WordPress Hits 50 Million Blogs

Another milestone for creator Mullenweg

Wordpress celebrated its 50 millionth blog on Sunday—half of which are self-hosted. Just a day after reaching the achievement, WordPress welcomed more than 130,000 more self-hosting bloggers to the WordPress family. That milestone is a happy occasion for blog platform creator Matt Mullenweg; it also highlights WordPress’ significant web presence.

WordPress reportedly powers 14 percent of websites worldwide, with platform users publishing an average of around 500,000 posts daily. Monthly, more than 287 million people find themselves on WordPress sites, contributing to 2.5

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