Monday, July 11, 2011

WordPress now having 50 million websites and blogs

If you use WordPress on your blog,  you must know that it is part of a group of 50 million sites around the world who use this platform to publish content. This week, the WP and both celebrates a milestone in its history, since it is the world's most used CMS.


50 million blogs in the air thanks to WordPress, WordPress.com half relate to the service, name almost the same name that runs the platform. The other millions of blogs are those that install WP in a domain and own a server, such as the Tecnoblog.

The records WordPress.com today 2.5 billion page views per month. It is a huge amount of content consumed by more than 287 million monthly users, according to the company.

What is the main advantage of WordPress? Total freedom to modify the source code according to your needs. It's what we do here in TB since developed their own solutions to various challenges we face - our highlights bar, visible on the cover of the site is just one of them.

And the main benefit of WordPress.com: ease of having a blog with a few clicks, without worrying about hosting, domain, access, nothing of the sort. You create an address runaway and writing.

Good point. It also costs nothing to use the WP, the platform is service installable or dot-com.