WordPress has come a long way since it first launched back in 2003. It’s now the most popular content management system and has become a dominant force online, now powering 28.9% of all websites with a 59.4% market share of all known CMS.
WordPress gets more monthly unique visitors than Amazon, and the same as Facebook. WordPress.com (and self-hosted WordPress websites running Jetpack) gets an average 22,000,000,000+ pageviews per month, and growing. – WordPress.com There are 1,323+ meetup groups for WordPress all over the world.
There are so many ways to make money from WordPress: as a plugin/theme developer, hosting company, maintenance service, SEO agency, web design freelancer, blogger and so much more. WordPress is not only used by bloggers, businesses, and publications, but also educational institutions, and even governments. According to Torque Mag, 25 percent of WordPress users make a full-time living off of the CMS.
Aside from the fact that the WordPress software is the most used CMS in the world with lots of practical, industry-agnostic applications people are compelled by the dynamic and global community of WordPress users jiving off each other to learn and grow at various WordPress events. WordCamps are attended by people ranging from blogging newbies to professional WordPress developers and consultants, and usually combine scheduled programming with unconference sessions and other activities. More WordPress Stats and Facts can be found here.
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