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title: "WordPress Tip: WordPress 2.7 and Beyond – Keynote by Matt Mullenweg at Wordcamp Utah 2008"
date: 2008-09-27
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# WordPress Tip: WordPress 2.7 and Beyond – Keynote by Matt Mullenweg at Wordcamp Utah 2008
### During some preliminary technical issues …

Jane says, "I can feel the nerdiness vibes increase …." And then checks her blog and sees that she just won another bloggy award.

Someone twitters that [he doesn't know](https://twitter.com/rickgalan/statuses/937213761) a single person at Wordcamp. Guy next to me searches Twitter and finds his tweet. I follow him. Then Shannon points out that the guy who sent the tweet is sitting right next to me. Same table. Holy smokes.

Technical issues solved, Matt gets into his presentation.

### WordPress Stats

Matt mentioned some stats about WordPress:

- 2.8 million downloads of WordPress in 2007; 11 million downloads in 2008

- 11 new releases of WordPress.org this year

- Bloggers write the equivalent of "an English Wikipedia and a half" per month on WordPress.com blogs alone

- 230 million unique people viewed posts on WordPress.com blogs

- WordCamps have increased -- 14 so far this year, 4 happening today, 10 upcoming. In places all over the world: China, South Africa, Philippines.

- 5 billion spam comments caught by Akismet in the last year

There's a new type of spam sneaking through: (1) spam that is praising/flattering; (2) spam that copies your other comments, but changes the URL; (3) spam that comes from third-world spam sweat shops. Akismet's challenge is to identify spam even when bloggers approve the comments.