WordCamp 2013 San Francisco: here are the highlights regarding WordPress.

During this event leads by WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg, further the fact that, WordPress 3.7 will be released in October and 3.8 will be out in December 2013, Connectikpeople has also nabbed some important figures regarding Wordpress.

Connectikpeople has discovered that:

·        WordPress is now powering 18.9 % of the web, up 2.2 % points since last year.

·        New WordPress.org website and developer.wordpress.org are announced,

·        A total of 98 % of people said they used WordPress on the web, with 31 per cent using the software on their iPad or iPhone, 30% on an Android phone, 18 per cent on an Android tablet and 12
% on a desktop app.

·        A total of 20 % of people use WordPress as both a blog and CMS, - 25 % last year.

·        People are still primarily using WordPress as a CMS at 69 %, compared to 68 % last year.

·        WordPress use as just a blog has dropped to 6 per cent, compared to 7 % last year. A total of 20 % of respondents said they used WordPress as both a blog and CMS, down from 25 per cent last year.

·        7% of respondents use WordPress as an application platform.

We discovered that, WordPress has been downloaded more than 46 million times, this means :  147,000 downloads each day.

A total of 336 themes were submitted to the WordPress theme directory, +2.3 % compared to last year.

9334 plugins were submitted, with 6758 added to the plugin directory. The directory now contains more than 26,000 plugins.

Finally He WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg said : ‘the post formats UI with the 10 icons at the top of the WordPress editor had not worked and would function better as a drag and drop feature that allowed multiple formats in the one blog post’’.