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Jul 15
2011
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WordPress Now Powers Over 50 Million Websites: What's all the Hype?Posted by: Jenna Baird in Web 2.0 on Jul 15, 2011 Tagged in: Web 2.0
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Open source platform WordPress has reached an important milestone: It now powers more than 50 million websites, about half of which are hosted on WordPress.com. More than 287 million people view more than 2.5 billion pages on WordPress.com each month and, on an average day, WordPress.com users create about 500,000 new posts and 400,000 new comments, according to WordPress’ official stats. So, what makes WordPress so popular?
Due to the simplicity and versatility of the platform, WordPress isn’t only used to power blogs, it can also be used for running various types of personal, business and community websites. Twist uses WordPress to build robust e-business sites for clients, which not only saves our clients money, but it also puts control of the website at their fingertips.
Open source content management systems, like WordPress and Joomla, allow companies to create sites with rich, multimedia content that include blogs, videos, audio, photos, RSS feeds, lead capture forms, social media, communities and ecommerce. Sites are produced quickly and at a low cost, thanks to open source content management systems.
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