[New post] 2013: A Year in Review

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Krista posted: "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 ne" Respond to this post by replying above this line New post on WordPress.com News 2013: A Year in Review by Krista 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. 0 comments since you've been on this page. 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: Bromley Default Design Custom Design Expound Default Design Custom Design Massive Press Default Design Custom Design Twenty Fourteen Default Design Custom Design 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. Daily Prompts 33,315 Responses Most popular prompt: "A -- Z" Weekly Writing Challenges 4,008 Responses Most popular writing challenge: Haiku Catchoo! 42,350 responses to our Weekly Photo Challenges 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. A beautiful makeover The WordPress dashboard got a facelift in 2013, which included awesome improvements to the design on both desktop and mobile devices. Improved security 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. A whole new Simplenote We made keeping track of your thoughts, your inspiration, and your life easier, with a brand-new Simplenote for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Write with Markdown We made it easier to compose semantic content by launching Markdown across WordPress.com. Fighting censorship We're actively protecting your rights as bloggers -- we filed two lawsuits geared to squashing frivolous DMCA claims. Cloudup joins Automattic We welcomed Cloudup to the Automattic family. We hired 101 Automatticians 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 Comment    See all comments    Like Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from WordPress.com News. Change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2014/01/06/2013-review/ Thanks for flying with WordPress.com