October Wrap-Up
November 10, 2008
In October, we celebrated our first billion-impression month, and continued plugging away on WordPress 2.7 — along with a couple of other fun projects, to be announced.
Here are last month’s stats:
- 323,786 blogs were created.
- 343,832 new users joined.
- 4,085,148 file uploads.
- 1995.86 gigabytes of new files.
- 531 terabytes of content transferred from our datacenters.
- 8,862,195 comments.
- 6,680,516 logins.
- 1,088,583,200 pageviews on WordPress.com, and another 738,282,634 on self-hosted blogs (1,826,865,834 total across all WordPress blogs we track).
- 1,418,933 active blogs and 16,599,550 active posts where “active” means they got a human visitor.
- 1,179,018,712 words.
Plus:
You went poll-crazy now that PollDaddy is integrated with the dashboard: 53,290 PollDaddy polls added this month — a 1250% increase from September.
We released the WordPress App for LinkedIn.
Two renowned authors joined WordPress: Sci-Fi novelist John Scalzi on WordPress.com VIP, and Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago on WordPress.com.
October WordCamps: New York, Toronto, Bangkok, Hawaii.
Upcoming WordCamps in November: Charlotte (North Carolina), Tel Aviv, WordCamp Ed (Washington, D.C.), Australia.
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am so glad I switched to WordPress….WORDPRESS RULES!!!!
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300k / month new blogs! Looks like have to work harder to attract visitors 😉
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WordPress really rocks! I have been enjoying using WordPress ever since I started in August this year!
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I have just started using WordPress. I had spent a long time contemplating between BlogSpot and WordPress. I went with the expert opinion, and have no regrets about it. Now I know why! Good work WordPress Team! Keep adding stuff. And you get us!
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Very good stats
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GO WORDPRESS!!
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Congrats on the increase in traffic, and setting a new Milestone.
Here’s to many more!!! 😀
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i enjoyed wordpress
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Huge number indeed… I hope Wordcamps could come to Brazil :D~
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very nicy!!!!!!!!!! 🙂
wordpress is best blogservice 🙂
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Wow!
Those numbers are unbelievable! I’m a newbie & excited to blog 🙂
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WordPress has grown in the past year imensly. I will be watching for the stats next year
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Everybody in this world know all about wordpress…awesome!!!!
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WordPress is really growing fast!
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You guys are doing great!
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Omg you must work really hard!!!!
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go go WordPress
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❤ WordPress
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WordPress is a real blog boom. I’ve been using it smoothly since last month. It’s October wrap up record is great as well. Carry on WordPress.
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Wow those are crazy numbers. Continue the great work! I know I am enjoying it.
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Matt, WordPress is great and has amazing possibilities – you have a great team – thanks for making it available!
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Thanks!! I can get alot of experiences here!
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YEA woohoo/!
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I only started blogging in latter part of November and absolutely loving WordPress, so easy to use and looking forward to 2.7 🙂
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WordPress’s great 😀
just have one question…
if i install wordpress, will my postings be saved on wordpress.com or on my FTP-Server?
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FTP is not a feature of WordPress.com
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cool! i’m a new user… i expect to enjoy my stay! 🙂
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Really great news. Could you please develop plugins which supports ads like adsense, yahoo ads? This feature will be very helpful to us.
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Oh my goodness. WordPress is getting huge! I like it though. I wonder, does it get deferred…. or does it explode!
lol
NS
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I started the same time I’ve created like 5 blogs!
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Sir: I love word Press. I love WordPress. I love WordPress. However before this gets swamped with yahoo type of comments, let me make my comments.It is time for leave all the other blogging sites in the dust.
1) I tried Bluehost and after ten days of delusionment and incompetence canceled it.
2) We would like to see IP tracking in the comments section (with a built in IP tracking software–who why where when).
3) Better statistics to monitor what is going on…more more more.
4) An improved built in search engine
5) fixing the IE interface issues with WordPress
6) Fixing the error on the graph in statistics
7) Create ready to go widgets
8) Better image management
9) Spell check in the comments section
10) a way to create a robust Table of Contents or complete listing of all posts an pages published
11) A way to automatically process comments and responses on the same page
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I’m not sure how your problems with Bluehost relate to WordPress. Which problems in statistics and with IE are you referring to? Please write to us in Support with more details. Some widgets are already available for you under Design > Widgets in your dashboard. I think you’ll find that points #8 and 11 are solved in 2.7. We’ll take your others into account.
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wow, really good numbers 🙂
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Hey cool and im one of the new 323,786 blogs and i did a polldaddy right at the first day as far as i remember. Keep it up guys, looking forward to the new dash.
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Yes……wordpress….indeed a creative era to the bloggers. I am new, I will do good for the society with the help of wordpress…for world peace.
……….Kanakalyan
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I dindn’t think so many nubmers is on WP. Wow!
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I’m started ago about 1 year with another username
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BIG BIG wordpress.com
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I just starting blogging here on WordPress.com this month (November). I can’t wait to see the November results! 🙂
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wordpress is really nice………….. hats off WORDPRESS
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Great Job wordpress You have done a very nice job. Congrats
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Keep it Up!!!
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WordPress is great it has given me the chance for so many others to share my thoughts. May you continue for ever. I am proud to be one of your growing number of bloggers. The Foureyed Poet.
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Numbers are huge. I am happy to be part of them.
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WordPress is great, I see most of my tags on first or second pages of Google, MSN and Yahoo.
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New user to wordpress, but not my first blog…looking forward to learning more about wordpress
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This is such a nice place to exress my thoughts and give comments to other’s posts! 🙂
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Im new to wordpress but so far im liking it..
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that’s so great, keep be wordpress.
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for wordpress good luck
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How do you afford all that?
Plz. Reply
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See Automattic.com 🙂
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Premium features – http://wordpress.com/products/ .
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