Simon D reminded me that it is now nine years since my fate­ful com­ment on Matt’s blog that kicked off this whole WordPress thing!

Nine years ago today @mikelittlezed1 floated an idea which even­tu­ally became WordPress. #thanksmike http://t.co/teYbVHX8

Wed­nes­day, 25 Janu­ary 2012 10:52 via Fire­fox Share (alpha)ReplyRetweetFavor­ite

@simond

Simon Dick­son

WordPress is really shap­ing up, and is an ever­more stable and func­tional CMS plat­form. The stat­ist­ics con­tinue to be aston­ish­ing, with more than 70 mil­lion sites around the world. That’s nearly 16% of the web!

WordPress is sup­port­ing a whole industry of WordPress experts, includ­ing me: I’m just start­ing my fourth year as an inde­pend­ent WordPress spe­cial­ist.

Praise must go as usual to the fant­astic com­munity around WordPress, the sin­gu­lar vis­ion of Matt Mul­len­weg, and the awe­some power of the GNU GPL open source license.

With ver­sion 3.4 cur­rently in the mak­ing, I pre­dict it will be another great year for WordPress.

Today is WordPress’ offi­cial eighth birth­day (the anniversary of the first release).

I still mar­vel at the incred­ible dis­tance it has come. I’m also still proud that I had a part in its birth. But even more, I mar­vel at the won­der­ful con­tri­bu­tion of all the WordPress com­munity make to this fant­astic project.

A cli­ent said to me this morn­ing “This WordPress is bril­liant isn’t it?†As I helped him set up his fourth WordPress site. You can’t get much clearer praise than that.

So raise a vir­tual beer (or other non-alcoholic bever­age if, like me, you are tee­total) to WordPress, the com­munity, and to another year.

Update: I just spot­ted this tweet from Andrew Nacin:

At more than 20 mil­lion WordPress.com blogs, that puts WordPress at north of 45 mil­lion sites. Wowza. Happy birth­day indeed.

Fri­day, 27 May 2011 15:47 via webReplyRetweetFavor­ite

@nacin

Andrew Nacin

Wow! 25 mil­lion stan­dalone WordPress sites plus 20 mil­lion WordPress.com sites! No won­der it powers more than 14 per­cent of the web.

Hope you have a great day.

Lots of love Gramps, Nan, and Jamie

xox­oxox

 

Wow! Another year has passed and it is now eight years since my fate­ful com­ment on Matt’s blog that kicked off this whole WordPress thing!

WordPress is now a mature CMS plat­form driv­ing 13% of the web! It is used for an aston­ish­ing array of very dif­fer­ent web sites around the world, from the humblest one per­son blog to award-winning edu­ca­tion sites, celebrity sites, news­pa­pers, and even world lead­ers!

WordPress is sup­port­ing a whole industry of WordPress experts, includ­ing me: I’m now in my third year as an inde­pend­ent WordPress spe­cial­ist.

I believe that WordPress has achieved this massive suc­cess in no small way because of the fant­astic com­munity around it, the keen-eyed vis­ion of Matt Mul­len­weg, and the awe­some power of the GNU GPL open source license.

With ver­sion 3.1 just around the corner, I pre­dict it will be another great year for WordPress.

Hope you have a good one.

See you later,

Mike, Jan & Jamie

x0x0x

Happy birth­day Kate!

Hope you have a great day,

Uncle Mike, Auntie Jan, and Jamie

xoxox

Have a good one.

Lots of love,
Mike and Jamie
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Have a great day. See you soon.

Mike Mum and Jamie

xoxox