Just WordPress Facts

WordPress Overview

1. WordPress is the world leading Content management system (CMS).
2. Word-press was founded in May, 27, 2003 (14 years ago) by Matt Mullenweg.
3. Word Press in available in many languages and is translations ready for a number of different languages including German, Croatian, Japanese, Norwegian, Slovenian, Hebrew, Spanish, Indonasian, English (Canada), Swedish, Slovak, Romanian, Polish, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Italian, Dutch, Macedonian, French – and so many more, up to 68+ Languages.
4. 2.13 Million articles are published on WordPress site through Jetpack plugin.
5. WordPress existed before Twitter and Facebook.
6. Jason Santa Maria designed the WordPress logo back in 2005.  WordPress didn’t have any logo for 2 continuous years.
7. The name “WordPress” was originally coined by Christine Tremoule.
8. Co-Founder of WordPress Matt Mullenweg slept 6 hours a day to be more productive.
9. WordPress releases are named after jazz artists.
10. Wapuu is the unofficial mascot of WordPress.

WordPress Cost

1. WordPress is Free the only cost you pay is for Domain, Hosting, premium themes, paid plugins, developer.
2. WordPress theme average price is $57.54
3. The Real Cost of Building a WordPress Site is wide, cost may vary from $10 up to $1 M and even more.

WordPress Market Share and Presence

1. 29% of website online are powered by WordPress (That’s around 66 Million Website).
2. WordPress market share is 59.5% of all CMS.
3. WordPress gets 1.7 Billion results in Google Search.
4. 49% of top 1M websites user word press 5% use Drupal, 3% use Joomla.
5. As of 2015 34% of US websites and 36% of UK Website were developed on WordPress.
6. The most profitable WP companies are Automattic with 1.2B in revenue, WPengine with 73M in revenue and Envato with 94M in revenue.
7. ThemeForest by Envato total transactions worth in 2008 from Word-press theme was $286,355,625.
8. WordPress is used for developing Government websites such as: United states (mission Geneva), Sweden’s Official website, Milwaukee (police news) and The Republic of the Philippines website.
9. 44.8 of universities, colleges and schools all over the world use Wp, to name a few: Harvard Blogs, University of Berlin, Georgia State University, Boston University Study Abroad, The University of Maine, and the list goes on.
10. WordPress powers over 28% of all online stores through a 3rd party plugin called Woo-commerce.
11. WordPress is used to develop many celebrities websites like Stephen Collins, Martha Stewart, Perez Hilton, Russel Brand, Serena Williams, Jay Z, Sylvester Stallone, Katy Perry, Arianne Grande, Rolling Stones.
12. In 2016, there were 3193 WordPress meetups, in 58 countries, attended by 62,566 users. Official wordpress events are called WORDCAMP.

WordPress Technical Insight

1. WordPress operates on Unix-like, Windows.
2. bbPress, BuddyPress, and GlotPress are sister companies which fall under the WordPress umbrella.
3. WordPress release a new update on an average of 42 days.
4. WordPress is developed in PHP programming language and uses MySQL for database and JavaScript.
5. Wordpres.com is not the same as Worpdress.org.
6. Word-press Developer salary in the United States is approximately$71,268 per year.

WordPress Websites sold for big bucks

• TechCrunch founded in 2005 sold for $30 M in 2010.
• Bankaholic founded in 2066, sold for $15 M in 2008.
• Deadline Hollywood Founded in 2006 sold for $14 M in 2009.
• Wonkette founded in 2004, sold for $12 M in 2006.