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Todd Tomlinson, Beginning Backdrop CMS, 10.1007/978-1-4842-1970-6_19

19. Creating a Blog Site

Todd Tomlinson

(1)Tigard, Oregon, USA

Blogs, blogs, and more blogs. According to Wikipedia, as of February 20, 2014 there were approximately 172 million blogs on Tumblr, 75.8 million blogs on Wordpress, and millions of other blogs on Blogger and other platforms like Backdrop. Conservatively, that’s a quarter of a billion web sites dedicated to blogging, or roughly 25% of all web sites on the internet ( http://internetlivestats.com ). When you couple the sheer number of blog sites with the average number of blog posts published per day (3 million, according to Technorati), the numbers are staggering. A Backdrop site builder could stay ...

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