August Wrap-Up
I’m back in San Francisco after a trip to London for the Happiness Engineer meetup. It’s serious business, but the group has managed to have a little fun along the way.
Our developers have been hard at work, too. In August, we launched the SoundCloud shortcode and WP.me, a URL shortener for WordPress blogs. And at your request, we introduced two new themes: iNove and Sandbox 1.6.1.
Here are last month’s stats:
426,047 blogs were created.
4,560,168 posts were published.
455,423 new users joined.
6,658,426 file uploads.
3,990 gigabytes of new files.
787 terabytes of content transferred from our datacenters.
8,379,530 comments.
7,498,064 logins.
2,153,498 active blogs and 22,855,350 active posts, where “active” means they had a human visitor.
1,267,201,336 pageviews on WordPress.com, and another 1,296,959,079 on self-hosted blogs (2,564,160,415 total across all WordPress blogs we track).
1,567,468,503 words.
Other cool stuff:
You published 11,425 posts to your blogs using the Beta WordPress for BlackBerry app.
Brazil’s Culture Ministry chose BuddyPress as their platform for public debate. The vehicle security service OnStar is using WordPress MU, bbPress and Gravatars on their new community site.
WordCamps in August: WordCamp New Zealand, WordCamp Huntsville, WordCamp Fraser Valley, and WordCamp Beijing.
Upcoming WordCamps in September: WordCamp Los Angeles, WordCamp Romania, WordCamp Philippines, WordCamp Portland, WordCamp Seattle, and WordCamp Birmingham.
- September 4, 2009
- Wrapup
Wow! Self-hosted blogs are more popular than WordPress itself! 😮 It’s probably because of the Fail Blog. 🙄
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What a great world that represent the statistics for wordpress.
In only one month 426,047 blogs were created.
Mamma mia.
How many blogs there are?
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There are currently around 9,000,000 blogs in total on WordPress.com.
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Looks like the kind of folks I’ve hung out with my entire life.
Rock on!
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graets numbers!!!!
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Great work this month!
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Awesome stuff, keep up the great work! WordPress to grow more…
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I can barely wait for newer and better themes, with custom headers. *wink wink* *nudge nudge*
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Nice pic! London Eye!
People are so relaxed in this pic as if it is their home and not the middle of the earth and sky! 😀
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Please have a WordCamp in Chicago! I would love to participate in it. ^_^
Thank you for your continuing great service. You are the best blogging software I’ve ever used. Keep up the good work!
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There was a WordCamp in Chicago this summer 🙂
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congrats for all the success, guys!
0,4 MM new blogs (including my own) in a month is amazing.
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Mesmerizing! o.O
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Amazing stats
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That looks like such a cool crew to work with! It’s good to see their smiling faces.
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I love my iNove theme. Thank you.
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Hi there,
I love blogging and I really dig WordPress. You guys rock.
Any chance of there ever being a WordCamp South Africa. What do you guys do on WordCamps anyway?
Where’s the suggestion box?
Cheers,
Mark
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There was a WordCamp in South Africa in 2008. You are welcome to contact us through WordCamp.org. 🙂
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Feels nice to know that I’m part of those statistics.
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Beautiful numbers! o.O
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Coolio! I never been to London!
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You are all wonderful….I hope you had fun…because you do serious work. You allow people like me to be heard! F R E E D O M is a gift not to be wasted….
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Cool, thanks wordpress team!
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London!
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Nice Stats With Nice Pic
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what’s really amazing is how few of those blogs viewed are added to by the views of my blog! Maybe i should write more about p*rn, idols, stars and their babies or Michael jackson 😉
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WordPress happiness in London.
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It’s great to see some of the faces behind the monitor – on my home turf – hope your beers tasted better than they look….rather flat.
I really appreciate all the great work you guys do to make WordPress such an enjoyable experience. Cheers!
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WordPress makes blogging real easy. It’s quite a thing you guys have achieved. Thank you.
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That’s not London – it’s too sunny! 😉 Glad you all had a great time.
And the numbers continue to amaze. Just out of curiosity, has the “official” stats page (/stats/) been abandoned permanently? Always found that fascinating.
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More simple themes, please!
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Amazing WP..
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Serious and relax. Nice face, beautiful scene. Great stats!
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Amazing!
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are you cheering w/ tea-&-lemmon? Anyway: Hoorrai WP!
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funtastic number!!!
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this number is really impressive!
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wp rocks
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wonderfull idea…
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As a retiree, I no longer have an occupation. Instead now, I have a preoccupation! Thanks.
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please get us cool themes really often…we are bored of these same themes..as the developers took a break..we need a change too..please…
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Great job! Thanks.
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Awesome stats!
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Why do I feel so old looking at that photo!!!???!!!
Keep up the good work 🙂
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Good stuff here. 🙂
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What a nice group! Handsome boys, beautiful girls, all smashing.
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nice to see faces and numbers too. more power to you guys!
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WP rocks keep up the good work!
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Thanks WordPress you really are the best blogging resource!
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GO WordPress!!!!
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Cools faces! Amazing stats!! You people rock and I envy u.
You provided me an excellent opportunity to collect my interests and summarize them.
Keep nice work up. 3 column themes are hard to find. More three column, wide width
and custom header themes to would be more helpful.
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We contributed 4 posts to that huge-a-normous number. Do we make you proud?
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Awesome team… works hard and parties harder!!!!
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A very nice picture of some very nice people. The gal in white in the middle looks like my beautiful daughter-in-law, who works for a computer software company. Have a great time!
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WordPress is oding well as ever
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Nice view!!)
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Well done!
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cool building
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any plans of a wordcamp in Indonesia?
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There was one earlier this year 🙂
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Please have a followers gadget. That would be cool. Nice stats though!
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ha! i’ve been waiting all month long to see these wonderful numbers! 😉 glad that you guys had fun in London!
btw, where is the bear? 😕
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The bear was at a top-secret meetup elsewhere.
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Keep up the good work. I’ll stay tuned in!
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Thanks, thanks thanks!!! You guys offer a very good service 🙂
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Thats great…. thanks to all wordpress team members
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Great to hear that – and hope you had a lot of fun during your “sessions”. Keep on rocking the streets, WP Team 🙂
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wow…! great job! Hebat euy…!
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Great for wordpress
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I love WordPress, have been using it for years. Keep the good times coming!
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I love wordpress and all you team members for making it so great!
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All the best for this team. Hooray!
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wow word press very good
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wow wordpress very good
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I’m brazilian and I didn’t even know about the Culture Minister’s choice. What a smart man! 😉
Wordpress rocking… as usual.
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What awesome stats – brilliant job, everyone! Is there any WordCamp being planned for Johannesburg, South Africa?
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There was a WordCamp in South Africa in 2008, but none currently scheduled in 2009. Feel free to contact us through WordCamp.org.
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Keep up the good work WordPress! My one complaint (if it weren’t for this problem, WordPress would be next-to-perfect…):
Why don’t you allow Javascript on WordPress.com blogs? Blogger does! What ‘security issues’ do they have? Not many, from what I can see. Isn’t there anyway to keep WordPress.com blogs safe without disabling javascript and flash? (Which is just about one of the most important things you can have with a blog…no wonder so many people are hosting their own WordPress.org blogs!)
Please hear us out, WordPress: We want Javascript back and we want it now! Do something about this, so WordPress.com can remain the ultimate best choice for bloggers!
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Go Word Press
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Glady everyone is back safe and sound! I love being a part of the family!
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Most Excellent!
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How about a WordCamp Burning Man next year? You up for it Matt? You should do it for the t-shirts alone!
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9,000,000 blogs total on WordPress and Club Penguin always seems to be taking over the WordPress Blogs of the Day.
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Cool and good job, thanks wordpress team!
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That sure is great 🙂 And so nice looking people at the picture 😀
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I love me some WordPress.
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This is great to see 😀
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Yeah im included in that 🙂
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is this London Eye?
God!!! How I want to get there!!
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Cool, glad we’re here! Thanks WordPress.
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You are all wonderful I love some WordPress I alway you team members for making it so great
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Fantastic! WordPress is great, awesome; which is why it is so popular!
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What a happy bunch! You are all precious, Blessings, tons of them! We appreciate your commitment and hard work for WP.
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thats terrific! GO WP!! 😀
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Thanks for fixing the spell check. That was the best thing you guys did all year.
Now for the next big fix—put in a great serach engine (the current one is not world class)..so that others and us can find the articles on our site. This would increase traffic to the site and help worldpress numbers too.
Thanks
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increase the blog space for us a nd give dedicated GALLERY options to upload some good stuff in our blog….
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Great numbers, big thanks to the WP dev team. I love writing into my wordpress BLOG.
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As a real newbie (as of today my first blog) – I am very impressed. Way to go WP
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great.. good job.. thank you very much wordpress!
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Amazing!!!
I’m one of those who create a new account in august (i had 2 almost dead blog hosted in blogger).
I’m really happy that i choose WP for my new blog.
Keep improving and keep up the good work!!
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Thank you WP. You make our life simple and complete.
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