by Matt
December Wrapup
New month, new wrapup time!
December was slow in some ways, fast in others. Especially fast in how quick the servers were running all month. 
We had a lot of fun around the holidays, here’s what we did last month:
- We made a bunch of our stats public.
- Introduced a paid upgrade that allows you to get more storage.
- The Sonific Songspot widget.
- Made it so you can switch blogs in your stats.
- Made dashboards faster.
- Redesigned the site.
- Allowed gift credits.
- Some typography-geek stuff.
- Tweaked custom CSS.
- Added the Snap Preview Anywhere widget.
- Had fun with tags.
- Lots of themes: Greenery, Fadtastic, 2813, Iceburgg, Vermilion, and added and removed Garland.
December stats: 64k blogs, 68k users, switched themes 359k times, 1.76 million posts, 289k pages, 1 million comments, 3,553 support requests, 393k file uploads, and broke a new record in pageviews, 103 million. (Not counting admin section, images, CSS, RSS feeds, etc.)
January 2nd, 2007 at 10:57 am
Great Jobs Guys! Keep it up!
January 2nd, 2007 at 11:04 am
Wow
January 2nd, 2007 at 11:38 am
January 2nd, 2007 at 11:43 am
WordPress is such a growing community and I’m proud to be part of it.
I’m glad in knowing there’s always room for improvement, because then I won’t have a reason not to like WordPress (it just keeps improving). 
Hoping nicer treats for everyone this 2007 and take care! 
January 2nd, 2007 at 11:46 am
thank you for enriching my blogging experience in the year 2006. hopefully 2007 will bring us more themes, more hits, more wonderful widgets more record-breaking stats and more wonderful blogs to read.
January 2nd, 2007 at 11:49 am
I for one certainly appreciated the changes and updates
happy 2007
mama kelly
January 2nd, 2007 at 11:53 am
success for wordpress!
January 2nd, 2007 at 11:56 am
The servers are definitely killer-fast, Matt! Congrats! You can *feel* the difference in speed.
January 2nd, 2007 at 12:13 pm
Fantastic month for WordPress.com staff and users.
All the best in 2007.
January 2nd, 2007 at 12:42 pm
wow!
good job you do guys!
January 2nd, 2007 at 12:45 pm
cool.. Thanks WP..
January 2nd, 2007 at 12:46 pm
WP rules!!
January 2nd, 2007 at 12:48 pm
congrats! and a happy new year to all wordpresser!
January 2nd, 2007 at 12:58 pm
Good
January 2nd, 2007 at 1:19 pm
Whoa, great jobs, huge amounts of work this month^^
Keep it up^^
January 2nd, 2007 at 1:28 pm
January 2nd, 2007 at 1:43 pm
Thanks very much for everything — all the improvements — everything! Best Wishes to WordPress for 2007.
January 2nd, 2007 at 1:56 pm
Thanks for all the updates!
And I am just blown away by those stats…
January 2nd, 2007 at 2:23 pm
It’s good to be part of WordPress. Thanks for all you do and keep up the good work!
January 2nd, 2007 at 2:30 pm
It feels good to be on WordPress.
January 2nd, 2007 at 3:08 pm
I just started using WordPress. I have to say, I’m impressed with the flexibility. It’s actually the first time in a long time (I think the last was Gmail) I’ve found something free that was totally enjoyable. Thanks!
Congratulations and keep up the good work. I hope the WordPress team’s resolution for 2007 is to come up with more exciting developments for all the users.
I can’t believe I’m such a selfish schmuck.
January 2nd, 2007 at 3:12 pm
I’m glad to be a new member of the WordPress club! Thanks for all of your great work on our behalf.
January 2nd, 2007 at 3:14 pm
Nice job guys. I’m far happier here at WP.com than I was at Blogger. First month, ~65K hits. I’m not complaining at all.
Keep up the good work, and here’s to a happy 2007.
–Jeff
Graceful Flavor
January 2nd, 2007 at 3:26 pm
You know, some people may actually have the Garland theme before WordPress removed it. I hope you only gave people who already have it a ten day chance to switch. I mean, it would look pretty nasty with a whole bunch of missing graphics, wouldn’t it?
January 2nd, 2007 at 3:27 pm
Thanks for all of the efforts to make WordPress the place to be!
January 2nd, 2007 at 3:37 pm
i blog since december and wordpress excedeed my expectations. thank you
January 2nd, 2007 at 3:44 pm
Thanks a lot, guys!
January 2nd, 2007 at 4:04 pm
Matt,
You should probably remove the following from the end of your post:
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY!
N.
January 2nd, 2007 at 4:23 pm
Great job! Hope this progress continues throughout 2007!
January 2nd, 2007 at 4:39 pm
Yep ,looks like most of us were quite busy last month!
January 2nd, 2007 at 5:02 pm
Successful month for wordpress!
Congratulations
but Matt
“Where is snap preview in my blog? “
January 2nd, 2007 at 5:30 pm
I would love to know who switched their theme the most.
January 2nd, 2007 at 5:46 pm
Wooow! Fantastic! great Job!
January 2nd, 2007 at 5:49 pm
The best update I think was the ability to switch blogstats between multiple blogs. A real help. I hope this feature will extend to other dashboard/preferences settings. Thanks for all the work you’re putting in.
January 2nd, 2007 at 6:04 pm
Thanks. Keep up the good work and progress. The monthly wrapups help show what you’ve done recently and help me show others that progress is made, which greatly helps in recruiting new bloggers or recruiting them to use WP. Nice work!
January 2nd, 2007 at 6:31 pm
I didn’t blog anywhere else and am increasingly happy I opted for WP. You guys rock.
January 2nd, 2007 at 6:34 pm
That is absolutely impressive, keep it up!
January 2nd, 2007 at 6:36 pm
Wow! I’m uber late, but here’s to a great year ahead
thank you for WP, Matt!
January 2nd, 2007 at 6:39 pm
I’d like to toot your horn for you, too! I love this place and couldn’t be happier my username somehow went inactive at blogster. I’m just starting my fourth month of blogging and can’t thank you enough for being such congenial hosts!
Now, if only I could learn a little bit of html, I’d be a better guest.
January 2nd, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Thanks for making writing about things I love so easy! Keep up the great work
I look forward to watching WordPress become better in 2007.
January 2nd, 2007 at 7:19 pm
Cool stuff guys! Thanks for all the work you do! Happy 2007
January 2nd, 2007 at 7:31 pm
Yey to the WordPress wizards behind the curtains! Yey to actually listening to people’s suggestions! Yey to another year of great blogging!
January 2nd, 2007 at 9:14 pm
Thanks for being so responsive to blogger request. As I have multiple blogs I found this feature to be a real boon - made it so you can switch blogs in your stats.
January 2nd, 2007 at 9:38 pm
well done! and i just noticed, that jpg, jpeg, png, gif, pdf, doc, ppt files can now be uploaded. it just get’s better and better!
January 2nd, 2007 at 10:10 pm
THANKS for all that hard work !!
January 2nd, 2007 at 10:24 pm
WOW - I took advantage of one of the Christmas themes - all I need to do now is work out which one to replace it with - unless of course you guys have any more hidden up your sleeve?
January 2nd, 2007 at 10:45 pm
Thanks for making blogging so much fun. So attractive. So easy to do.
And, even though I haven’t blogged *anywhere else* … it’s a great place to bring my friends
January 2nd, 2007 at 10:51 pm
Why did you remove Garland? that’s the first one of your 3 column themes I liked.
January 2nd, 2007 at 11:01 pm
P.S. I forgot to tell you how much I like Word Press. Thanks for being so efficient and innovative!
January 2nd, 2007 at 11:07 pm
Every month there is always so much. You must be busy Matt. Well, keep it up because WordPress is the best, but it just keeps getting better and better.
I want to thank you for your hard work, and for the awesome service you provide. I also want to congratulate you for all the success you have seen this past year. Way to go!
January 2nd, 2007 at 11:26 pm
I wonder whats in store for 2007 .. Nice job done!!
January 2nd, 2007 at 11:58 pm
As usual WordPress has done a wonderful job of making our blogging easy, user friendly and fun.
Well done guys
V
January 3rd, 2007 at 12:47 am
Great !
BONNE ANNÉE 2007 À TOUS
January 3rd, 2007 at 2:45 am
Thanks a bunch for working so hard to make WordPress the best it can be! Happy New Years! ^_^
January 3rd, 2007 at 2:51 am
Nice and neat====> well done and Happy 2007
January 3rd, 2007 at 2:57 am
Yay WordPress!! Thanks for all your hard work!
January 3rd, 2007 at 3:31 am
3553 support requests. You guys were definitely busy.
I like the amount of new themes you’ve introduced. Hope there are many more soon.
January 3rd, 2007 at 5:16 am
And bajillions of us out here appreciate all that stuff so much we have to contain ourselves from behaving like seven year olds and running off to all the other blog places and spamming everyone with “nya nya my blog host is better than your blog host” posts.
Seriously though… good job!
January 3rd, 2007 at 6:02 am
1 million comments, half of em here, lol. Thanks for all the stuff anyway
January 3rd, 2007 at 6:34 am
A very impressive summary! Thanks for all the cool features, and for your hard work in making them available to us.
January 3rd, 2007 at 6:44 am
Garland is being removed? Why? I like the font selection of this particular theme, plus the three-column layout is nice. Does this mean I need to change my blog’s theme?
January 3rd, 2007 at 8:33 am
December was a good month for us users too,the Sonific Songspot and the faster dashboards are most welcome.The new themes were good as well.
January 3rd, 2007 at 11:29 am
WordPress Pride =)
Happy new year!
January 3rd, 2007 at 1:14 pm
Great job, guys! I’m glad I discovered WordPress as a newcomer to blogging as I see experienced bloggers making the move to WordPress! I’ve just introduced WordPress to another novice blogger, so there’s now one more WordPress user in the world! Cheers
January 3rd, 2007 at 1:39 pm
Would it be possible to know which was the most popular post of the year ? across every single wordpress.com blog ?
January 3rd, 2007 at 3:11 pm
More and more bloggers are leaving annoying other hosting services and coming to WordPress. Well done! You really care, you give great customer support, and you just keep getting better. Well done! And Akismet keeps us from embarrassing and irrelevant comments selling “services”. Many many thanks.
January 3rd, 2007 at 4:44 pm
What’s going on with the Kubrick theme?
January 3rd, 2007 at 5:06 pm
I too would like to know why you’ve removed Garland. I’ve been begging for a 3-column theme like this and now that you finally have one I like you’re removing it? Get rid of one of the crappy ones instead!
January 3rd, 2007 at 9:41 pm
Wow, those are some pretty hefty stats!
Good going guys - who said php couldn’t scale?
January 3rd, 2007 at 9:42 pm
I for one appreciate the fact that WordPress is so much more reliable than the old blog service I used to use (Blogger). Thanks for being competent!
January 3rd, 2007 at 11:18 pm
What do you mean “removed Garland”? I’m using it now. Is it going to suddenly disappear one of these days?
January 4th, 2007 at 12:35 am
great!
January 4th, 2007 at 4:12 am
Here’s to some more inovations for the New Year!
January 4th, 2007 at 7:04 am
Thats awesome! Love it all.. ^_^
January 4th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
Great
January 5th, 2007 at 9:09 am
You guys are busy..
January 5th, 2007 at 12:10 pm
You guys rock!!
January 5th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
Great job guys. May the coming year bring you continued success. I do miss the stats graph, though, lol!
January 5th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
long life to wordpress
January 5th, 2007 at 8:12 pm
Thanks for everything. We really enjoy using wordpress, Keep up the good work.
January 5th, 2007 at 8:30 pm
a month
two weeks in
december
a burning coal
a pictorial ember
a blog from buzznet
word pressed
new member
January 5th, 2007 at 9:30 pm
Recently moved to WordPress from Blogger and its been fun learning . Thanks for helping me to discover Sonific-it rocks.
January 8th, 2007 at 2:55 am
It’s obvious now that just because Blogger is from Google (the search giant, duh) doesn’t mean that they are the best. I mean, just look at WordPress: the community, the atmosphere… everything is totally! Have a great 2007. My friends have switched from other platforms. I myself have tried b2extension, Blogger, and TypePad, but they are thousands of miles behind what’s WordPress. And by the way, Sonific is totally awesome.
January 8th, 2007 at 8:57 am
I know i account for some of those stats listed, thanks for the great work WP!
January 9th, 2007 at 12:23 am
Thanks Guys…When Sebastian Prooth convinced me that I should have a blog and set me up with WordPress six months ago, I never thought it would be so easy or I’d have so much fun! My mind is clear and free to concentrate on interesting content to keep people coming back.
I never thought I’d get 200,000 hits so quickly!
Happy New Year, Artie Wayne On The Web
January 9th, 2007 at 3:48 am
Very very well done. You guys are true proffesionals! It’s great to be here.
January 9th, 2007 at 4:43 am
i really have to commend you people for such a wonderful service. I have even asked many people to start using wordpress and they have
some even switched from blogger and livejournal . kudos kudos
January 9th, 2007 at 4:44 am
Looks great! Keep up the outstanding work folks
It is appreciated
January 11th, 2007 at 3:07 pm
As a new comer I’m looking toward a good relationship.
January 11th, 2007 at 3:11 pm
I’m eager to learn more about the blog
January 11th, 2007 at 3:13 pm
I like what I see in the above comments
January 13th, 2007 at 2:11 am
To Matt and the theam, a heartfelt thank you for all you do!
January 14th, 2007 at 11:04 am
good job
January 15th, 2007 at 9:27 am
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January 18th, 2007 at 2:30 pm
Seriously, you guys at WordPress rocks. Love the typography, the clean sparky themes, and much more reliable than those at Blogger. Good job.
January 21st, 2007 at 3:34 pm
Yeah, what they said. I joined only 6 months ago and can’t believe all the changes you’ve been making in such a short time. Keep up the good work, and keep the themes coming too.
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