September Wrap-Up

September was a big month for us. We acquired proofreading service After the Deadline, and launched it as a feature on WordPress.com. We implemented RSS Cloud and custom CSS revisions. The Happiness Engineers rolled out two new widgets: the RSS Links widget and the Image Widget, along with other improvements. We also launched a new theme: DePo Square.

Next month the Automattic crew is heading to Québec City for our biannual meetup. This is our time for working on special projects, like comment reply by e-mail, blavatars, and the original Prologue. More surprises are on the way.

On to the stats for September:

• 448,025 blogs were created.
• 6,325,895 posts were published.
• 481,505 new users joined.
• 7,113,257 file uploads.
• 5,384 gigabytes of new files.
• 816 terabytes of content transferred from our datacenters.
• 8,845,411 comments.
• 7,827,502 logins.
• 1,317,218,759 pageviews on WordPress.com, and another 1,350,080,907 on self-hosted blogs (2,667,299,666 total across all WordPress blogs we track).
• 2,244,794 active blogs and 23,395,291 active posts, where “active” means they got a human visitor.
• 1,510,819,760 words.

More neat stuff:

300,037 of you made use of After the Deadline.

The Ann Arbor Chronicle and the University of British Columbia are using WordPress.

Student Life relaunched on WordPress MU.

The NASA Glenn Research Center launched a resource guide for WordPress development.

September WordCamps: WordCamp Los Angeles, WordCamp Romania, WordCamp Portland, WordCamp Philippines, WordCamp Seattle, and WordCamp Birmingham.

WordCamps in October: WordCamp Spain, WordCamp Las Vegas, WordCamp Kyoto, and WordCamp Netherlands.

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