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.

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.

Lots of love Gramps, Nan, and Jamie

xoxoxox

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

Hope you have a great day,

Uncle Mike, Auntie Jan, and Jamie

xoxox

Lots of love,
Mike and Jamie
X X X

Mike Mum and Jamie

xoxox

Mike Jan & Jamie

xoxox

It’s best to read the notes in the “Notes on slide x” tab so that everything makes sense! I also link to some of the plugins I used at the end.

Amazingly, the presentation features on the SlideShare home page today along with a couple of other presentations from WordCamp UK! See the “featured” section in the right hand column. Woo Hoo!

I have still to finish my write-up of the weekend, but will hopefully get that done ‘real soon’.