20 Unbelievable Facts about WordPress

20 UNBELIEVABLE FACTS ABOUT WORDPRESS W 1. WHO FOUNDED WORDPRESS? 2. HOW OLD IS WORDPRESS? Matt Mullenweg, Mike Little WordPress is 17 years old. It was founded in May, 2003 3. HOW MANY WEBSITES ARE 4. WHAT IS WORDPRESS'S MARKET POWERED BY WORDPRESS? SHARE? It's used by more than 309K of top 1 WordPress powers 39% of the whole web Million sites in the world 5. WHAT IS THE MOST POPULAR 6. WHAT IS THE COMPANY BEHIND VERSION OF WORDPRESS? WORDPRESS? Most popular version: 5.5 (used on 44% of websites) Automattic has 1,296 employees from 77 countries speaking 95 different languages 7. HOW MANY TIMES WORDPRESS HAS 8. IN HOW MANY LANGUAGES IS BEEN DOWNLOADED? WORDPRESS AVAILABLE? WordPress 5.5 has been downloaded It's available in 205 languages more than 62 Mln times 9. HOW MANY FREE PLUGINS ARE 10. HOW MANY FREE THEMES ARE AVAILABLE IN WORDPRESS? AVAILABLE IN WORDPRESS? There are more than 58,000 free plugins There are almost 8,000 free themes available available 11. WHAT ARE THE MOST POPULAR 12. WHAT ARE THE MOST POPULAR FREE WORDPRESS PLUGINS? FREE WORDPRESS THEMES? The most popular plugins (5+ MIn installations): Contact Form 7, Yoast SEO, Classic Editor, Akismet Spam Protection, Elementor, WooCommerce, Jetpack The most popular themes (1+ Mln installations): Twenty Twenty, Twenty Seventeen, Astra 13. HOW MANY SPAM COMMENTS HAVE 14. HOW MANY WORDCAMPS HAVE BEEN BLOCKED IN WP? BEEN ORGANIZED TO DATE? More than 500+ Billion spam comments More than 1072 WordCamps organized blocked to date to date 15. WHAT POPULAR BRANDS USE WP 16. HOW MANY TIMES / MONTH IS THE TO POWER THEIR SITES? WORD "WORDPRESS" SEARCHED IN GOOGLE? Popular brands using WordPress: Vogue, Quartz, Toyota Motors, New York Post, More than 4.9 Million searches / month in Time, Sony Music, The Walt Disney Google search Company, etc. 17. HOW MUCH DO FREELANCE 18. WHY EVERY MAJOR WORDPRESS WORDPRESS DEVELOPERS EARN? RELEASE IS NICKNAMED? Freelance WordPress developer average Every major release is named in honor of rate per hour: $25 – $95 a jazz musician 19. WHAT IS THE MOST POPULAR 20. WHAT IS THE LATEST VERSION OF LANGUAGE OF WORDPRESS? WORDPRESS Most popular language: English (used by cca. 50% of websites) The latest version of WordPress is 5.5.3, released in October 2020 https://wordpress.org/support/article/history/ https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/cms https://trends.builtwith.com/cms https://automattic.com/about/ https://wordpress.org/about/stats/ https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/ https://www.upwork.com/hire/wordpress-developers/ https://wordpress.org/download/counter/ https://wordpress.org/themes/browse/new/ https://wordpress.org/plugins/ https://central.wordcamp.org/about/ https://akismet.com/#countUp https://ahrefs.com/keywords-explorer https://wordpress.org/showcase/ Created by: Sources: A WPINDIGO wpindigo.com