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

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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.