Study: Half Of The Top 100 Blogs Now Use WordPress

WordPress Blogging Platform

by FREDERIC LARDINOIS

The WordPress blogging platform– both in its hosted and self-hosted forms – has long been among the most popular platforms for personal and professional blogs (and it’s what we use here at TechCrunch, too). Looking at the top 100 blogs in Technorati’s index, a new study by website monitoring firm Pingdom found that 49% of the top 100 blogs now use WordPress. That’s up from 32% in 2009. No other platform even comes close.

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Typepad was still the second most popular platform in 2009, but now it has virtually disappeared from the rankings. Movable Type, which was still being used by 12 of top 100 blogs in 2009, is now down to 7. WordPress is now the technology of choice.

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WordPress.org is the community site for the WordPress blogging platform. This is the place to go for bloggers who need help or resources for their WordPress blog.

On June 17, 2010, WordPress 3.0 was released, including many significant improvements to the administrative backend of the site which move the publishing platform even further beyond a tool for blogging and closer to a fully-featured CMS.