April Wrap-Up
In April we introduced Instant Findability, TED video embeds, a springtime theme, a cool new domain, and reply-by-email for comments, now open to all. A pretty busy month, with more awesome features on the way, plus WordCamp San Francisco, on May 30.
If you’re in town or want a reason to be, be sure to register soon. We’ve got a great speaker line-up, free WordPress schwag to give away, and, of course, a BBQ lunch.
Here are the stats for April:
- 370,053 blogs were created.
- 401,320 new users joined.
- 5,206,156 file uploads.
- 3,050 gigabytes of new files.
- 775 terabytes of content transferred from our datacenters.
- 8,691,962 comments.
- 6,991,335 logins.
- 1,162,296,607 pageviews on WordPress.com, and another 1,130,311,791 on self-hosted blogs (2,292,608,398 total across all WordPress blogs we track).
- 1,904,262 active blogs and 19,665,407 active posts where “active” means they got a human visitor.
- 1,569,961,240 words.
Other cool stuff:
After tallying the community vote, the judges panel (Derek Powazek, Matt Thomas, and myself) selected two winning designs for the I ❤ Blogging design contest. You can now buy “Dandy(lion) Blogging” by el_square and “I Love Blogging (and Pixel Art)” by Robert Podgórski in the Infectious store as vinyl stickers for your laptop, iPod or iPhone. Congrats to the winners and all who submitted their work.
Though we released comment reply via email late in the month (April 23), you’re already making great use of it. 1,029 replies to comments via email just in the final week.
Video uploads using the WordPress player are on the rise, too: 5,290 in April. If you haven’t already checked it out, head to WordPress.tv to see what your videos could look like in the WordPress player (and to learn a bit, too). If you like what you see, you can purchase the Space Upgrade to get uploading.
We launched BuddyPress 1.0, a collection of plugins that transform a vanilla WordPress MU install into a social network.
WIRED.com migrated its blogs to WordPress, and Intruders.tv relaunched their channels using WordPress MU.
WordCamp Central was redesigned, and now has an awesome map that displays WordCamps around the world.
There were six WordCamps in April: WordCamp China, WordCamp Hong Kong, WordCamp NOLA, WordCamp Tokyo, WordCamp Nigeria, and WordCamp Reno-Tahoe.
Coming up in May: WordCamp Toronto, WordCamp Richmond, WordCamp Mid-Atlantic, WordCamp Columbus, WordCamp Ed CUNY, WordCamp Milan, and WordCamp San Francisco.
Hehe It’s nice feeling apart of something that big!
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So many awesome features are popping up on WP.. exciting!
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Wow April was a busy month for you guys.
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Thank you so much for the work that you do.
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A few thousand of those words are mine!
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Sounds like things are going quite well. I myself just signed up with WordPress and finding it to be a better blog site than blogger…
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WP rocks! 😀
I will love to work with WP. Do let me know when/if you need someone in India (New Delhi) who believes that ” a drop of ink can make a million think” and blogs ‘the whole world’! 😛
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Hell ya, didn’t know WordPress is that big, this really makes me think that the exponential times theory is damn true not just a philosophical idea.
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🙂 yeah~ congratz..
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*Agrees with Andrew*
I love all the updates you get here!
– Lora
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Another Great Month For WordPress … Figures Are Simply Awesome Matt … And yeah i really like idea of replying comments Via e-mail … its make our job bit easier
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… the sky is the limit …
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“775 terabytes of content transferred from our datacenters.” – wow.
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Cripes. If you ever held a WordCamp New Mexico, I’d attend. And I don’t go anywhere.
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Great job for April. Some of the best updates yet. The TED video embeds were long overdue ^^
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So many numbers! =D
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Wow, I suppose a little bigger than last year!
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Good job to WordPress… 😆
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Well, nobody could accuse WordPress of staying still. I’m happy to be a part of it.
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nice numbers!
you have April Wrap-Up for latinoamerica?
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Awesome!
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WordPress you rocks and deserve more than that 🙂
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yeah this is my third month and all three of the blogs I started are still going strong thanks for your help wordpress team (I started one in april)
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Well done, WordPeople. Thanks for reply-by-email comments especially. You make blogging easy.
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I started in April myself. I couldn’t be happier with my experience. It’s great to see that you are constantly improving the interface for your users.
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A lot has been done. You all work so hard and it is greatly appreciated. Thank you.
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775 terabytes, that’s insane!! 😛
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Woohoo, I’m one of the new users that joined this month… loving it already! Thanks for all the great features!
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hermmm….ola.!!!
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good………………keep it up..
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And it’s still growing – amazing how WordPress evolved over the last years! Congratulation 😉
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Thanks for all the awesome stuff done in april.
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I start to fall in love with this WP, cool stuff Matt 🙂
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legal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Well, thanks for the update, no matter how overwhelming it continues to be. A particular statistic which I have been looking for and whose inclusion I would most definitely appreciate, either in this post as an update or the next one just as an additional stat in your post, is that how many users and viewers who visited blogs hosted on WordPress had a screen setting of at least 1024 by 800 pixels. I, for one, would most definitely appreciate that extra bit of information.
For the time being, just as I have said in the beginning, no matter how overwhelming the stats may be, thanks for the information any way.
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Awesome job guys, you deserve it!
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Happy to hear that!
Hope it stays like that!!
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I was very much into ireports. I really am impressed with this. Thank you!
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Whoa, that’s a lot! Thank you guys for being such an amazing team and making WordPress the best place ever to blog! =)
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i love the short domain and TED!
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wow indeed those are a lot of numbers >:)
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Yet another great month – Thank you guys for all your work 😀
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I am blogging for the benefit of IELTS, TOEFL and other English Learning aspirants. I have posted and continue to post sample essays, letters, and other graphic data description specimen for the study and exam prepration by the aspiring visitors of my blog. I have a very goode experience of blogging with WORDPRESS and I am delighted.
Good Luck
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All of it is a useful stuff. thanks a lot!
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Yay for WordPress! Great April and SIX years in May! I am sooo looking forward to WordCamp SF! Even if you’re not super techie (like me) it’s a lot of fun and you’ll learn a lot!
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Awesome, always something new for us!!
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Thank you!! Thats great!!
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Add suport for html5 video tag, please!!!
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Hey.. feels nice to be part of wordpress. You guys come up with amazing stuffs time and again. Thank you.
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foot in mouth.
blogging is a great invention.
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Awesome Stats!!!!!
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Great April. Hope wordpress will gain even more success in May as well!
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Wow, awesome! I never new that that much people sign up on WP everyday !
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hi ppl have a good day
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Thanks for most sympathy from all of us, to all of you . Thank you again .
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I moved my portfolio from Yahoo Sitebuilder to WordPress.com earlier this month.
Your service impressed me so much that I moved an existing blog here from Blogger!
Thank you for the constant innovation and exciting developments. You make it all look easy 🙂
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Brilliant! Honestly Matt, your team is doing a brilliant job, and the stats are simply amazing – I’m glad to be on WordPress. Keep up the good work.
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I knew I was on the best blog site. Now if I can just get my 50+ mind wrapped around some of those newfangled gadjets (sp)! Grrratzie!
Spidr
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Thank you for choosing my design, Matt. I’m very honored and extremely happy that you did. This is Loc aka el_square from Infectious.
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Good job! you guys!
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The stats are good but you’re looking great! “,
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Wow!!! Great jobs man!!
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Keep up the good work & I’m happy to play a small part.
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Glad to contribute to the status increase! Yay for everyone with something to say! Thanks for making this such a fun place to be~
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Good Job!
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This is mom from holeinthefence.net. You are the best!!! WordPress it so user friendly even this ole dog can use it and that is saying a lot. Thank you, thank you, thank you and Congratulations on your well deserved success. Very proud to be part of this. More power to you!
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cool!!!!
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Great !!!
Do the best…
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Excellent……
Nice to hear about it
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Wow!! what is the name of wordpress fans by the way?
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