go.
Yours is probably the most user friendly, elegant sites I’ve encountered in the last five years.
Look forward to many more.
Cheers, and watch out for those Koalas – they’re not as cuddly as they look!
Ladybard
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Hi Matt! How are you? I’m Thel from Davao City, Philippines. I’ve been using wordpress for such a time now. Hope to see you soon here in Davao.
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Wow!..Proud to be part of those stats!
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Thanks, WordPress Team, for your work this November!
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Yay! I’m so happy I’m part of the “new users joined” stats! 😀
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great november!!!
congratulations
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Thank you for an awesome opportunity to voice our ideas and dreams on a worldwide medium.
Let me know when you will have a WordPress event in New Zealand.
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WordPress 2.7 will be Great! i seriousley can’t wait.
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Great Stats!
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Like everyone else I can’t wait for 2.7 … lots of people gonna appreciate it!
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Wow that’s a lot of stats!
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Wow, these numbers… ever felt insignificant? Nope? Time to start just right now :o)
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the stats are great
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Can you publish those numbers for whole 2008? Month by month? I will be writing book about blogs next year and graph(s) from those numbers will be nice addition 🙂
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thats great still waiting for WP 2.7………
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Go wordpress!,
Wordcamp will be held in Indonesia
great november! congratulations
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Great November, December will be even better!
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WHOA! Good Job! [:
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I’m liking wordpress much,but I’m being spammed like crazy from strange certificates?
Can something be done about it?
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Awesome. 🙂
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Congratulations!!! …Desde Sonora, Mexico
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# 562 terabytes of content transferred from our datacenters.
huuuu 😀
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Sounds Good !!
Impressive WordPress
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WOW! THATS A LOT!
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Great Nov.wrap-up! expecting more this month also.
Congrats………Ka Na Kalyan
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wow
looking forward to blavatar stats in Dec wrap up!
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Very cool! I’m glad I’m one of the November stats… 🙂
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What big numbers!
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what about a Scottish Wordcamp?
Count me in..(if it’s not too techy)
Mark
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Wow i like the new dashboard 😉
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Sort of like looking at a 747 cockpit at first, but then I found screen options. Very sweet!!
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Is there a way to change the dashboard back? I hate it so much and it has been frustrating me for hours!
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Nope, sorry.
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Bloody cool statistics, mate!
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woahhhhhhhhhhhhhh, and yeah, us Aussies are more likely to say “sup” than “g’day mate”. And now that I’ve ruined my stereotype for today, I’ve gotta go fix my tractor or else I’ll have to ride me kangaroo to work again tomorrow.
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Love the new upgrade! Glad I made the switch to wordpress.com!
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Having just mastered WordPress enough to launch my blog and just got used to the old dashboard, the changes when I logged in this morning really threw me. Embracing change isn’t always easy but better than the alternative so I’ll WordPress on!
Wendy Buckingham
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Great! Just started new blog. Still learning. All the best to WordPress and thank you.
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Great!
wanna try wp 2.7 soon =P I saw it today on my uncle’s blog, looks sweet.
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btw I always recommend to those “other kinds of blog” users to migrate to wp, like wendy said, let’s wp on!
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I finally learned how to make WordPress work for me – and boom:
I can’t read the editing page – the new format is too narrow for
me to work intelligibly
Suddenly photos don’t upload any more.
Why do you spring this stuff on us.
Give us the option to use what we know.
All change is not always progress.
Too much change just messes up the fixes we have learned
how to use.
Why can’t we edit the layout of the Page names in the header
directly??
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woooo, nicee
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Wow ! Great !
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Damn! Only read about the Sydney conference now. So close yet still so far.
Hope the next one down under is in Melbourne!
Doin’ what we can to improve those stats!
Now have to start using my new iPhone to up those mobile pressing stats 🙂
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Oh, I forgot the TABS
I used to work in the editor and check back the previous result
by using a tab
now there are no more tabs (WordPress is still set for tabs).
I could fix a couple of things and then check back for the
next couple – and so do 8 or 9 things before the time consuming
SAVE (now UPDATE).
No I an only do one or two – if I can see the editing page
without 5 or 6 more clicks to make it visible at all.’
(ONE column visible is MUCH too NARROW.)
Not all of us are as YOUNG as YOU. Our memories don’t
work so well.
I know it’s impossible to put yourself in our place.
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i love wordpress ever since i found this… but one thing i cant do is how to put music in my blog? i tried to put the music codes but nothin happen in short not working 😦 … by the way am only free subscriber on this… hoping me that theres someone teach me how to put music on my blog.
wordpress is best.
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Thanks for restoring the Tabs.
Now if we could make the right hand Publish column narrower
(It doesn’t really need width)
and the edit workspace wider
ALL WOULD BE WELL
Thanks again
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Wow! Amazing Stats.
I’m new to wordpress. I should have been here a long time before!
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i am a new joiniee ,very comfortable.
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oh good news for us thanks for porviding spece.
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Impressive… most impressive…
Congrats, and may the Force be with you, hehehe…
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Just too good. XD
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Only correct that WordCamp Spain will be celebrated on Saturday 20th December at Citilab de Cornellà.
The entrance will be free and there will be a lot of surprises!!!
Cheers!
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