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WeLoveWP.com highlights great looking WordPress sites, and it’s powered by WordPress, too!
From time to time, someone will hear that I’m involved with WordPress, and ask me a few questions about it. Some people already have a WordPress-powered site (either self-hosted, or on wordpress.com), and some have never actually used it, but they’ve heard of it. Often, they just want me to show them a WordPress site, so they can see what it looks like. Occasionally, someone will ask whether any big companies or famous people use WordPress. And one thing I often hear is along the lines of, it just does weblogs, if I have a business site, I’d want to use something else, right?
But in reality, WordPress is an excellent tool for managing a business site. When I tell people this, they’ll often ask me for some examples of non-blog sites using WordPress.
So I end up searching for old bookmarks, looking through my feed archives, and checking the Codex until I find some suitable choices. Likewise, if someone just wants to see some examples of WP sites, I want to show them something that really stands out.
Now I’m finally going to document a really nice selection of sites that I can point them to for several examples, a sort of “Best of WordPress”. Some sites just look good. Some are examples of famous celebrities, companies, or organizations. Others showcase WP in a non-blog capacity. In no particular order, here is my list of Awesome WordPress Sites:
- Alex King’s Crowd Favorite not only has great design, but is a perfect example of using WordPress to power a business site.
- And Crowd Favorite, in turn, is responsible for All Things Digital, which is powered by WordPress-MU. Alex also has a great series of articles about building a customized WP site.
- ChickSpeak is another WordPress-MU site, with a focus on women’s issues. It’s structured more like a social network than a blog. There’s an article outlining ChickSpeak’s development that’s interesting, as well. via: photomatt
- If you grew up in the eighties like my wife and I, then you can remember when musician Thomas Dolby was blinding everybody with science.
- CNN’s Political Ticker blog is a WordPress.com VIP Hosting site.
- Robert Scoble’s Scobleizer blog is another WordPress.com VIP site. Scoble has been an icon in weblog circles for many years now, and is famous for his prolific output, as well as for being an author and a former Microsoft technical evangelist .
- Yodel Anecdotal is Yahoo’s corporate blog.
- delicious:days is a food blog that looks good enough to eat. Simply beautiful.
- NASA Ames Research Center is powered by WordPress. This group is responsible for many of NASA’s cutting-edge research projects.
- PlayStation.Blog is the official PlayStation blog from Sony U.S.
- Nancy Pelosi, the first female Speaker of the House, has a blog called The Gavel. WordPress is in ur guvrnment blogging ur lejislashun!
- Ford Motor Company’s Global Auto Shows site doesn’t look much like a blog, but it’s all wrapped up in WordPressian goodness.
- CSS Remix is a showcase of sites with
great design. And the site itself looks schweet. - welovewp.com highlights many WP-powered sites. Some are business-oriented, some are more standard blogs, but all of them have really great design. Oh, and of course, welovewp.com is powered by WordPress, as well.
Of course, the sites I’ve listed here are only the tip of the iceburg. There are tons of fantastic WordPress sites in the wild that deserve as much attention as these. Do you know of some? Post them here, and whenever somebody asks you about great WordPress sites, you can just give them a link to this post!
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110 Comments
If my blog looked half as good as all those listed. I’d be wealthy.
Sites are really awesome and interesting. I liked your sites very much, thank you for your post.
Wordpress rocks! It is by far the best blogging software on the planet. And you can’t beat free. Keep up the great work.
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yummy yummy! my favorite is deliciousdays.com. Nice content and design!
@Manele: hehe, i bookmarked half of these in delicious, too
I was searching Google for WordPress templates for my new blog and found your list. All sites you list use clean design – something that I like.
I took inspiration from deliciousdays.
Cheers
Respect! Wordpress best blog script!
Can someone direct me to a tutorial on tagclouds for wordpress?
googd post thanks!
It is a great list.crowdfavorite is great blog.
omg … you forgot http://sharebrain.info
cool sites. I have a new WordPress blog on http://www.cigarsetc.com/blog. Looking for user comments. Thanks.
they are some really nice looking sites. all sites should be cool and made with wordpress
Great list!!!
It for my bookmarks
Nice work!
great article, I’m used to drupal but recently need a simpler cms for other projects.
definitely will choose wordpress as cms
Only beatiful? Those are remarkable!
Mesajiniz icin tesekkurler bana cok faydali bir bilgi oldu saolun
Wow, this is a GREAT list of wordpress-powered sites!
I am still using blogger for my blogs, but now I am experiencing with wordpress and it looks good. Maybe that I change my engine for blogs.
My designer just completed this very cool site for me with Wordpress.
nice.. delicious days has to be like the top one.. simply beautiful. Its been a year man.. you gotta make a new list for 08. Thanks.
Nice collection of Quality sites powered by Wordpress.
Thanks, you nice post that helped me alot.
We launched both http://www.ReelEnglishCoach.com and http://www.EnstructCorp.com with Wordpress
Those are some pretty darn awesome sites. You should make a similar post to Drupal hosted sites and see which people like better.
Un tema muy interesante, lamentablemente no todos pueden tener las mismas opiniones.
Esto me hara investigar mas acerca del tema, lo que nunca esta demas.
Saludos
nos vemos.
Chau
I used to use traditional methods when building web sites but since I discovered wordpress, all I ever use is wordpress unless a client really does not want it. I have several sites that appear as normal websites but are WP powered and I think they are fantastic fun to work with. The USB gadget site is brilliant…time to shop for some new toys.
good design..thanks
“Dougal has put up a list of 14+ awesome WordPress-powered sites on his site.
So being curious, I went to check those 14+ sites and see which sites are using my plugins.
After checking them out, 4 sites out of 14+ sites are using my plugins and they are…”
nice list, thanks… good source of inspiration
Love theses sites! The themes are very varied, and I enjoyed looking around. Keep it up – great post!
It’s amazing to me what we can do with WordPress these days. Alex King did a great job on his site, hopefully the new 2.7 will bring us even more amazing power.
Alex did an amazing job with Crowd Favorite, it’s one of my favorites
CSS Remix looks really nice, I’m very impressed with that. The other ones you gave on your list are pretty good – longlive wordpress
Here is another online gallery for cms only sites done in wordpress.
http://www.bestcmswebsites.com
I have a list of 30+ such sites, some built by well known designers and companies but most built by local talents.
I have to say my favourite one is the delicious days blog. Too bad I’m not really good at designing and stuff.. but it’s nice to know that my choice in using wordpress for blogging can’t really go wrong judging by the blogs that are running it.
Alex King’s Crowd Favorite not only has great design, but is a perfect example of using WordPress to power a business site.I’m very impressed with that
nice share
Thanks for a great list.
Yodel Anecdotal now use ycorpblog dot com, after I read here about they using wordpress then I check the site, and I can not believe if they still use WordPress 2.3.3
Can WP themes be changed into Blogger themes? If so where should I go to get help?
Love the list. Some really great examples.
Wordpress becoming favorite blog CMS right now. There are a large wordpress plugin that make your blogging activity easier
Hey guys! I just launched my site last night. Its a completely custom theme which I will also release for download once I get all the kinks out of it.
Have a look around, tell me what you think!
http://blog.papacreative.com
Awesome.. Nice list..
Great list of sites it just makes you feel inferior when you see what can be done lol
some are good..some are poor..overall…good choice
Great list of Wordpress links. though I wasn’t able to reach crowdfavorite
Peter
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