WordPress 3.7 through 4.0 reached their EOL
As of today, December 1st, the WordPress security team will no longer provide security updates for WordPress 3.7 through 4.0. This move will basically end these version life.
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WordPress Page Builders – November 2022
WordPress page builders are becoming more and more popular every year. A new infographic from DisplayWP shows the size of the market and the adoption rate by WordPress websites.
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WordPress 5.9 ZIP File Size Skyrocketed by 25%
The largest file increase ever recorded in WordPress history, the total ZIP file add over 4MB. The size of the ZIP file passed 20MB for the first time.
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WordPress Infographic – September 2021
Last year, DisplayWP released its first WordPress infographic. This year, a fresh infographic is available with comparative statistics and a bunch of new data.
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WordPress Infographic – September 2020
New WordPress infographic with new stats revealed for the first time. Total releases, total downloads, supported versions ratio, release cycle efficiency, gender ratio in version naming and more.
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New Chart – Supported PHP Versions
Introducing the Supported PHP Versions chart. The chart displays PHP compatibility for each WordPress version, in other words the “minimum required” and the “latest tested” version of PHP.
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New Chart – WordPress Jazz Musicians
Introducing the WordPress Jazz Musicians chart. The chart displays the jazz musicians major WordPress versions were named for.
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New Chart – WordPress oEmbed Providers
Introducing the WordPress oEmbed Providers chart. The chart displays the total number of supported oEmbed providers for each WordPress version.
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New Chart – WordPress Translation Strings
Introducing the WordPress Translation Strings chart. The chart displays the total number of translation strings for each WordPress version.
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New Chart – WordPress Versions Support Period
Introducing the WordPress Versions Support Period chart. The chart displays the support period (in days), the time between the release date and the end-of-life date.
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New Chart – WordPress Versions Market Share
Introducing the WordPress Versions Market Share chart. The chart displays the market share (in %) for each WordPress version of all the active WordPress websites.
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New Chart – Closed Trac Tickets
Introducing the Closed WordPress Trac Tickets chart. Historical chart displaying the total number of Trac tickets for each major WordPress version.
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WordPress Upgrades Minimum Required PHP version to 7.2
WordPress finally dropped support for PHP 5.x. As of yesterday, the minimum required PHP to run WordPress is PHP 7.2.
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Proposal to Upgrade the Minimum Requirements
A long awaited proposal was raised by Gary Pendergast to upgrade the WordPress Minimum Requirements.
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WordPress Market Share is now 30%
W3Techs reports that WordPress has reached 30% usage in the content management systems market.
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Decline in usage of unsupported PHP versions
Six months ago, in July 2017, over 80% of all active WordPress sites used unsupported PHP versions. Today only 32% are using old versions. Huge improvement over a short time.
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WordPress Market Share is now 29%
Another milestone for WordPress, according to W3Techs historical trends in the usage of content management systems, WordPress passed the 29% market share.
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MariaDB Penetrates the WordPress World
WordPress originally developed using MySQL databases but currently over 5% of all active installs are using MariaDB. An increase of 25% since the beginning of the year.
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SWFUpload to be Removed from WordPress
WordPress 4.9 will remove the SWFUpload open-source library from core. Will that affect the total amount of External Libraries? surprisingly not!
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New Chart – WordPress Local Translations
Introducing the WordPress Local Translations chart. Historical chart displaying the total amount of locals for each major WordPress versions.
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New Chart – WordPress Monthly Releases
Introducing the WordPress Monthly Releases chart. Historical chart displaying the total amount of major WordPress versions released each month.
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New Chart – WordPress Yearly Releases
Introducing the WordPress Yearly Releases chart. Historical chart displaying the total amount of major WordPress versions released each year.
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New Chart – WordPress File Size
Introducing the WordPress File Size chart. Historical chart displaying the ZIP file size in bytes for each major WordPress version.
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New Chart – Core WordPress Developers
Introducing the WordPress Core Developers chart. Historical chart displaying the total amount of core WordPress developers for each major WordPress version.
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New Chart – Minimum MySQL Version
Introducing the Minimum MySQL Version chart. Historical chart displaying the minimum MySQL version required to run each major WordPress version.
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New Chart – Total External Libraries
Introducing the Total External Libraries chart. Historical chart displaying the total amount of external libraries used by each major WordPress version.
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New Chart – WordPress Download Counter
Introducing the WordPress Download Counter chart. Historical chart displaying the total amount of download for each WordPress branch, including both major and minor versions.
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New Chart – WordPress Contributors
Introducing the WordPress Contributors chart. Historical chart displaying the total amount of WordPress contributors for each major WordPress version.
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New Chart – Total Minor Versions
Introducing the Total Minor Versions chart. Historical chart displaying the amount of minor versions for each major WordPress version.
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New Chart – Minimum PHP Version
Introducing the Minimum PHP Version chart. Historical chart displaying the minimum PHP version required to run each major WordPress version.
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New Chart – WordPress Versions Lifespan
Introducing our first auto-generated chart – WordPress Versions Lifespan. Historical chart displaying lifespan in days for each and every WordPress version.
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New and Unique WordPress Chart Every 48 Hours
Over the span of the next three weeks, DisplayWP will introduce a new chart every 48 hours, containing never-before-seen and unique WordPress stats.
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WordPress Market Share is now 28%
Today, according to W3Techs historical trends in the usage of content management systems, WordPress passed the 28% market share.
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WordPress Market Share is now 27%
According to W3Techs historical trends in the usage of content management systems, today WordPress passed the 27% market share.
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Ending the support of PHP 5.5
Next week, on July 10th, the support of PHP 5.5 will end, this means that next week 80% of all the active WordPress websites will use unsupported PHP versions.
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Welcome To DisplayWP
Introducing DisplayWP.com – a new website dedicated to display WordPress stats in a new beautiful way.
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