For those interested in monitoring the progress of WordPress.com, Matt has posted the January statistics for WordPress.

Here are the statistics Matt has provided:

• 372,519 blogs were created.
• 393,836 new users joined.
• 4,592,097 file uploads.
• 2,710 gigabytes of new files.
• 553 terabytes of content transferred from our data centers.
• 8,771,891 comments.
• 6,528,657 logins.
• 1,073,421,738 pageviews on WordPress.com, and another 945,105,050 on self-hosted blogs (2,018,526,788 total across all WordPress blogs we track).
• 1,373,108 active blogs and 18,768,022 active posts where “active” means they got a human visitor.
• 1,295,531,829 words.

The progress is pretty amazing and is definitely well deserved.

Somehow I missed this yesterday, so I’m making up for it now with this post.  It looks like WordPress released their monthly wrap-up for October yesterday, complete with an announcement of their first billion-impression month!   That is a hard number to wrap your head around if you really think about it, making it a great accomplishment.

Here are the October statistics for WordPress.com by Matt:

• 323,786 blogs were created.
• 343,832 new users joined.
• 4,085,148 file uploads.
• 1995.86 gigabytes of new files.
• 531 terabytes of content transferred from our datacenters.
• 8,862,195 comments.
• 1,309,045 logins.
• 1,088,583,200 page views on WordPress.com, and another 738,282,634 on self-hosted blogs (1,826,865,834 total across all WordPress blogs we track).
• 1,418,933 active blogs and 16,599,550 active posts where “active” means they got a human visitor.
• 1,179,018,712 words.

Bonus statistic:

• 53,290 PollDaddy polls added this month — a 1250% increase from September!

It is good to see WordPress.com continue to grow and expand at such a rapid rate.

Here is another batch of fun and interesting WordPress-related posts that I thought many of you might enjoy:

• 10 Social WordPress Plugins – The WAHM Blog shares 10 different WordPress plugins that any social networking junkies may want to check out.
• 10 WordPress Statistics Tools – Mashable has collected a bunch of tools for collecting WordPress statistics.
• The Ethics of Premium WordPress Themes and Open Source – This is an interesting post that examines the ethics of using open source code in your theme and then selling it as a premium WordPress theme.