Popularity of WordPress Is Clear! (TOP DESIGNS)
I just found this great post by Blog Design Studio. Titled “The 35 Best WordPress Design Websites“, this article is great for clients and observers interested in WordPress. Originally built as a blogging platform, “the popularity of WordPress is clear in its own way, however it becomes crystal clear when we see small businesses, professionals or even big corporations are giving preference to WordPress over other CMSes. WordPress as a CMS has evolved and is used to build beautiful and professional websites. Lets check out the following 35 websites that are powered by WordPress, BuddyPress, WordPress MU and aren’t used just as blog.” (BDS)
Here are the 35 designs with write ups done by Blog Design Studio. though I don’t particularly agree with the order, the fact that WordPress has got what it takes to take on the big boys…is clear! Here are a just a few. Check out the rest here.
WSJ Magazine
Wall Street Journal is one of the most reputed media houses and they’ve selected WordPress as CMS for their website. WSJ’s skin is pretty neat and is a wonderful example of magazine theme applied on WordPress to achieve this result. The site is heavily customized to give it the look of an online magazine.
Kodingen
Kodingen is a cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, database administration program, and collaboration platform. It includes web-based access to file systems and web-based FTP and SVN. This whole application has been developed as a BuddyPress plugin. It’s a fantastic presentation of what can be achieved by combining power of WordPress, Programming and Design.
DinDins Foods
DinDins Food is a New York city based company that produces organic toddler food in Manhattan. DinDins uses WordPress and Shopp plugin to power this e-commerce portal. The site wears a fresh design and goes with the theme of “Green”.
Justin Guarini
Justin Guarini is American Idol season one runner up who is also TV Guide Network’s resident hosts. In addition to seeing him on the red carpet for TV Guide during Award Season covering The Oscars, The Grammys, The Emmys and more, Justin also hosts their movie premiere and junket specials. The site is powered by WordPress, it features blog, the website and a forum – we would have loved it even more if it used bbPress to power the forums, but then we can’t take the credit away from this nicely designed website running on WordPress.
18. Kim Kardashian
Kim Kardashian got popular after the launch of E! Entertainment reality series “Keeping up with the Kardashians.” Kim also banked on the controversy created with the launch of her sex tape with Ray J, a famous singer in America. Even Kim’s beauty got spellbound with WordPress’s features and this amazing website design.
Atlantic Southeast Airlines
Atlantic Southeast Airlines, Inc. was founded in 1979 in Atlanta, Ga., by three determined entrepreneurs who dreamed of safely connecting small communities to the Atlanta metropolis. Atlantic Southeast Airlines features and nice and clean looking website design that is powered by WordPress and is an example of the few airline companies using WordPress to power their website.
UPS Racing
UPS Racing website is powered by a completely customized WordPress theme that features behind the scenes video, photo galleries, blog posts, twitter updates, games, and promotions for the team. The site also features a custom administration module that allow editors to update promotional content on nearly every page, making it a great example of showcasing the power of WordPress.
Kimberly Caldwell
Kimberly Caldwell is an american singer who came 7th in American Idol’s second season. She currently hosts various shows on Tv Guide Network. The celebrity decided to use WordPress to power their website that will also feature her debut album which is currently work in progress.
The Ford Story
The Ford Story is a website powered by WordPress integrated with various social media websites. The focus of the website is to connect with the customers and be open about the happenings around the ford cars & trucks. Ford is a fortune 500 company and they’ve used WordPress as CMS for this website and it means a lot for WordPress. The Ford Story’s website design is one of my favorites as it’s a blend of great colors and uses javascripts to add various effects on the webpage.
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Joshua ‘Red’ Russak is the founder of First Time Online™. Now known by many as “Red”, Joshua continues to grow his knowledge in WordPress and hopes to continue spreading the word that “your first time online, doesn’t have to hurt!”
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I truly really like the web template that that you’re using, is it custom designed?
William, thank you for the nice comment. I built this out custom, though I’m about to re-design and go for a premium-theme. If I’m going to run a business that promotes the use of these ‘premium themes’, then I myself feel it’s necessary to run my own website on one as well. Plus, it will be more efficient when future WordPress updates come out as the theme itself will have it’s own updates to match vs me having to manually install the custom scripts/code.
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