Growth of WordPress
Over on the WordPress.org blog, there’s an interesting story about the growth of WordPress, the software that powers WP.com here, and the ecosystem around it.
WP.com is different from every other social platform out there because in addition to giving you ownership of your data you get ownership of the code running your data as well, you could run the same Open source software yourself, and in fact we’ll even help you do it.
Open Source is like a Bill of Rights for software that protects your essential freedoms. When you bring a friend to WordPress you can do it without worry because we’re building something to be around ten, twenty, thirty years from now.
If you’d like to learn more about what’s happening and coming in the wider world of WordPress, check out this presentation I made:
Happy blogging. 🙂
- August 19, 2011
WordPress.com News 
WordPress is getting more and more popular. I switched from Blogger to WordPress because I liked it’s features and that WordPress was more professional than Blogger.
LikeLike
Good stuff Sir. Im new at all this and could use some advice on how to get more trfc. to my blog site. Thanks again
LikeLike
thx continue the good work !
LikeLike
Very nice, congrats!
LikeLike
Thanks for creating this video so those of us who do not attend WordCamps are included. I really appreciate it it as I’m mobility and visually challenged and travel poses many difficulties for me.
LikeLike
great post.. i didn’t know so many people were using wordpress.. very informative.. 😀
LikeLike
Thank you! This is fantastic!
LikeLike
Thanks for sharing!
LikeLike
Wow, everywhere but Russia…!
LikeLike
Hey Matt,
I just want to say that I am a new blogger and I have LOVED WordPress.com! It has been a breeze setting up my blog and I love the support – especially the stats that are provided. Happy Blogging!
LikeLike
very bad*ss.
LikeLike
Everything you give us is adding value to your services.Welldone,more grease to your elbow.
LikeLike
Thank you Matt. God bless your vision!
LikeLike
Wow. WordPress is great! Let’s keep it just keeps on growing!
LikeLike
It was nice to see the presentation, so I can see the face behind WordPress, but what I could say is, it would be nice if you add captions to it, so I was able to follow it better, as I am deaf. And I know I’m not the only deaf user that uses WordPress. That is the only one negativity I can say. I really hope you will take on board adding captions, so us deaf people can follow better.
Other than that, I’m so happy with my wordpress.com and would recommend it to anyone. I also have never forgot how a blog I accidently deleted once, was rescued very quicky by your staff.
Thank you WordPress! 🙂
LikeLike
I’ve been using WordPress for a very long time. It changed my life in many ways. It became a platform for my writing and art and for my endeavors like the feature documentary I am making about the forgotten refugees from Bhutan. Without WordPress I would never have been able to gain the visibility I am having now. My work has brought me dear friends and actually the quality of the WordPress based websites I make is partly responsible for bringing to the other side of the world to do what I am doing now.
In Nepal I’ve been training young refugees in refugee-camps to start writing blogs using WordPress. An they now do so! WordPress is an important communication tool for the Bhutanese refugee community that is more and more living in diaspora globally.
I thought you might be interested to get to know this.
Peace and love,
Alice Verheij
LikeLike
This is a great news for bloggers. It opens access to a broad spectrum of people who are finding a place to voice their concerns. Thank you WordPress for encourging lines of communication.
LikeLike
Thanks WordPress, You made it possible!
LikeLike
nice work.. 🙂
LikeLike
Nice.
LikeLike
hey thanks for this informative post, I learned a lot! I hope more people get into WordPress, I’ll do my best to spread the word. Thanks!
LikeLike
like blogging with WP. thanks!
LikeLike
WordPress rocks.
LikeLike
Wow that is really awesome.. Great presentation!
Edwin
LikeLike
growth of wordpress from the map really looks impressive. especially when msn space phases out, wordpress starts to get on the show in china… cooooool 😉
LikeLike
Wish you the same dear:)
LikeLike
Very cool. 🙂
LikeLike
2 Thumbs up!
LikeLike
Ownership of the “code?” Please oh please oh please WordPress, I have enough trouble getting the posts up. Owning the code? No thanks I think. You own it and I post. How’s that?
LikeLike
WOW! Thanking you WordPress for helping me grow together, with you, with all such wonderful and amazing people. Love you.
LikeLike
I love wordpress. I can express my feelings on here.
LikeLike
Keep on rockin’ in the Free World!
LikeLike
First WordPress ruled the blogospere and now its heading towards the whole web – great! And Matt, you’ve gown stylish hair. 🙂
LikeLike
I’m glad Matt mentioned the fellow who’s doing WP sites for the blind, because this should ring true for anyone who even needs glasses.
This presentation, while superb as-is, would have been much better had it been recorded in HD. At its highest resolution (480) it just looks fuzzy in full-screen mode even on a 22″ screen.
Other than that, being a relative newcomer to WordPress, I love what you’ve done with it and I like the way you’re thinking.
LikeLike
Great stuff! I want to come to a Word Camp! 🙂
LikeLike
Amazing.
I’m very happy to be apart of WordPress.
LikeLike
I think WordPress is awesome, because it provides a free platform through which people can give voice to their opinions, share their experiences, and learn about ways of life in different parts of the world (or, like my blog, food and culture in different parts of the world).
LikeLike
Thank you WordPress. Open source is good. Tell that to apple.
LikeLike
I like the long-term strategy if you are sincere about it.
LikeLike
This is exactly the reason why I love WordPress(.com): “WP.com is different from every other social platform out there because in addition to giving you ownership of your data you get ownership of the code running your data as well, you could run the same Open source software yourself, and in fact we’ll even help you do it.” – But… there’s Diaspora following exactly the same approach; http://eicker.at/DiasporaSummary – I’d love to see more collaboration between WP and Diaspora in the future (e.g. cross-posting etc.).
LikeLike
Impressive!
LikeLike
hurray! im part of wp! 🙂
LikeLike
Wow.
Hey hasn’t apple’s App store success proven that Freeware is not necessary. People only wanted fairware- a fair price for software, and particularly an affordable price.
While I totally support your viewpoint, I think that the international community will benefit a lot more if developers charge a small price for everything, say $10 for a WordPress site. 🙂
LikeLike
TY Matt… You and the team do a terrific job! 🙂
LikeLike
just wanted to say i love wordpress:)
LikeLike
Thank you a lot! Your attention is inspiring! I will try to do my best to develop my blog on WordPress.
LikeLike
And no surprise there as WordPress is so brilliant.
LikeLike
I’d love to be on WordPress,however, the site asked me to change my password no less than three times in 24 hours, the last time I tried blogging here.
LikeLike
Interesting presentation and awsome graphics!
LikeLike
Gostei bastante da nova modalidade, obrigada a todos por nos proporcionarem mais essa novidade!
abraços Mina!
LikeLike
The dashboard makes sure I know what is happening in the creative world of communication via the internet.
LikeLike
Thanks for what you guys do. My ministry has seen tremendous growth since moving my blog to WordPress.
LikeLike
Amazing product. Thanks for your contribution to the internet and keep up this incredible tool. Kind regards.
LikeLike
I think WordPress will continue on growing!!
LikeLike
you gals and guys are the best!
LikeLike
I enjoyed watching this video. The presentation really enhanced the points Matt made. I’ve learned some things about WordPress that I didn’t know before, especially about the human element and thought that continues to be invested. All in all, this video made me proud to be using WordPress, and I’m looking forward to the next desire path.
LikeLike
“Open Source is like a Bill of Rights for software that protects your essential freedoms. When you bring a friend to WordPress you can do it without worry because we’re building something to be around ten, twenty, thirty years from now.”
Very nicely put, and the thing that I see many proprietary software developers underestimate, or fail to understand. The difference was not so big just a couple of years ago—when you pretty much could go to a store and buy a proprietary application, take it home, install it and use it. But today, many developers and publishers seem to be focused on taking away as many rights from their customers as possible, even skirting the law to do it, such as the first-sale doctrine. At the moment I think the end-users conscious of this are in a minority. But I suppose, and hope, that the more these schemes will inevitably show their ugly side of providing no long-term guarantees, people will start to care. Once they lose all their work and data because some server for “authenticating” their software is no longer around, they’re hopefully going to make a more informed choice next time.
Let’s continue to help exterminate the beasts of DRM and oppressive service attachments 🙂
LikeLike
Either there are some really small islands in some of the oceans listed, or the Somalia pirates really do like blogging.
LikeLike
cool stuff, no russians on wordpress huh?
LikeLike
Lots of Russians, why do you ask?
LikeLike
🙂
LikeLike
Great! This is why i love WordPress!
LikeLike
WordPress has been the center of my charity work in the form of two-non profit poetry books I published in 2005. A third is pending, with postings from that book on my wordpress blog. I have been with WordPress for five years now. I cannot relate in adquate words the great blessings I have received since becoming a WordPress blog member. The individuals I have had contact with via the WordPress program who are also WordPress Bloggers themselves, would be the kind of people I would invite into my home, anytime.
In addition to my posted poetry, I have also had the opportunity to continue as a community activist in my city of McKinney, Texas over the last five years. McKinney, Texas has been my home for over forty years. I know for a fact my postings on WordPress has brought positive changes to my city over the years. Matt, thank you for this wonderful program.
LikeLike
WOOO, that’s cause WordPress Is Freaking EPIC 😀
LikeLike
EPIC!!!!!!!
LikeLike
No Q&A Session after “State of the Word”? At least I couldn’t find any on WordPress.tv.
Impressive growth. Over 14% of all webpages sounds like you’re slowly gonna take over the web. 😉
I think dwashba is referring to the small amount of blips/markers in russia on the GoogleMap above. Russia seems like a white spot. 😉
As for WordPress.com I would like to see more buddypress-like Features in the future. Post Formats for all themes and page templates for these formats so that we could e.g. have a page that only shows our “asides”. Sort of like a twitter replacement with the advantage that it’s my data and I could export/move them at any time.
Cheers
Martin(IQ)
LikeLike
WordPress is a wonderful software. I too switched from blogger to this one. I love the themes you made.
LikeLike
WordPress is great, partly because we all retain ownership of our content, and partly because it’s just so simple to use while still creating professional results. It just makes life easy.
I’ve been personal blogging for about a year or so, but recently needed to start another site. I did think about getting web designers in, but then realised I could do everything I needed within WordPress so started a second blog and used the buy domain option to get a professional-looking address for it.
LikeLike
Very good, WordPress 🙂
LikeLike
Awesome! Like it very much 🙂
LikeLike
I am new to the blogging world and WordPress. So far I have enjoyed it here!
LikeLike
If i didnt have WordPress, i wouldnt have a career or a life. WordPress has made me over $350k in the past 2 years. Thanks!
LikeLike
Love this!
LikeLike
The WP community beats Blogger’s community easily.
LikeLike
Cool..
LikeLike
impressive!
LikeLike
@Matt Well there were little to no pings on the map in Russia.
LikeLike
Congratulation WordPress for this Great Success.
LikeLike
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, that’s great !
LikeLike
Well done.
LikeLike
Congrats guys! 🙂
LikeLike
From Dec 2010, I’ve started writing on Environment and sustainable business development through WordPress.com. I really love it. Thanks WordPress!
LikeLike
Hi Matt & team, thanks for the great presentation (nice visuals!) and making WordPress the great writing platform it is! I was with Blogger for 8 years and I switched to WordPress about a year ago. It’s inspirational to see the changes and progress that WordPress is making. Really appreciate the work you guys are doing! 🙂
LikeLike
Good on you WordPress 🙂
LikeLike
I think WordPress is fantastic. I chose it specifically when I decided to set up a blog because of its features and wide community. Keep up the good work! 🙂
LikeLike
I am really enjoying the functionality of my WordPress blog. Congratulations!
LikeLike
TY Matt….WordPress makes writing and posting easy ans fun 🙂
LikeLike
just discovered wordpress and I LOVE IT!!
LikeLike
I love WordPress. Its so much better than Blogger. Thanks for not blasting us with ads and thanks for making it easy to use for us non techie nerds. Good luck for the future: )
PS: I also love the hair 😉
LikeLike
WordPress is the best way to go. Especially that you can use apps on your phone to blog as you move.
LikeLike
WordPress is the best blogging software out there! Thank you!
LikeLike
How GREAT is this!!! And to think it’s really just a small dip into all that you do….. It shows that you enjoy your work in making things enjoyable for everyone coming to WordPress. Thank you very much!
LikeLike
I’m going to have my daughter watch this video and eventually turn her from “her blog” to a wordpress blog. She’s only 15, but I’m pushing her toward wordpress more and more and I think once she really sees the potential, where she can create a blog just as fun as “her blog” she’ll definitely be a die hard for life. I’m just really excited Detroit is gearing up for another WordPress camp and I’m spreading the love of WordPress all throughout Motown!
LikeLike
Since one year, I have the same look as Matt. Please don’t shave your head like Bruce Willis cuz I will not follow you ! 😉
LikeLike
Hooray for wordpress! Hooray for blogging!
LikeLike
I’m a graphic designer who thinks WordPress is just beginning, it’s been around for a while but it really has a glorious future with an even bigger part to be play on the web. I also still blog on Blogger and I think we bloggers should not forget the contribution that site has made to the web. WordPress, thankfully has never shown a “them or us” mentality, that’s whats makes WP a truly global and expansive business.
LikeLike
Loved the presentation Matt, it was fantastic! You have a wonderful enthusiasm for what you do! I am using WordPress to blog and it is wonderfully easy to use. I enjoy the simplicity of the interface and how you can customise so greatly. Thank you for the opportunity to share my thoughts! Kind Blessings! Sista Avatar
LikeLike