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WordPress turns 8 today

May 27th, 2011 General

Exactly eight years ago today, Matt Mullenweg announced that the initially release of WordPress was available for download. We wonder if he knew what he was starting.

Much has happened with the blogging software since then. For one, WordPress has become the most well loved blog platform in the world, which is no small feat. It’s also without a doubt one of the most successful open source projects ever produced.

How many WordPress blogs are there? In December, there were more than 16 million self-hosted WordPress blogs. If you also count WordPress.com, the hosted WordPress blog service from Automattic, that number more than doubles. WordPress.com lonely now hosts more than 20 million blogs.

And yes, this blog runs on WordPress.

We’d like to take this opportunity to congratulate Matt and the whole team at Automattic, as well as everyone else who has contributed to the development of WordPress through the years. It must feel excellent to have made such a huge contribution to the evolution of the Web, and blogging in particular. As the saying goes, keep up the fantastic work!

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