What Can WordPress Do For You?

WordPress is an open source CMS, and is the most popular that is in use today. It was released on May 27, 2003 by Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little. There are currently 69,764,179 WordPress sites around the world. Over 17% of the websites in the world run on WordPress and use a customized WordPress framework. Also, over 19.5% of the top 10 million websites use WordPress.

How do we access WordPress?

Some of the biggest sites on the web that use WordPress are CNN, The New York Times, Forbes, TechCrunch, Reuters, and eBay. Out of the top 100 technorati blogs, 52% of them run on WordPress. There is no competition when it comes to any other CMS coming close to matching this figure.

WordPress 3.6 “Oscar” was released August 1, 2013. It is named “Oscar” in honor of the Jazz Pianist, Oscar Peterson. One of the new user features for WordPress 3.6 is the new default theme called “Twenty Thirteen”, along with improved revisions interface and media embedding, autosave stream, built-in HTML5 media player, and post locking.

Currently on WordPress 3.6 there are:

  • 26,722 available plugins
  • 1,998 available themes
  • 78,213,046 current theme downloads
  • 510,107,269 current plugin downloads

Innovise uses WordPress to build the majority of our sites. We would be happy to help your company with a new or revised website.

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