WordPress is the most popular blogging platform and CMS. But some of the facts about WordPress is very interesting.
Even i was shocked when i learned about it the first time.
These fun facts about WordPress will make you love it even more.
So, here are some of the most interesting facts about WordPress
- WordPress is the world’s most popular content management system powering 34% of all websites on the internet.
- WordPress has a 60.8% market share in the CMS market
- WordPress powers 14.7% of the world’s top websites
- 500+ sites are built each day using WordPress while only 60-80 per day are built on a platform like Shopify and Squarespace
- The WordPress Plugin Directory features 55,000+ plugins
- WooCommerce powers 22% of the top 1 million eCommerce sites in the world
- WordPress now powers 35.2% of websites, with a 35.2% share in the CMS market.
- WordPress 5.4 has been downloaded 10,119,547 times
- there are over 55,000 plugins on the WordPress Plugin Directory
- There are over 7,460 free themes on the WordPress Themes directory
- One of the most popular WordPress Plugin Yoast SEO is downloaded 238,335,163 times.
- You have free plugins for almost anything you need in your WordPress website
- WordPress was first launched in 2003
- It was originally built for blogging only now it is a popular CMS
- Most popular eCommerce WordPress plugin is WooCommerce
- Most sold premium WordPress theme is Avada with over 500,000 sales
- The block editor Gutenberg is considered one of the worst WordPress update till date leading to 5M+ active installs of Classic Editor and 300K+ of Disable Gutenberg
- WordPress powers over 75 million sites on the web according to WordCamp
- Even the big names like TechCrunch to TED, CNN, and Spotify publishes on WordPress.com according to WordPress
- About 70 million new posts and 77 million new comments are published each month on WordPress.com
- 71% of the blogs hosted in WordPress.com is in the English language
- WordPress releases a new default theme every year
- WordPress is older than Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
- WordPress is completely free for both personal and commercial use
- WordPress is available in 100+ languages
- WordPress is written using PHP, MySQL, Javascript, HTML, and CSS
- WordPress.com and WordPress.org is not the same, one is a blogging platform and other is open-source CMS
- WordPress can be installed within 5 minutes
- Even in just in January 2020, over 2,000 WordPress sites have hacked and redirect visitors to a number of scam sites
- WordPress.com is 4 times more popular than blogger according to Google Trends 2020
- The most popular social media platform, Facebook, uses WordPress to publish their news and announcements
- Daily newspaper Chicago Sun Times, Variety, Herald Sun, New York Post and lifestyle magazine Vogue is using WordPress
- The popular English rock band The Rolling Stones’s official website is in WordPress
- The White House website and the Obama Foundation website was also built with WordPress
- The official website for Toyota Motors Brasil was created using WordPress

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- Official websites of Popular celebrities like Usain Bolt, Katy Perry, Ariana Grande, Jay z and Justin Bieber is using WordPress
- As it is an open-source and very widely used software across the world, it is also the most hacked website CMS
- Around 8% of WordPress sites were hacked due to a weak password according to WPBeginner
- The popular shoes and bags brand Bata website was also built with WordPress
- Georgia State University website was also created using WordPress
- 41% of All Online Stores use WooCommerce which is a WordPress based eCommerce plugin
- Until the “W” watermark was introduced in early 2005, WordPress had no logo
- 4,587,129,711 Total attacks blocked in past 30 days as of April 2020
- 110,984 Malicious IPs Blacklisted in last month only
- 78% of infected websites in 2016 used WordPress
- 55% of WordPress installations were out-of-date at the time of infection according to sucuri.net
- According to SimplyHired, the average salary for “WordPress jobs” is $63,092 in 2014 which is now around $55,000 now
- The WordPress core developers are lovers of jazz music, so every major WordPress release is named after a famous jazz musician according to WordPress.org
- According to Open Hub’s Project Cost Calculator, WordPress took an estimated effort of over 112 person-years. This is based on 423,759 lines of code, with an estimated cost of over $6 million to fund a project of this size.
- According to W3techs, WordPress has 61.8% of the CMS market share — more than all other systems (eg, Drupal, Joomla) combined.
- WordPress Has Had 4,969 Commits by 70 Contributors according to whoishostingthis.com
- There Are 54,000+ Free Plugins for WordPress downloaded over 1.5 billion times
- WordPress only has 1,149 employees spread across 72 countries
- WordPress is still growing and hasn’t reached its peak yet.
- WordPress is responsible for an additional 1.1 million domain registrations every 6 months builtwith.com
- Infographic: https://blog.builtwith.com/2015/11/11/wordpress-vs-joomla-vs-drupal-the-battle-of-the-cms/
- 34% of the world’s 10,000 most popular websites use WordPress
- WordPress gets almost as many unique monthly visitors as Twitter does. (Source: Automattic)
- WordPress takes care of 80-90% of the mechanics of SEO. (Source: WordPress)
- You can’t use WordPress in a domain name as it is a registered trademark
- Term “WordPress” Global Search Volume 2.7M semrush.com

Keyword overview of “WordPress” according to Semrush.com
- Although WordPress is a nonprofit organization, Automattic, the founder company has made a revenue of $1.3 billion
- Companies like Envato and WP engine, based on WordPress products have made millions of revenue
- WordPress is a billion-dollar industry despite being a free product. WordPress themes, plugins, services, and information has a huge market worldwide.
- You can have your WordPress up and running at the price as low as $60 per year.
- 8% of the top blogs are managed using WordPress according to Technorati
- Envato runs the largest WordPress marketplace, ThemeForest with around 11,942 themes and largest WordPress plugins marketplace CodeCanyon with around 7,395 plugins
- Akismet, Yoast SEO and Contact Form 7 are the most popular WordPress plugins with more than 5 million active installs
- WordPress is 10 times more popular than Joomla and Drupal according to WebsiteSetup.org