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.
- August 5, 2009
- Wrapup
WordPress.com News 
Wowie!
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Wow, over five and a half million posts. Too bad only four of those were mine.
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394,609 blogs were created. Blogs, good, every day we are more!……………….
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awesome stuff, keep up the great work! My movie blog has really taken ff thanks to these great features!
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wow…. lots…. lots of numbers! :O
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Still waiting for the Austrian WordCamps to come … 😉
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I love the Gravitar widget and the ratings option.Bravo chaps 😉
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Hopefully the ‘August Wrap-up’ will include great news about a new ‘EVENTS CALENDAR’ for wp.com users !!
(hint, hint)
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50+ Posts were mine! 😀
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Based on the above numbers, the average post length for july was 250.5 words. I know, I know. Your welcome.
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That is a lot of posts!
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Whoa! WordPress is growing rapidly in numbers 🙂
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That’s A LOT of files.
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Looks like I got aboard a developing blog site!
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Congrats!
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Wooo!!!! I guess I’ll be in next month’s number
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Great! GO WordPress.com!
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Bravo!
I suggest that WP put the ‘active blogs’ stat first on the list.
We should be proud of that 🙂
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We are growing by leaps and bounds! 🙂
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That’s a whole list of superb number! Whale Done!
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I can’t keep up with WordPress’s improvements~~~!
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3,762 gigabytes of new files
wow! that’s loads of files! 😀
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Need less to say..WP is the Best…!
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❤ ❤ ❤ blogging at wordpress ! 😀
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Approximately 8 million comments. Wow!
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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!
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*waiting for the new themes*
🙂
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wp rock, love it. but don’t sell it to some internet giant
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cool!
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so many posts!
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Sounds like another good month! And this reminds me, I really need to give those polls a try.
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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
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Cool!!
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An awesome month for the WP team! Thank you for all your hard work, guys! 😀
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Wish WordPress to grow more and more
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hmmm…i am impressed 🙂
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WordPress is the best.
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Pfffioooooooouu!*
*positive comment! 🙂
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Wowzers ! Fantastic news !
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congrats! 🙂
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More themes please, u promise us remember? (magazine / grid would be nice)
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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.
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Please contact support for help with your blog. Provide all appropriate details, and we will get everything straightened out for you.
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19 posts are mine!
keep up the good work
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If you have something to say, use your words to keep the blog pipeline full! If you are curious, read, read, read.
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Wow – you’re talking in BILLIONS now? Very cool
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Damn!!!…..I didn’t realize there was that many blogs out there…well just on wordpress.com at least.
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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!
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thaTs GREAT!!!!..
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[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]
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Wow that’s a lot
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wow a great number
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Lots of huge numbers…
keep it up
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nice…. 😀
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wow…so many…cool…
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Nothing run like WordPress!
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Wow, I jsut about missed out with mine by a few days but that’s some impressive stats right there…
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Wow some really huge numbers there :O
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I’m so happy to be apart of WordPress. The site is so wonderful for a blog. Thank you a lot.
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Great job 🙂
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That’s great. I’m glad I joined a winning team.
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impressive numbers
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Great… keep on doing a great job
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nice… i love it
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Bravo !
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awesome stats
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God, so beautiful numbers!
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Wov, its amazing
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I’m beginning to have the feel of blogging…. gonna add more effort to populate!
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Just joined…much impressed!
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That’s a lot of people!
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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.
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i am happy to know this, made a good decision.
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That’s all great news. It feels pretty good to be part of a winning team. Nice going.
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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.
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Keep up the good work and look forward to some of your new adds.
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WP for Palm Pre. Please?
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WOW. thats so much…!!!
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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!
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Love the new look on the welcome page
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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!
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Thanks for the suggestion. We’ll keep that in mind for future changes 🙂
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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”.
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Well, there are contributions of mine there, aswell 😀
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WordPress never fails to amaze me!
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i was 1/ 394,609 blogs were created. =)
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Welcome to all the new users. I’m sure you will enjoy sharing your thoughts at WordPress. Add to the great experience of writing.
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You guys are the best
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wow. congratulations wordpress! 🙂
millions more will join!
more users would mean different experiences, different knowledge. more things get done
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Whoa! WordPress is growing rapidly in numbers
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very amazing 🙂
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WOW!! Thats fantastic. Go WordPress
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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.
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Amaziiiiiiiiiiing!!!!!!! – I bet the number have changed for even more (since each second has a new blog being created).
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Great work guy’s and thanks for providing such a great platform.
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congrats wordpress!!!
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wow , what e great numbers !!
keep of doing a great job.
best regards.
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WOW!!!!!!!!
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