Chris Castiglione Co-founder of Console.xyz. Adjunct Prof at Columbia University Business School.

30 Examples of Famous WordPress Sites

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WordPress is a content management system (CMS) that gives users an out-of-the-box publishing solution. In plain English? WordPress helps you make a blog really easily.  

Every WordPress site runs the same code behind the scenes (aka. the core). But on the front-end you can customize your site a million different ways with WordPress themes. You can even learn how to make your own custom themes from scratch.

Because millions of beginners are using WordPress, it’s associated with blogging for newbies. But, WordPress is way more than your best-friend’s cat blog. 

In fact, WordPress powers 33% of the Internet. That’s because both Fortune 500 Companies and basement bloggers want the same things: easy publishing, good SEO, and options for organizing content. The best blogs do this real well. Some of the top sites on the Internet are using WordPress VIP. This is the company’s enterprise CMS, for users who get regular, massive traffic and need ongoing support.

I want to show you 30 famous WordPress sites. Once you see the power, customization, and scalability of WordPress you’ll be inspired to create your own WordPress site immediately. Look, you may not be Beyonce (unless you are, then please leave a comment),  but you can share the same WordPress code used by Beyonce.

1. Beyonce

Beyonce's website runs on WordPress

Bey’s site runs on WordPress. So bow down, reader.

2. Facebook Newsroom

Facebook uses WordPress

One of the top sites on the Internet uses WordPress for their news and press statements.

3. TED

TED blog uses WordPress

The TED blog offers “Further reading on ideas worth spreading.”  You can’t help but think you can change the world after visiting.

4. BBC

BBC uses WordPressThe BBC, according to its website, is on a mission “To enrich people’s lives with programmes and services that inform, educate and entertain.”

5. The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company uses WordPress

 

The official home of the world’s most famous mouse.

6. USA Today

USA Today uses WordPress

 

“Latest world & breaking news”

7. Variety Magazine

Variety Magazine uses WordPress

 

Variety’s tagline is “The Business of Entertainment.”

8. Quartz

Quartz is built with WordPress

 

“News, videos, ideas, and obsessions from the new global economy”

9. Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight

 

Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight is built with WordPress

 

The site “uses statistical analysis — hard numbers — to tell compelling stories about politics, sports, science, economics and culture.” It’s journalism for math geeks.

10. Lifehack

Lifehack uses WordPress

 

Lifehack is a site for “Helps, Tips, and Guidance to improve all aspects of your life.”  Read this while brushing your teeth and listening to a podcast at 2X speed in the shower.

11. Black America Web

Black America Web is built with WordPress

 

This REACH media site “was formed in January 2003 to develop, acquire and partner in quality media and marketing opportunities targeting the African American community and lifestyles.”

12. Toyota (Brazil)

Toyota uses WordPress

 

The company that says “Let’s go places” uses WordPress for its Brazilian division.

13. New York Post

New York Post uses WordPress

 

“Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates”  

14. Perez Hilton

Perez Hilton is built with WordPress

 

This is a site for “Hollywood’s Hottest Celebrity Gossip.” If you’re too proud to grab a tabloid on the grocery line, you can get it all here, judgement-free.

15. Blog Maverick (Mark Cuban)

Blog Maverick uses WordPress

 

Blog Maverick is “The Mark Cuban Weblog,” a place where the NBA franchise owner, Shark Tank personality, and serial entrepreneur posts his ideas about business, politics, and life.

16. Official LinkedIn Blog

Official LinkedIn Blog is built with PHP and WordPress

 

This is the blog for the world’s most famous networking site.

17. VentureBeat

VentureBeat is built with WordPress

 

“Tech news that matters.”

18. Gigaom

Gigaom is built with WordPress

 

“The industry leader in emerging technology research”

19. Spotify

Spotify News uses WordPress

Spotify promises “Music for every moment.”

20. Forbes

Forbes uses WordPress

 

Forbes is a business magazine and now a sprawling online content company.

21. The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss

The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss uses WordPress

“Tim Ferriss’s 4-Hour Workweek and Lifestyle Design Blog” houses his writing as well as his popular podcast.

22. PEOPLE.com

PEOPLE.com uses WordPress

 

“Celebrity News, Exclusives, Photos and Videos”

23. Dow Jones

Dow Jones uses WordPress

“Business & Financial News, Analysis & Insight”

24. WIRED

WIRED uses WordPress

 

The famous tech news site started by Kevin Kelly runs on WordPress.

25. Mozilla

Mozilla uses WordPress

 

The Mozilla blog is a place to get “dispatches from the Internet frontier.”

26. Fortune

Fortune is built with PHP, HTML, CSS and of course WordPress

 

When you want to know what’s going on with your money, go to this WordPress VIP site.

27. TechCrunch

TechCrunch's Blog is built with WordPress

 

“The latest technology news and information on startups”

28. Boing Boing

Boing Boing is built with WordPress

 

Boing Boing is “a directory of mostly wonderful things.”

29. The Official Star Wars Blog

The Official Star Wars Blog is built with WordPress

 

Well wookie here. The blog for this classic film runs on WordPress.

30. Skype

Skype's blog was developed using WordPress.org

 

Topping off the list is the blog for the communication company Skype. Hopefully this site can tell me if I should look at my web cam or the person while on my next call.

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Chris Castiglione Co-founder of Console.xyz. Adjunct Prof at Columbia University Business School.