
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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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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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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