About WordPress
WordPress is a state-of-the-art Internet website publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards and usability. It’s the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on hundreds of thousands of sites and seen by tens of millions of people around the world every day.
WordPress is an open source project, which means there are hundreds of people all over the world working on it, in fact many more than most commercial platforms! The security of the software, vitally important in the current climate, is vastly improved by the involvement of the friendly international WordPress community.
Open Source is becoming the a very popular development model as the internet matures. GPL licensed platforms like WordPress and Wiki (which drives Wikipedia) are now delivering enterprise class performance, often overtaking commercial alternatives. The open nature of the code means that anyone can edit it and submit improvements to the core development team and community. This leads to rapid product improvements and optimisation, with individuals contributing towards thousands of hours of coding, research and development.
Figures speak for themselves…
The popularity of WordPress is growing rapidly, with a new installations estimated at 1 every 8 seconds around the world as developers leverage it’s ease of use and speed of website delivery. This can been seen from the download figures - in 2006 it was downloaded 1,545,703 times, in 2007 3,816,965 downloads - more than double the previous year’s figure! Out of the top 100 Technocrati ranked blogs over 85 of them use wordpress reaching a readership of over 100 billion per month.
Encouraged by a friendly community and flexible architechture, developers have been busy extending WordPress through it’s plugin system. Once again we think the figures speak for themselves - 191,567 downloads of 371 unique plugins in 2006. In 2007 there was an incredible 15x growth, with 2,845,884 downloads of 1,384 plugins!
Who uses WordPress?
WordPress is used throughout the world to drive anything from a simple blog right through to a fully- blown community based website. Designers love it’s powerful, clean template system, coders love it’s plugin architecture and publishers love it’s simplicity!
It’s a winning combination leading to WordPress being adopted by some of the most prolific bloggers on the planet, along with a number of high profile companies including The New York Times, BBC, CNN and Yahoo.
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