WordPress Foundation

The WordPress Foundation is a nonprofit organization that supports the WordPress open-source project and related open-source software initiatives.

• 🏠 Website
  • wordpressfoundation.org #970,274
• 🏤 Headquarters
  • San Francisco, California, United States
• 🗓️ Founded
  • January 2010 (16 years ago)

⚡ Technologies

We track 4 technologies owned or developed by WordPress Foundation that are used across the web.

#	Technology	Reach The percentage of websites using the technology out of the total number of sites analyzed.
1	WordPress A widely used open-source content management system built on PHP and MySQL. FreeOpen source	37%
2	bbPress A free plugin that adds forum functionality to WordPress websites. FreeOpen source	0.1%
3	BuddyPress An open-source community plugin for WordPress that adds social networking features such as user profiles, groups, activity streams, and notifications. FreeOpen source	0.06%
4	Performance Lab A WordPress plugin that allows you to test new performance features introduced by the official WordPress Performance Team. FreeOpen source	0.06%

🗃️ About This Data

• We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
• Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
• This report is based on the analysis of 3,603,958 websites.
• Statistics were last calculated on August 3, 2026.
• For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.