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

1. WordPress is the world’s most popular content management system powering 34% of all websites on the internet.
2. WordPress has a 60.8% market share in the CMS market
3. WordPress powers 14.7% of the world’s top websites
4. 500+ sites are built each day using WordPress while only 60-80 per day are built on a platform like Shopify and Squarespace
5. The WordPress Plugin Directory features 55,000+ plugins
6. WooCommerce powers 22% of the top 1 million eCommerce sites in the world
7. WordPress now powers 35.2% of websites, with a 35.2% share in the CMS market.
8. WordPress 5.4 has been downloaded 10,119,547 times
9. there are over 55,000 plugins on the WordPress Plugin Directory
10. There are over 7,460 free themes on the WordPress Themes directory
11. One of the most popular WordPress Plugin Yoast SEO is downloaded 238,335,163 times.
12. You have free plugins for almost anything you need in your WordPress website

13. WordPress was first launched in 2003
14. It was originally built for blogging only now it is a popular CMS
15. Most popular eCommerce WordPress plugin is WooCommerce
16. Most sold premium WordPress theme is Avada with over 500,000 sales
17. 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
18. WordPress powers over 75 million sites on the web according to WordCamp
19. Even the big names like TechCrunch to TED, CNN, and Spotify publishes on WordPress.com according to WordPress
20. About 70 million new posts and 77 million new comments are published each month on WordPress.com
21. 71% of the blogs hosted in WordPress.com is in the English language
22. WordPress releases a new default theme every year
23. WordPress is older than Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
24. WordPress is completely free for both personal and commercial use
25. WordPress is available in 100+ languages
26. WordPress is written using PHP, MySQL, Javascript, HTML, and CSS
27. WordPress.com and WordPress.org is not the same, one is a blogging platform and other is open-source CMS
28. WordPress can be installed within 5 minutes
29. Even in just in January 2020, over 2,000 WordPress sites have hacked and redirect visitors to a number of scam sites
30. WordPress.com is 4 times more popular than blogger according to Google Trends 2020
31. The most popular social media platform, Facebook, uses WordPress to publish their news and announcements
32. Daily newspaper Chicago Sun Times, Variety, Herald Sun, New York Post and lifestyle magazine Vogue is using WordPress
33. The popular English rock band The Rolling Stones’s official website is in WordPress
34. The White House website and the Obama Foundation website was also built with WordPress
35. The official website for Toyota Motors Brasil was created using WordPress

screenshot of https://wordpress.org/showcase/

36. Official websites of Popular celebrities like Usain Bolt, Katy Perry, Ariana Grande, Jay z and Justin Bieber is using WordPress
37. As it is an open-source and very widely used software across the world, it is also the most hacked website CMS
38. Around 8% of WordPress sites were hacked due to a weak password according to WPBeginner
39. The popular shoes and bags brand Bata website was also built with WordPress
40. Georgia State University website was also created using WordPress
41. 41% of All Online Stores use WooCommerce which is a WordPress based eCommerce plugin
42. Until the “W” watermark was introduced in early 2005, WordPress had no logo
43. 4,587,129,711 Total attacks blocked in past 30 days as of April 2020
44. 110,984 Malicious IPs Blacklisted in last month only
45. 78% of infected websites in 2016 used WordPress
46. 55% of WordPress installations were out-of-date at the time of infection according to sucuri.net
47. According to SimplyHired, the average salary for “WordPress jobs” is $63,092 in 2014 which is now around $55,000 now
48. 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
49. 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.
50. According to W3techs, WordPress has 61.8% of the CMS market share — more than all other systems (eg, Drupal, Joomla) combined.
51. WordPress Has Had 4,969 Commits by 70 Contributors according to whoishostingthis.com
52. There Are 54,000+ Free Plugins for WordPress downloaded over 1.5 billion times
53. WordPress only has 1,149 employees spread across 72 countries
54. WordPress is still growing and hasn’t reached its peak yet.
55. WordPress is responsible for an additional 1.1 million domain registrations every 6 months builtwith.com
56. Infographic: https://blog.builtwith.com/2015/11/11/wordpress-vs-joomla-vs-drupal-the-battle-of-the-cms/
57. 34% of the world’s 10,000 most popular websites use WordPress
58. WordPress gets almost as many unique monthly visitors as Twitter does. (Source: Automattic)
59. WordPress takes care of 80-90% of the mechanics of SEO. (Source: WordPress)
60. You can’t use WordPress in a domain name as it is a registered trademark
61. Term “WordPress” Global Search Volume 2.7M semrush.com

Keyword overview of “WordPress” according to Semrush.com

62. Although WordPress is a nonprofit organization, Automattic, the founder company has made a revenue of $1.3 billion
63. Companies like Envato and WP engine, based on WordPress products have made millions of revenue 
64. WordPress is a billion-dollar industry despite being a free product. WordPress themes, plugins, services, and information has a huge market worldwide.
65. You can have your WordPress up and running at the price as low as $60 per year.
66. 8% of the top blogs are managed using WordPress according to Technorati
67. Envato runs the largest WordPress marketplace, ThemeForest with around 11,942 themes and largest WordPress plugins marketplace CodeCanyon with around 7,395 plugins
68. Akismet, Yoast SEO and Contact Form 7 are the most popular WordPress plugins with more than 5 million active installs
69. WordPress is 10 times more popular than Joomla and Drupal according to WebsiteSetup.org