December 11, 2024

15 Impressive and Beautiful Uses of WordPress

WordPress is no longer just used to power blogs. It has become the CMS of choice for many web designers. It’s always interesting to see how it’s flexibility provides web designers with the freedom to design sites with no limitations. Here are 15 beautiful web sites all powered by WordPress.

Creative Depart

Creative Depart

Big Spaceship

Big Spaceship

Ecoki

Ecoki

20 jours pour la retrouver par Kevin Polof

20 jours pour la retrouver par Kevin Polof

Search Inside Video

Search Inside Video

UGSMAG

UGSMAG

App Storm

App Storm

IconDock

IconDock

ANidea

ANidea

45royale

45royale

Alpha Multimedia Solutions

Alpha Multimedia Solutions

the Art of Catalin Bridinel

the Art of Catalin Bridinel

EightHourDay

EightHourDay

ESPIRA

ESPIRA

StopDesign

StopDesign

Henry Jones is a web developer, designer, and entrepreneur with over 14 years of experience. He is the founder of WDL and ThemeTrust.

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57 Comments

  1. hash Reply

    These are great looking sites using WordPress, thanks for putting them up. What’s missing though is a sentence on what you think is so special/unique about each one.

  2. Ryan Bickett Reply

    I love to see examples of WordPress being used as a complete CMS versus just a blog engine. This is a great list. I am bookmarking this as inspiration!

    Thanks for the post!

  3. Kelly D Reply

    Just came across your post. I found it informative for me and I’m sure many others. I did also have small trouble subscribing to the blog but figured it out; I’m still a 2-finger typist 🙂 . Thank you and keep your blogging spirit going strong.

  4. Louise Reply

    Hi 🙂

    Great assemblage of WP execution!
    I’d love to know whether “Creative Depart” realy is built on WP and what Theme they are using … thanks for letting me know 😉

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  6. Freedom Blue Reply

    A great selection of beautifully designed websites! I am using WordPress as CMS too. The only thing I wished would be better is the menu. You always have to do a ‘detour’ to get the pages you want in the menu. Pagemash is a useful plugin this regard, but something like it should be built in WordPress by default.

  7. rjbrill Reply

    Having been using WordPress for the last few years I would say it is one of the most useful and easiest CMS’ for designers, developers and users to create, develop and maintain websites and these sites are all great examples of its power, good article.

  8. Learn Master Guitar Reply

    I am wondering whether upgrading to WP 3.0 will affect my current theme? I heard that a couple plug-ins have problems after upgrading, but might the upgrade break themes too? Does anybody have information on that? Thanks for answering!

  9. liudic Reply

    Awesome list. This was the original post that inspired us to create our social network on barcelona-underground. Alot more forums, blogs and videos were watched and read after this post but just wanted to say thanks for the original inspiration 🙂

    1. Fernando Reply

      Great idea Osman. btw how long have you been your wits up and running? good one for the audience. the best way to build traffic is to build up traffic by sharing and giving out other people more traffic.

  10. Jan Reply

    Looking at this gallery of sites, I always compare them mentally to early web design efforts or at least mine (which I remember the most and were pretty terrible). I noticed how sites migrated from having all the info laid out vertically to now horizontally (but no rolling off the page) placing blocks of different data next to each other. I’ve always been curious as to when this method of laying out data first began, whether this method has an actual name, where it may have of originated from and what sort of fields you need to read up on concerning page layout/placing data appropriately on the page.

  11. Fernando Reply

    Simply great post with a lot of useful and impressive WordPress knowledge. i was just searching for what are the search results for “how to build you own WordPress website” this site came up on the first page. Thanks for the sharing. It’s the knowledge economy and people appreciate the fact that leaders share process and knowledge to educate the people who come you blog.

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