February Wrap-Up
February was a good month for us, production-wise. We brought you a new theme, a new and improved LiveJournal import tool, and threaded comments. Elsewhere, Automattic launched BuddyPress, a set of WordPress MU plugins that transforms a WordPress MU install into a social network platform. We also launched the I ❤ Blogging design contest, in partnership with Infectious (which ends on March 30).
Here are the stats from February:
- 351,904 blogs were created.
- 385,033 new users joined.
- 4,577,845 file uploads.
- 2,926 gigabytes of new files.
- 776 terabytes of content transferred from our datacenters.
- 7,964,018 comments.
- 6,436,398 logins.
- 1,022,236,821 pageviews on WordPress.com, and another 948,586,171 on self-hosted blogs (1,970,822,992 total across all WordPress blogs we track).
- 1,039,553 active blogs and 19,015,974 active posts where “active” means they got a human visitor.
- 1,348,400,618 words.
More stuff:
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There was a whopping seven WordCamps in February: WordCamp Higher Ed North East, WordCamp Paris, WordCamp Germany, WordCamp Miami, WordCamp India, WordCamp Education Vancouver, WordCamp Denver. (The next WordCamp is WordCamp Hong Kong, on April 5.)
Indie video game development studio, Platinum Games, joined WordPress.com VIP.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution switched to WordPress MU.
Singularity University went live, powered by WordPress.
- March 4, 2009
- Automattic, Wrapup
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wow! great job wordpress team!
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Numbers never seem to go down eh? =D
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I like the new theme..!..:)
Thanks a lot..
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aw, just in time with the Wrap-up
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waow… congrats to you… WP
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great.
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great job team wordpress and all the members!
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Another great month for WordPress! I’m really enjoying threaded comments. Makes conversation much easier!
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Excellent job!
Any hints on what’s coming for March?? 😉
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Great as always…
Thumbs Up…!
Asad
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yay wordpress!
Honestly, its THE best bloghost I could find so far.
Rock On!
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2Thumbs Up 4WP
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O.o
comment subscription, good feature.
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So it was a good month in overall
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good stuff!
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Your photo is funny …
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It’s been my best month with over 15 000 views. 🙂
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good leraning and teqmwork.thanks
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wooww!!
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awesome stats
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Nice stats 😉
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These figures are great – and your job is even greater. Thank you very much 😀
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i’m still lost…but i’ll catch up…fast…or i die trying…to breathe the cyberair…lol
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Stream of camps conducted. Host of techniques introduced.Few institutions joined you. On the whole .the shortest month of the year was an eventful month for WordPress.
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Indeed a great job! Glad to be a part of the adventure!
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hmm .. great .. im new here lets see …
it looks better than blogger .. 🙂
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good
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Special thanks for threaded comments 🙂
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Definitely enjoying my WordPress experience. The guys in the band and myself appreciate all your efforts.
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the best in february is threded comment feature and my b’day 🙂
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I hear you enjoyed your trip to the Taj Mahal…
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this is an impressive number: 1,970,822,992
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Excelent Job as always, WP.
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WP is the best! Luv ya WordPress!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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awesome, keep on!!!
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Given the connections between WPMU and WordPress.com, should we expect some BuddyPress goodness on WordPress.com? The timing would be quite good.
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You are amazing me (and everyone) whenever we come to see the monthly wrap-up. Best Wishes!
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order wordpress mug i say!
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Nice!
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I’m always intrigued by the disparity between new users and new blogs. I mean, the WP system isn’t particularly intimidating, yet people sign up and apparently just go away again. I’d love to know why.
Maybe it’s the prospect of having to come up with new stuff on a regular basis, but if you pick a subject that interests you, and just as importantly, other people, it’s not as intimidating as you might think. Or even at all – you might find you have a knack for blogging. So if you’re reading this and haven’t created a blog yet, go for it – it really repays the investment in time and effort. And the more you write, the easier it gets…
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A number of people create WordPress.com accounts just to use the API key so they can see stats on their WordPress.org self-hosted blogs.
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This is amazing all the things you do!
Thank you so much!
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Very nice WordPress. Just read this post right now.
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impressive figures!
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Wishing I was selling servers to wordpress…
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WordPress is such an awesome site!
I wonder what cool stuff will happen this month? 🙂
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keep it up, you’re doing an amazing job!
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Well done wordpress! 🙂
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Very good, very good
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6,436,398 logins.
omg, good statistic 😉 Good luck to the next years… 😉
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WordPress’ success is a tribute to your innovation, care, and hard work. Keep it up! The best is yet to come.
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I have been so glad that the new theme “Vigilance” came along. I really like being able to choose the background colors because it makes the blog seem more pleasing. I don’t know CSS and therefore cannot use that option; but, that’s okay. Since I’m quite new to blogging, I’m more than satisfied and happy for this opportunity. Thank you very much for being such a wonderful team. All your efforts are greatly appreciated.
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Woooo Hoooooo! thanks guys and gals, WP is awesome and getting awesomer. Thank you
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greeaat job! WordPress rocks…
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Since I came on board, I haven’t had a moment to spare. No boredom here. Thanks for the hard work and making me work harder. I think it’s good for me. Besides I’m really enjoying it.
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Greaaat. Congratz.
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Kudos for another great month!
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go team!
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Whoa! Yeah, February was a nice month.
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Thanks for all the great effort!
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Keep it up guys, it’s the best blogging service out there. Cheers.
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thanks guys.kudos.
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Will BuddyPress be integrated into wordpress.com?
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We will probably integrate BuddyPress into WordPress.com eventually, but that is a project for the future.
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keep up the good job done..
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i do not think that february is a goog month but march is
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Keep up the good work!!
Its great being with WP…..
Last year I’d inquired about the Google adsense making its way in wordpress, but my answer was deferred – now when is it coming?
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We don’t currently have a release date planned for an ads upgrade.
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Asyikk!, good job wordpress team!
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its cool…
keep up the gud work….
rock on,
Wordpress
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Great job!
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thats fantastic…
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Give us more themes guys, existing ones not good enough, they’ve been there for a long time now.
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This just shows that this is the best blogging service available on the web. I check tons of different websites and they all use different versions of wordpress. Keep up the good work guys
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you guys doing good job..
Keep it up..
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Ayeeee.. Way to go wordpress team! Impressive numbers! Good luck.. 🙂
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Congratulations! The numbers are sky-bound. Keep it up.
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Hopefully there’ll be new theme with more stuff to customize
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Keep it up! I’m thrilled to reap the benefits!
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im a new user here and I feel comfortable knowing that I am part of a blog where the team members strive to constantly improve month after month. Look forward to being here.
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YAY for wordpress!!! This is the best (and my favorite) blogging place on the internet- thanks a bunch!
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Awesome….. My only question is how do you make any money doing this for free Matt?? I really enjoyed your talk at WordCamp Denver. 🙂
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WP Rulz! and thx for the new theme.
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I have to agree. Blogging is a piece of cake here. Thanks for all the effort and constant updates
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Keep it up WordPress! Loving this! 😀 *thumbs up*
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Great month for WordPress!
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[doing a great job here,
love to see these stats
every month]
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going from strength to strength.
I love this stat:
“776 terabytes of content transferred from our datacenters.”
nice!
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thanks WP team for threaded comments. Now I don’t need to move the cursor to know whose gives the newest comment(s) on my posting. Keep the good work. GBU all.
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That’s why i joined WordPress. Keep on going guys.
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WordPress is definitely the blogging platform of choice. 100%.
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hehehe…. Good Job!!! Keep It Up!!!
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Great Effort By WordPress! Congratulations for Great Achievement.
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I know that you always give us the best
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Congratulations to you guys!!! you ROCK!!!
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Very impressive!
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The best of the best! Congratulations to you guys
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I love the new theme — I’ve been using it for several weeks now, with no complaints! It looks great!
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I’m new to WordPress and this is very encouraging to hear!
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Nice, we’re gonna beat that !
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You guys Rock , i really like threaded comments And new template Vigilance Hope To see More interesting Features in march too
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