Happy Birthday to us, happy birthday to us! Happy Birthday dear WPCandy, happy birthday to us! And many moreeeeee…….
It’s been a year since WPCandy was launched, and it’s been a great year at that. I’m pretty proud and excited that WPCandy has grown to where it is now. Let’s see what’s happened at WPCandy in the past year!
Some big stuff we’ve released/launched:
- The WordPress Help Sheet
- The Advanced WordPress Help Sheet
- The WordPress Template Hierarchy Diagram
- The WordPress Starter Theme Project
- Sample WordPress Content Collection
- WordPress Coda Clips Collection
- Unofficial International WordPress Day
- WPCandy v2 Redesign
- WPCandy v3 Redesign
- Launched WPCoder, our PSD-to-WordPress turnaround service
We’ve had a number of popular posts in the past few months. Here are some of the best:
- Automating My WordPress Workflow
- Five Ways to Familiarize Clients with WordPress
- Does WordPress Scare Your Clients?
- 10 Plugins to Better Improve the WordPress Admin
We’ve also seen an amazing surge in visitors since our whopping 2,681 uniques last October! Every single month since we launched we’ve seen a steady rise in traffic, topping 25,000 unique visitors in September. A few more notes on traffic…
- Alexa Rank: 139,183
- Technorati Rank: 5,311
- Delicious Bookmarks: 526
- Twitter Followers: 728
- RSS Subscribers: 2428
- 436,966 Total Hits
- 138,630 Unique Visitors
- Around 15,000 downloads on resources we’ve released
- We’ve also been mentioned and linked on sites such as Smashing Magazine, Noupe, Positive Space Blog, and Six Revisions.
- Gallery Sites: 159
- Total Published Posts: 366 (including this one)
I’d also like to thank kid genius, Dan Philibin. He’s been a huge help and great partner here at WPCandy. Even though he insisted I don’t mention him in this post, I did because he definitely deserves it! Most importantly, I’d like to thank YOU! We couldn’t have come this far without all our loyal WPCandy readers, subscribers, visitors, followers, etc.
To celebrate our first birthday, we’re holding a small contest for our readers. Leave us a congrats comment on this post and you’ll be entered to win a free turnaround from WPCoder! The winner will be picked at random and can give us one PSD to slice up into a theme at any time they want.
Anyway, it’s been a blast thus far – and we’re just getting started! Look for another announcement at the end of this month. Cheers to another successful year!
~The WPCandy Team
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Posted October 1, 2008
Sir Ali said:
Woah man congrats!
on October 1, 2008 at 6:39 am
John Joubert said:
Nice one! I’m looking forward to another year of great WordPress info and resources!
on October 1, 2008 at 6:44 am
NaldzGraphics said:
Just wanna greet a happy birthday and best wishes!!!.congrats to all the success in here;)more power and keep up the good work!!!!
Greetings from naldzgraphics.com
on October 1, 2008 at 6:48 am
Furkan said:
Oow good years. I’m following on RSS daily.
Good blogging 
on October 1, 2008 at 6:50 am
Sumesh said:
Well, some amazing stats there – congratulations on getting links from SM, Noupe and Six Revisions (I saw the link to you only on SM, which I read regularly).
2k subscribers is certainly rewarding – I’m just wondering why uniques and page views are low. Must be because of the niche, and also the fact that you don’t write as much link/traffic bait as others.
Looking forward to more great stuff on WPCandy, as always…..
on October 1, 2008 at 7:02 am
Ivan said:
Happy birthday!
You are the best, keep going
on October 1, 2008 at 7:21 am
Toni said:
Happy Happy!
on October 1, 2008 at 7:37 am
Matt Pippen said:
Congrats! It’s amazing to see how much of an influence the WordPress CMS makes.
on October 1, 2008 at 7:37 am
Vitaly Friedman said:
Congratulations, guys! Happy birthday
on October 1, 2008 at 8:05 am
Håkan Liljeqvist said:
Congrats from me in Sweden! You rock!
on October 1, 2008 at 8:11 am
Brian said:
Wow, I’ve been following WP Candy for the past 11 months now – and you have all come up with some truly incredible work. Great job, good work, and cheers to another successful year!
on October 1, 2008 at 8:48 am
K-IntheHouse said:
You have been doing an excellent job since the beginning and I regularly turn to your site for info when I am working on my WordPress projects. Coincidentally, hackwordpress.com, another resource I love are also celebrating their birthday today. Congratulations!
on October 1, 2008 at 9:12 am
Michael said:
Congratulations WPCandy! Happy Birthday and the best wishes for the future.
on October 1, 2008 at 9:39 am
nicolas said:
Happy birthday !
I am looking forward to wish you the next one as well.
on October 1, 2008 at 9:44 am
Nouman Saleem said:
I remember the days when it was WPCandy and WPDesigner up on my Netvibes homepage, then of course we all know what happened but luckily you guys stayed through and even upgraded your site providing the whole community with amazing projects and posts.
Thanks so much
on October 1, 2008 at 9:51 am
Andy Sowards said:
That IS a nice cake
Congrats and happy b-day!!!
on October 1, 2008 at 9:56 am
Sonny Gill said:
Nice cake
Congrats to your anny and many more!
on October 1, 2008 at 10:01 am
Ben Debnam said:
Happy Birthday Guys!
on October 1, 2008 at 12:13 pm
Thássius V' said:
Congrats Mike! Congrats Dan!
on October 1, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Keith Dsouza said:
Wish you a happy birthday and looking forward to more good things in the future.
on October 1, 2008 at 2:02 pm
Jeremy Newton said:
Congrats on having such a great year. You’ve helped me and many others at with wordpress and you are a greatly appreciated part of the wordpress community. Keep on trucking for many more years.
~Jeremy Newton
on October 1, 2008 at 3:18 pm
Ryan Johnston said:
Happy Birthday WPCandy! Love this website, I go here first, before all other sites for keeping up with the wordpress community and finding out a solution to a wordpress issue. Keep up the great work. You guys are doing great things for the community!
Can’t wait for next year’s anniversary!
Cheers!
on October 1, 2008 at 3:33 pm
Michael Cromarty said:
wow a whole year now mike, its great to see how much wpcandy has grown, I so regret leaving haha
on October 1, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Michael Castilla said:
Thanks for the warm wishes everyone! It’s been a good year, thanks to you guys. Cheers!
on October 1, 2008 at 5:42 pm
EmmaB said:
Happy Birthday WPCandy! You have grown very successful over the year since your launch and I am very happy for you! Warmest wishes!
on October 1, 2008 at 7:22 pm
Cosmo Kramer said:
Happy, Happy Birthday from all of us to you. We are glad it is your Birthday so we can party to…
Thanks for being one the best places for wordpress related news.
on October 1, 2008 at 8:44 pm
Daniel Brusilovsky said:
Big congrats to you guys! I am a big fan of WPCandy! Keep up the good work
on October 1, 2008 at 11:14 pm
Hafiz Rahman said:
Congratulations guys! Keep it up!
on October 2, 2008 at 5:57 am
Max said:
Keep up the good work!
on October 2, 2008 at 7:12 am
Muhammad Haris said:
I love the WordPress help sheets built by WPCandy.. They are the best.
Congratulations on WPCandy and WordPress success. I wish Good luck to both of them and more success in the world of blogosphere.
Thanks a lot!
on October 2, 2008 at 7:12 am
Giselle said:
you’ll be entered to win a free turnaround from WPCoder! The winner will be picked at random and can give us one PSD to slice up into a theme at any time they want.
lmao so what do you win? anyhowww who cares, that’s cute a whole year. i’m proud of you <33
on October 2, 2008 at 7:50 am
illtemper said:
A year already?! Damn time flies (when your having fun : )
on October 2, 2008 at 9:20 am
Dainis Graveris said:
Congratulations, friends! Cheers, to the next great year!
on October 2, 2008 at 3:06 pm
Zach Kollegger said:
Congrats, Mike, Dan. Good Luck with another year!
on October 2, 2008 at 5:02 pm
Stephen Chinnadorai said:
Happy Birthday guys! Here’s to another year of WPCandy!
on October 2, 2008 at 5:02 pm
Ptah Dunbar said:
Congrats on the first year! Hopefully I’ll have more time to pitch in and make next year an even bigger hit!
P.S. Looking forward to hanging out with the you and dan at next year’s FOWA Miami, that should be fun!
on October 2, 2008 at 5:58 pm
Brian said:
You guys ROCK!!!!
on October 2, 2008 at 9:18 pm
Jeff White said:
Happy B-Day WPCandy! Looking forward to another great year!
on October 2, 2008 at 9:31 pm
Artur Kim said:
Happy Birthday WPCandy! Hey Michael, you already know that I’ve been following this blog since the day it launched and have seen it grow to what it is now. Keep up the good work and best of wishes for the coming year!
on October 3, 2008 at 5:17 am
Ryan McCue said:
Wow, only two days before mine!
Happy birthday WPCandy and congratulations to the entire team on their efforts.
on October 3, 2008 at 6:47 am
SE7EN said:
Happy birthday WPCandy! wow time flys so fast. I can’t believe it’s already a year.
There’re wp-this, wp-that but it’s rare to find quality site that last long like WPCandy.
I love help sheets, Template Hierarchy Diagram and starter theme.
on October 3, 2008 at 7:41 am
Darren Hoyt said:
Happy birthday, guys – keep up the good work.
on October 4, 2008 at 12:21 am
Nathan Barry said:
Congrats on the birthday!
I have enjoyed the resources on your site quite a lot!
on October 4, 2008 at 1:38 pm
CrazyTaxi said:
congradumalations! the wordpress starter theme is in heavy use here, and I am especially grateful for that.
on October 6, 2008 at 12:14 pm
Joel said:
Congrats guys! I have been reading wpcandy for about 1 month or two now, and I’m utterly impressed with you guys!
on October 6, 2008 at 10:24 pm
Brady Valentino said:
Congrats on one year Mike.
on October 8, 2008 at 7:55 pm
River Girl said:
Congrats on the 1 year anniversary – awesome site!!
on October 11, 2008 at 4:04 pm
barrycryan said:
wow congratulations. Im not just wrting this for the free wp turnaround but you guys have give me the tools and info to make a difference in my lie through the sites i have. thanks and hope you have another great year.
P.s when do you announce the winner : )
on October 12, 2008 at 10:24 am
Grant Friedman said:
Congrats Michael!
on October 14, 2008 at 6:39 am
Ryan Johnston said:
Who won the contest?
on October 14, 2008 at 12:42 pm