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.
— Andrew Nacin (@nacin) May 27, 2011
Wow! 25 million standalone WordPress sites plus 20 million WordPress.com sites! No wonder it powers more than 14 percent of the web.
Short link to this post: https://z1.tl/yy
I client said to me this morning
Ah! Now corrected. That sentence originally started differently, and despite proof reading twice, I still missed that one.
Cheers.
(Interesting pseudonym, by the way)
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