13,704,819 new blogs in 2013

That’s a 36% increase from 2012, during which you created 10 million new blogs.

489,281,136 posts in 2013

That’s 12 times the number of books in the Library of Congress!

That’s an average of 21 comments per second for the entire year.

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That’s almost 38,000 times the number of stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

You’ve written about thousands of topics in 2013. Here are the top ten:

You’ve created amazing customizations with the 77 new themes we launched this year. Check out some of these makeovers:

Over at The Daily Post, we encourage you to write as often as possible. You’ve blown us away every single day with your responses to our Daily Prompts, your thoughtful entries to our Weekly Writing Challenges, and the breathtaking photography you’ve shared on the Weekly Photo Challenges.

Most popular writing challenge: Haiku Catchoo!

Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, has had a great year as well, with lots of news and improvements.

The WordPress dashboard got a facelift in 2013, which included awesome improvements to the design on both desktop and mobile devices.

Security is important. With the addition of two-factor authentication, your WordPress.com account is more secure than ever.

WordPress.com is your digital hub on the internet with sharing to Path, Google+, and Facebook embeds on your site, as well as the ability to save to Pocket and send to Readmill.