WordPress 4.1 Gets Roughly 1 Million Downloads Every Two Days + Other Mesmerizing WordPress Stats

How HAS 2014 BEEN FOR WORDPRESS ? SO TODAY, RIGHT AT THE... ... BEGINNING OF 2015, WE'RE TAKING A LOOK BACK AT SOME OF THE STATS AND GOINGS-ON IN THE WORDPRESS WORLD IN THE PAST 12 MONTHS : 19.1% As OF DECEMBER 2014... WORDPRESS RUNS 19.1% (157,418 SITES IN TOTAL) OF QUANTCAST'S TOP 1,000,000 SITES ON THE WEB BY TRAFFIC. WANT AN EVEN MORE IMPRESSIVE NUMBER? WORDPRESS ACTUALLY RUNS 4.5% OF THE ENTIRE INTERNET. EACH DAY 13,600,000 PEOPLE VIEW 600,000,000 PAGES 1,420,000 NEW POSTS BEING PUBLISHED EVERY SINGLE DAY 4.1 “DINAH" WORDPRESS MAJOR VERSIONS OF WORDPRESS GET RELEASED EVERY 152 DAYS ON THE AVERAGE. AND JUST AROUND A MONTH AGO, WE SAW THE RELEASE OF THE NEWEST ONE. "DINAH" IS THE 25TH VERSION OF WORDPRESS NAMED AFTER A FAMOUS JAZZ MUSICIAN - DINAH WASHINGTON. HERE ARE ALL OF THE GREATS WHO GOT THEIR VERSIONS OF WORDPRESS IN THE PAST: WORDPRESS GETS BIGGER AND BETTER WP 4.1 FEATURES 394,243 LINES OF CODE 96,924 LINES OF COMMENTS 17,599 LINES WERE ADDED How QUICKLY PEOPLE DOWNLOAD WORDPRESS? THE RATE IS IMPRESSIVE THE NEWEST VERSION IS GETTING DOWNLOADED 1,000,000 TIMES EVERY TWO DAYS INTERESTINGLY THOUGH IN SPITE OF THIS NUMBER, THE NEWEST VERSION 7.4% OF WORDPRESS IS ACTUALLY ONE OF THE LEAST USED ONES AT THE MOMENT - 7.4% SITES HAVE UPGRADED TO IT. THE ONE VERSION TO RULE THEM ALL IN TERMS OF VOLUME IS STILL THE GOOD OL' WORDPRESS 3.0 - CURRENTLY 16.7% OF ALL WORDPRESS SITES USE IT. WHAT PLUGINS AND THEMES PEOPLE LOVE? THE TOP 10 WORDPRESS PLUGINS • Akismet • Contact Form 7 • Jetpack by WordPress.com • Google Analytics by Yoast • WooCommerce • WordPress SEO by Yoast • Wordfence Security • All in One SEO Pack • NextGEN Gallery • Really Simple CAPTCHA THE TOP 10 VWORDPRESS THEMES • Twenty Twelve Twenty Fourteen • Twenty Eleven Twenty Thirteen • Twenty Ten • ColorWay • Virtue • Customizr • Responsive • GeneratePress WORDPRESS COMMUNITY BROUGHT A LOT OF INTERESTING THINGS TO THE 2014 WORDPRESS COMMUNITY, WHICH CONTINUES TO GROW LIKE THERE'S NO TOMORROW. 80 OFFICIAL WORDCAMPS IN 29. COUNTRIES WORDCAMPS STILL NOT ANYWHERE NEAR You? How ABOUT JOINING ONE OF THE 685 WORDPRESS MEETUP GROUPS. IN TOTAL, THEY HAVE 169,674 MEMBERS, IN 55 COUNTRIES. WHAT WILL 2015 BE FOR WORDPRESS? ANY IDEAS ? codeinwp.blog Designer's Guide To WordPress www.codeinwp.com/blog