WordPress is currently the most popular blogging platform in the world with its newest version at over 11 Million downloads already. This mature, robust and secure platform has gained the respect of business people worldwide with a large number of popular, high profile websites entrusting this system to deliver their services and maintain their image online.
Though many of us use WordPress just for blogging, it offers us much more than that and can be extended and upgraded to suit and accomplish almost any goal you have online. So to help you get the picture and also gain some insight and/or inspiration, I’ve decided to share some already popular, and not so popular but beautiful, sites that are enjoying success with WordPress as the backbone of their business online.
Most of these sites use WordPress to serve their blog’s content as well as a content management system to efficiently manipulate their site’s design, structure and content.
So, here’s the list:
3. TechCrunch
4. ProBlogger
5. CSS Remix
6. Phone.com
8. Wall Street Journal Online Magazine
11. Department of Environmental Sciences
13. Blu Homes
14. eBay Ink Blog
15. Mashable
17. The Mozilla Blog
18. Flickr’s Blog
Discussion
That’s it. Hope you found some inspiration to push your WordPress site / blog to the limits.
Are there any other popular sites that you’re aware of that use WordPress as their CMS? Please let us know in the comments below.
While I expected ProBlogger to use WordPress a couple of the others I would never have guessed.
Thanks for reading Thomas
Wow I never knew such well known blogs use WordPress, it just goes to show you how useful it is for maintaining and updating your blog. It makes it so much easier to manage content and manage comments using WordPress and each one looks different which shows you all the different themes WordPress can have.
Hey Bidet,
I completely agree. WordPress is powerful enough for some the most complex and high demand sites and more users should try to take advantage of its capabilities.
Cool! Did not know they all used WordPress…
Thanks for commenting Ben
awesome list, very inspiring. Did you search for and find these on your own or is there a source link I can go to check out others?
Thanks for reading Kirk
I didn’t compile the list from one source but from various locations on the web. What I mainly look for are WordPress specific components in the sites’ source code view. For example, “wp-content” and other elements; these usually indicate that wordpress is in the back-end.
Wow, those are some pretty big names there Sam. A testimony to the quality of the WordPress platform that these folks would opt to use WordPress instead of paying someone to put something together.
Indeed Colleen. WordPress has saved thousands of dollars for many people by allowing them to quickly and easily launch a professional online presence without the need to learn a lot of technical stuff and hiring developers. Plus, developers can still earn good money by creating the themes.
“Plus, developers can still earn good money by creating the themes.”
And of course, there is a whole other arena of folks employed to modify themes,
Wow, it comes as a shocker to me, to find out that some of those really famous and well known websites are running wordpress! Just goes to show you, how fantastic of a blog publishing software wordpress really is! And by the way, that number 11 million is staggering for sure!
Till then,
Jean
From the lists above, CNN is my favorite
I like Network Solutions, thanks for list.
I must agree all of them are beautiful.
Wow, never would have guessed. I guess a lot of people keep their blogs pretty simple so I would have never guessed these “big shots” use WP, I am now glad I do
Great list…thanks