August Wrap-Up
This month I had the pleasure of meeting many of you at WordCamp 2008 in San Francisco, WordCamp South Africa, and now WordCamp Philippines. It’s been a blast, and there are many more to come. Check out the schedule to see if there’s a WordCamp near you.
Here are the stats for August:
- 286,860 blogs were created.
- 298,655 new users joined.
- 3,442,638 file uploads.
- About 1,580 gigabytes of new files.
- 439 terabytes of content transferred from our datacenters.
- 6,750,960 comments.
- 5,354,732 logins.
- 830,555,442 pageviews on WordPress.com, and another 625,626,770 on self-hosted blogs (1,456,182,212 total across all WordPress blogs we track).
- 1,196,661 active blogs and 14,056,683 active posts where “active” means they got a human visitor.
Some other facts and stats:
Number10.gov.uk, the official site of the UK Prime Minister’s Office, has relaunched their site using WordPress.
There were 450 attendees at WordCamp 2008 in San Francisco.
There were 105 attendees at WordCamp South Africa.
WordPress Charity Scavenger Hunt participants raised $565.77 for 826 Valencia. This was matched by a donation from Automattic and my personal donation, totaling $1,697.31 to go toward writing programs for students.
One Automattician got married and another got engaged (congratulations, both!).
- September 5, 2008
- Wrapup
Ohhh, I get it! PhotoMatt has figured out how to hang out in places like NYC at company expense. Do these “camps” all over the world…
It really is cool that you are doin’ them all over the place now!
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awesome. congratulations….
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Rock on, gang.
Oh, and I hope Om won something at WordCamp…
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I’ve been on WordPress for about 13 months now, and it’s been nothing but great. Thanks for all of the additions, fixes and design plusses you’ve added this past year.
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Subhanallah! You are doing good work in bringing together the global family.
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Number10.gov.uk states it’s “BETA”. One presumes this refers to the cabinet rather than the software.
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Thanx!
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Great stats. Nice to see the rest of the world is coming to WP!
🙂
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WordCamp SF was awesome–met some great people and won a beautiful moleskin notepad because of a WordPress tattoo on my leg which Stewtopia put on flicker–the photo went on my blog too of course as well as some notes about WordCamp and you!
Next time i hope you go to the party–we had a blast!
Thanks so much Matt! WordPress is changing my life!
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I have nothing but praise for the guys-n-gals behind WordPress, without which our site would not be running as smoothly as it does, nor have the traffic it does.
The various FireFox Add-Ons that are available for WordPress are growing, as well as iPod/phone apps that work with WordPress, all of which make working on your WP site much easier.
With the use of a current theme, we have managed to get into the top 20 Video Game site listings on Blogged.com, and were asked to self nominate for the Bloggers Choice Awards for 2008 . . . all due to the fact we’re using WP and the theme we like. Which we can also alter when we go to private servers. Which is just another beauty of WP community.
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thats a lot!
COOL WORK!
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There is none of my close, but now I read in these post hos
and I can make a IISL
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Woah, that’s alot!
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amazing…. UK Prime Minister using wordpress… good luck…
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WP rocks! I love WP functions!
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cool! Gordon Brown! using wordpress! lol!
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Very cool! Congratulations, and thank you for providing a fabulous service
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A very fine statistics.
No10.gov.U.K has relaunched the site by using Word press-great news.
Best wishes to the newly wed and congratulations to the newly engaged.
Cheers.
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i love wp..im new on wp…
so congratulations 😀
so bad I dont see my country on your schedule
thanks XD
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Hmm. You had one in Birmingham in the UK this year but how about one in London soon? (UK I mean)
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Firstly, thank you for providing the best blogging platform available!
Secondly, here’s some ‘WordPress love’ http://www.thetechnewsblog.com/2008/08/21/wordpresscom-highly-recommended/
Finally, any chance of a Wordcamp in The UK?
Jim Connolly
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I hope you will have WordCamp Taiwan soon.
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I left blogspot and started serious blogging in wordpress last month. It has been awesome. Thanks for the features, fixes, stats and what not. Keep Rollin’
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Like I said Last Month… WordPress ROCK!!!! 😀
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Thanks for this great tool.
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Good luck for tomorrow’s event in Manila.
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Thank you so much for wordpress – it’s beautifully designed and set out, and I’m really enjoying it.
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i just hooked up with wordpress, and right now, im mounting hits like crazy. This stats and tag surfing are what made me relocate here. Really superb service. Blogging was never this fun. Thank you guys. 🙂
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Congratulations to Automatticians!
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now how about here? in dubai? 😦
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The service is fantastic! Thx Matt!!!! Congrts to the wordpress team!
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Great.
Cheers Matt
🙂
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Amazing stats!
I love wordpress!!!!!!!
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Great Static, good job
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Thanks for the great themes!
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Awesome!!!
Excellent work,Matt 😉
Thanx
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Cheers!
How about a ‘Virtual Wordcamp’? On the WWW …. which all netizens and WPians can attend
BTW, isn’t Number10.gov.uk the same site which was at the forefront of a ‘blog theme plagiarism war’ with a freelance theme designer sometime ago??
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Hi Matt,
just started my 2nd blog here…loving it!!! Still have soo much to learn, never too late:) anyhow , my thanks for a great place to blog!
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how about a wordcamp toronto!
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so bad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Like I said Last Month… WordPress ROCK!!!! 😀
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WordPress is great. I just started blogging this week and I found this to be the easiest and best site to integrate new and experienced bloggers. It’s such a breeze to use with all the widgets and templates.
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Congratulations,
WordPress is a revolutionary service in the blogsphere’s community. It’s very easy for newers and it’s very powerful for experts everywhere in world. Very nice.
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that is cool
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well done
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@chittaranjan “Virtual Wordcamp”. Sounds good. ^_^ I’m from Indonesia and it’s so far from San Fransisco.
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WordPress is great.Congrats,Matt!
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Excellent Count 🙂
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i love wordpress…. it’s the best blog platform now…
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waw…nice.
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yeah, i joined wordpress in august too 😀
and i’m proud of my wordpress blog 🙂
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wow
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Cool
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Thank´s for your support.
I think that you all are great.
Anthony is superb.
Thank´s
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This is great news. I love wordpress and this love is getting deeper by the day !
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Cool Cheers Guys 🙂
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very nice efforts guyz
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I like being a part of wordpress and I appreciate all the assistance, you guys gave me, when I first started.
Thank you,
Carolyn
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loving wp more and more 😉 great job, guys!
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wordpress all the way!!
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WP you give good blog… the more I learn about you WP, the more I love you…. while we’re only coming up on our 1st anniversary together, I have this feeling this love’s gonna last!!!
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Going from strength to strength!
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So Matt…..
When are you going to visit Namiba, the land with the oldest desert and some of the most recent bloggers? It was close enough to South Africa… WordPress is just too good to be for free, but Im not going to complain 🙂 Keep up the good work!
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keep good job, thank u so much-
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You guys have changed my life. Keep up the good work!
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cool, congratulations!
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That`s just great 🙂
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Congrats Dude….keep up the good work!!!
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It would be nice to know how many “Google bots” dedicated for wordpress, i am sure they eats up a lot of bandwidth.
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great stats. great service as well.. thanks..
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matt! thanks for coming to wordcamp here in the philippines! you’re so cool and so down to earth! keep up the good work!
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WHAAAAT?! you were in cape town
oh bugger!
i missed you – i guess it was for wp geeks only?!!
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Well, Matt and the gank surely have more and more impressive numbers every month. Awesome.. Congrats! 🙂
@catatandigital (& other Indonesians).. how ’bout setting-up WordCamp Indonesia then? Feb/March, in Jakarta/Bandung/Surabaya perhaps..? 😉
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Hi, Matt,
I just started. God, help me to keep up good work !!!
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Thanks for the freebies.. Blogging with WordPress is more easy than the other
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Wonderfull stats…
I know, you’re part of me now
Wordpress, I love you
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Great stats!
I started blogging with WordPress and I love it!
Thanks guys
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hallo every body…
I Joined wordpress.com in Juli 2008
Nice to meet you friends.
martracho
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it’s very good i liked it
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wow…great !!
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I love this program, so many animals have been reunited in Darwin due to WordPress, I could never have worked out my own web site… so many thanks from Sideon and lots of grateful fur bodies 🙂
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Thats great !!! I hope there will be more Creative posts in September!
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Awesome, Matt!
Thanks and congratulations!
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yeah I’m also glad to know that. it’s great!
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wordpress = pure awesomeness
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Whoohoo for WordPress! Congrats!
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Hello Matt,
The stats ARE awesome. Congrats! Could we have a better range of latest tech. themes?
Do you have free website themes also? If “10 Downing” could relaunch their website using WordPress, guys, you have made it, mark my words!!! Come September, hope you grow 12% this month alone… 🙂
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😉
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Awesome stats yeah. Go WordPress!
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I write blog in wp…everyday
thank’s I love it
GBU
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that’s nice…:)
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i scream, you scream, we all scream, for wordpress !
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Wow, incredible numbers, from these 6,750,960 comments i have now created my first one 😉
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wooow super 🙂
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Kool.
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Jesus Christ! 1.5 BILLION pageviews. Wow. Sounds great. I like high figures.
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I am beginning to love WP, even here in sunny South Africa. mmmm now if only I could learn to write………..
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You did it again!…Good job!!!
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wordpress has helped turn my career around! Superb service!!
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excelent greetings for this nice organization wordpress……. we need a best world and for can make it with thinking in open sources is amazing………….
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