Posted: Friday, August 19th, 2011 at 5:47 pm. Filed in Uncategorized.
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 19th, 2011 at 6:19 pm
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.
August 19th, 2011 at 6:27 pm
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
August 19th, 2011 at 6:47 pm
thx continue the good work !
August 19th, 2011 at 6:50 pm
Very nice, congrats!
August 19th, 2011 at 6:55 pm
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.
August 19th, 2011 at 6:56 pm
great post.. i didn’t know so many people were using wordpress.. very informative..
August 19th, 2011 at 6:58 pm
Thank you! This is fantastic!
August 19th, 2011 at 7:20 pm
Thanks for sharing!
August 19th, 2011 at 7:26 pm
Wow, everywhere but Russia…!
August 19th, 2011 at 7:49 pm
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!
August 19th, 2011 at 7:55 pm
very bad*ss.
August 19th, 2011 at 8:11 pm
Everything you give us is adding value to your services.Welldone,more grease to your elbow.
August 19th, 2011 at 8:13 pm
Thank you Matt. God bless your vision!
August 19th, 2011 at 8:37 pm
Wow. WordPress is great! Let’s keep it just keeps on growing!
August 19th, 2011 at 8:37 pm
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!
August 19th, 2011 at 8:50 pm
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
August 19th, 2011 at 10:58 pm
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.
August 19th, 2011 at 11:08 pm
Thanks WordPress, You made it possible!
August 19th, 2011 at 11:16 pm
nice work..
August 19th, 2011 at 11:51 pm
Nice.
August 20th, 2011 at 12:54 am
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!
August 20th, 2011 at 1:08 am
like blogging with WP. thanks!
August 20th, 2011 at 1:14 am
WordPress rocks.
August 20th, 2011 at 1:53 am
Wow that is really awesome.. Great presentation!
Edwin
August 20th, 2011 at 1:56 am
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
August 20th, 2011 at 2:05 am
Wish you the same dear:)
August 20th, 2011 at 3:12 am
Very cool.
August 20th, 2011 at 3:48 am
2 Thumbs up!
August 20th, 2011 at 4:26 am
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?
August 20th, 2011 at 4:30 am
WOW! Thanking you WordPress for helping me grow together, with you, with all such wonderful and amazing people. Love you.
August 20th, 2011 at 4:31 am
I love wordpress. I can express my feelings on here.
August 20th, 2011 at 4:40 am
Keep on rockin’ in the Free World!
August 20th, 2011 at 5:19 am
First WordPress ruled the blogospere and now its heading towards the whole web – great! And Matt, you’ve gown stylish hair.
August 20th, 2011 at 5:40 am
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.
August 20th, 2011 at 6:00 am
Great stuff! I want to come to a Word Camp!
August 20th, 2011 at 6:03 am
Amazing.
I’m very happy to be apart of WordPress.
August 20th, 2011 at 6:06 am
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).
August 20th, 2011 at 6:33 am
Thank you WordPress. Open source is good. Tell that to apple.
August 20th, 2011 at 6:48 am
I like the long-term strategy if you are sincere about it.
August 20th, 2011 at 7:50 am
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.).
August 20th, 2011 at 7:52 am
Impressive!
August 20th, 2011 at 7:58 am
hurray! im part of wp!
August 20th, 2011 at 8:04 am
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.
August 20th, 2011 at 8:14 am
TY Matt… You and the team do a terrific job!
August 20th, 2011 at 8:32 am
just wanted to say i love wordpress:)
August 20th, 2011 at 9:27 am
Thank you a lot! Your attention is inspiring! I will try to do my best to develop my blog on WordPress.
August 20th, 2011 at 10:32 am
And no surprise there as WordPress is so brilliant.
August 20th, 2011 at 12:31 pm
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.
August 20th, 2011 at 12:36 pm
Interesting presentation and awsome graphics!
August 20th, 2011 at 12:46 pm
Gostei bastante da nova modalidade, obrigada a todos por nos proporcionarem mais essa novidade!
abraços Mina!
August 20th, 2011 at 1:15 pm
The dashboard makes sure I know what is happening in the creative world of communication via the internet.
August 20th, 2011 at 1:35 pm
Thanks for what you guys do. My ministry has seen tremendous growth since moving my blog to WordPress.
August 20th, 2011 at 1:38 pm
Amazing product. Thanks for your contribution to the internet and keep up this incredible tool. Kind regards.
August 20th, 2011 at 2:02 pm
I think WordPress will continue on growing!!
August 20th, 2011 at 3:02 pm
you gals and guys are the best!
August 20th, 2011 at 3:51 pm
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.
August 20th, 2011 at 3:57 pm
“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
August 20th, 2011 at 4:37 pm
Either there are some really small islands in some of the oceans listed, or the Somalia pirates really do like blogging.
August 20th, 2011 at 5:01 pm
cool stuff, no russians on wordpress huh?
August 20th, 2011 at 8:47 pm
Lots of Russians, why do you ask?
August 20th, 2011 at 5:19 pm
August 20th, 2011 at 5:34 pm
Great! This is why i love WordPress!
August 20th, 2011 at 6:42 pm
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.
August 20th, 2011 at 8:35 pm
WOOO, that’s cause WordPress Is Freaking EPIC
August 20th, 2011 at 8:45 pm
EPIC!!!!!!!
August 20th, 2011 at 9:19 pm
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)
August 20th, 2011 at 11:33 pm
WordPress is a wonderful software. I too switched from blogger to this one. I love the themes you made.
August 20th, 2011 at 11:35 pm
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.
August 21st, 2011 at 12:34 am
Very good, WordPress
August 21st, 2011 at 1:43 am
Awesome! Like it very much
August 21st, 2011 at 1:46 am
I am new to the blogging world and WordPress. So far I have enjoyed it here!
August 21st, 2011 at 2:04 am
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!
August 21st, 2011 at 2:46 am
Love this!
August 21st, 2011 at 3:17 am
The WP community beats Blogger’s community easily.
August 21st, 2011 at 4:38 am
Cool..
August 21st, 2011 at 5:05 am
impressive!
August 21st, 2011 at 5:30 am
@Matt Well there were little to no pings on the map in Russia.
August 21st, 2011 at 5:32 am
Congratulation WordPress for this Great Success.
August 21st, 2011 at 8:10 am
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, that’s great !
August 21st, 2011 at 9:05 am
Well done.
August 21st, 2011 at 11:02 am
Congrats guys!
August 21st, 2011 at 3:38 pm
From Dec 2010, I’ve started writing on Environment and sustainable business development through WordPress.com. I really love it. Thanks WordPress!