WordPress’ adoption numbers are quite high with over 145 million downloads and powering 16.7% of the entire Web! As a cornerstone of the blogging and CMS world, it is natural that it must eventually meet head on with another online platform that has met meteoric success, Facebook.
The social media giant’s ubiquity is not particularly obscure, but when defined in hard numbers it accounts for 1 in 5 page views, is the most frequent individual search term, and has actually bridged generational divides with near parity in terms of use across groups. A robust number of plugins have emerged to enable WordPress developers and the users that visit their websites to leverage the interconnections and social data that are available through the network.
