WORDPRESS IS AWESOMEBRAD WILLIAMS
Brad Williams
@williamsba
WORDPRESS IS POPULAR
Brad Williams
@williamsba
Top 1 Million Sites
68.1% of websites do not use a CMS
17.5% of all websites run WordPress
54.7% of all websites running a CMS are using WordPress
Source: http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_management/all
Source: http://en.wordpress.com/stats/
WORDPRESS IS POPULAR
Brad Williams
@williamsba
23,675 free plugins1,693 free themes
WordPress.org
WORDPRESS IS MOBILE
Brad Williams
@williamsba
WORDPRESS IS COMMUNITY
Brad Williams
@williamsba
67 WordCamps Worldwide in 201234 WordCamps in the USA
Total Attendees: 17,000+
Source: http://central.wordcamp.org/news/2013/02/04/wordcamps-in-2012/
WordCamps
WORDPRESS IS COMMUNITY
Brad Williams
@williamsba
400 WordPress Meetups Worldwide91,683 WordPress Meetup Members
Source: http://central.wordcamp.org/news/2013/02/04/wordcamps-in-2012/
WordPress Meetups
Philadelphia WordPress Meetup Group: 849http://www.meetup.com/Philadelphia-WordPress-Meetup-Group/
Philly burbs Meetup Group: 136http://www.meetup.com/philly-burbs-wordpress-meetup/
WORDPRESS IS FUN
Brad Williams
@williamsba
WHO IS BRAD?
Brad Williams
@williamsba
Brad WilliamsCo-Founder WebDevStudios.comCo-Author Professional WordPress
& Professional WordPress Plugin Development
Co-Organizer WordCamp PhillyCo-Host DradCast
WORDPRESS RESOURCES
Brad Williams
@williamsba
• Self Hosted• http://wordpress.org – WordPress open source project hub• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ - WordPress plugin directory• http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/ - WordPress themes directory
• Hosted• http://wordpress.com – WordPress hosted
• Community• http://central.wordcamp.org – WordCamp Central• http://wordpress.meetup.com – WordPress Meetups