Happy Birthday WordPress – 13 Years and Counting!

WordPress hit the internet by storm 13 years ago, and you will definitely shout from the rooftop that it is the best-in-class Content Management System (CMS). WordPress is the undisputed king when it comes to setting up a website and having complete control over it. Happy Birthday WordPress!

Let’s discuss some interesting statistics about WordPress which has over the years, evolved to be our favorite.

Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little launched WordPress in 2003 and now it has grown to power 76.5 million websites on the internet. Premium users of WordPress include Facebook Newsroom, BBC America, Sony Music, eBay Inc., The New York Times, to name a few. 

WordPress is known for its easy installation and top notch customization options. Anyone can wake up to the thought of installing WordPress and make it functional, regardless of his/her coding ability.

Over the last 13 years, WordPress has developed over 44000 Plugins, 120 Languages and way back in 2014, the number of theme downloads from WordPress.org was 123,498,018 (imagine what that number will be now).

All these numbers indicate that there is absolutely no stopping now for WordPress and this infographic will tell you exactly why!

Let’s all wish WordPress a very Happy Birthday and wish that it achieves even bigger milestones in the coming years!!!

We would love to hear your journey with WordPress. How it helped, what you did, anything and everything you love about WordPress, do share with us in the comments section.

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