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With 2013 behind us, we can now take a look at our community’s incredible accomplishments over the past year. Here’s the year that was on WordPress.com.
13,704,819 new blogs in 2013
That’s a 36% increase from 2012, during which you created 10 million new blogs.
489,281,136 posts in 2013
That’s 12 times the number of books in the Library of Congress!
667,675,929 comments in 2013
That’s an average of 21 comments per second for the entire year.
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95,424,985 likes in 2013
That’s almost 38,000 times the number of stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
The most popular topics in 2013
You’ve written about thousands of topics in 2013. Here are the top ten:
- Photography 328,763 posts
- Video 289,493 posts
- Politics 282,893 posts
- Music 282,434 posts
- Life 280,219 posts
- News 259,493 posts
- Art 240,367 posts
- Love 168,657 posts
- Humor 155,213 posts
- Food 105,528 posts
Themes and customizations
You’ve created amazing customizations with the 77 new themes we launched this year. Check out some of these makeovers:
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Custom Design
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The Daily Post
Over at The Daily Post, we encourage you to write as often as possible. You’ve blown us away every single day with your responses to our Daily Prompts, your thoughtful entries to our Weekly Writing Challenges, and the breathtaking photography you’ve shared on the Weekly Photo Challenges.
33,315 Responses
Most popular prompt: “A — Z”
4,008 Responses
Most popular writing challenge: Haiku Catchoo!
Most popular photo challenge: Color
Automattic and WordPress.com highlights
Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, has had a great year as well, with lots of news and improvements.
The WordPress dashboard got a facelift in 2013, which included awesome improvements to the design on both desktop and mobile devices.
Security is important. With the addition of two-factor authentication, your WordPress.com account is more secure than ever.
Your digital hub
WordPress.com is your digital hub on the internet with sharing to Path, Google+, and Facebook embeds on your site, as well as the ability to save to Pocket and send to Readmill.
We made keeping track of your thoughts, your inspiration, and your life easier, with a brand-new Simplenote for iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
We made it easier to compose semantic content by launching Markdown across WordPress.com.
We’re actively protecting your rights as bloggers — we filed two lawsuits geared to squashing frivolous DMCA claims.
We welcomed Cloudup to the Automattic family.
Could you be next? We’re hiring.
Krista | January 6, 2014 at 9:01 pm | Tags: awesome, Blogs, comments, likes, posts, Stats, WordPress.com | Categories: Community, Hiring, New Features, Stats, Themes, WordPress.com | URL: http://wp.me/pf2B5-5VV |
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Hi Dr Thome,
New Year Greeting from the US. As someone of Seychellois descent and general East African background, I wanted to say thank you for the excellent job that you do in providing coverage of the East African region. I look forward to your quality posts and appreciate the time and effort you put into your work.
Regards,
Michael Sanders
Well thank you Michael for your compliments and THANK YOU for reading my blog. It is encouragement like yours’ which makes it all worth while.
Happy New Year to you too.
W.