WordPress is celebrating it’s eighth year since it was conceived and brought into existence by Matt Mullenweg and co-founder Mike Little. Originally forked from it’s predecessor which was called b2; WordPress has grown from being a blogging engine for a niche crowd to one of the most widely used content management systems on the web and even now progresses into new territory as an engine for web apps. This site has been created to document some of the most interesting news and statistics for WordPress and it’s ecosystem.
WordPress Statistics
WordPress was used by more than 35% of web as of July 2020.
WordPress is the most popular blogging system in use on the Web, at more than 60 million websites.
WordPress has over 40,501 plugins available.
Learn more in the latest State of the Word videos and presentations.