{"id":3392,"date":"2012-03-31T22:54:59","date_gmt":"2012-03-31T09:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordcamp.org.nz\/?p=3392"},"modified":"2012-03-31T22:54:59","modified_gmt":"2012-03-31T09:54:59","slug":"wordpress-by-the-numbers-alex-shiels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzealand.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wordpress-by-the-numbers-alex-shiels\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress By The Numbers &#8211; Alex Shiels"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3090\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3090\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3090\" title=\"Alex-Shiels\" src=\"http:\/\/wordcamp.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Alex-Shiels-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Alex Shiels \u2013 Akismet \u2013 Au\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3090\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alex Shiels \u2013 Akismet \u2013 Au<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Alex is Reverse Engineer at Automattic where he has worked since \u00a02007 as lead at <a title=\"Akismet\" href=\"http:\/\/akismet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Akismet<\/a>\u00a0&#8220;. Based in Melbourne, Alex will give us a bit of a showcase on WordPress itself\u00a0such as\u00a0general stats about global WordPress usage, the number of sites running WP, version distribution, where they&#8217;re hosted, that sort of thing.*<\/p>\n<p>He will also explain briefly how we&#8217;re collecting that info, and what we&#8217;d like to do next.\u00a0(*As much as he is allowed to say that is.)<\/p>\n<p>If you use WordPress you probably use Akismet.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Akismet filters out your comment\u00a0and track-back spam for you, so you\u00a0can focus on more important things.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Previously we&#8217;ve asked Alex to talk about Akismet but for sensible reasons there is not much he is allowed to say although we do know &#8220;24,322,830 spams got stopped today so clearly the team is very busy.<\/p>\n<p>Blog:\u00a0<a title=\"Flight Path\" href=\"http:\/\/flightpath.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Flight Path<\/a><br \/>\nAutomattic\u2019s first Australian, first Alex, and first vegetarian. Melbourne born and raised, Alex writes code and fights crime. He has two inventive young children, and roasts his own coffee.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex is Reverse Engineer at Automattic where he has worked since \u00a02007 as lead at Akismet\u00a0&#8220;. Based in Melbourne, Alex will give us a bit of a showcase on WordPress itself\u00a0such as\u00a0general stats about global WordPress usage, the number of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newzealand.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wordpress-by-the-numbers-alex-shiels\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WordPress By The Numbers &#8211; Alex Shiels<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1262775,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6893],"tags":[26222,418478,26289,14,5553],"class_list":["post-3392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-6893","tag-auckland","tag-speakers","tag-wordcampnz","tag-wordpress","tag-wordpress-community"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gALf-SI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzealand.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzealand.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzealand.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzealand.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1262775"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzealand.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newzealand.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzealand.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzealand.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzealand.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}