15 Impressive and Beautiful Uses of WordPress

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1. Paul Randall April 29, 2009 at 4:08 AM Reply

   Some great examples of what can be acheived in WordPress. Really inspirational.

2. Patternhead April 29, 2009 at 6:13 AM Reply

   Nice list. Like the look of Ugsmag and Icondock is amazing.

3. hash April 29, 2009 at 8:39 AM 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.

4. Adeline April 29, 2009 at 8:41 AM Reply

   The list of great looking WP sites just keeps growing 🙂

5. Yitzhak Benezra April 29, 2009 at 8:47 AM Reply

   Great. Thank you

6. Ryan Bickett April 29, 2009 at 9:21 AM 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!

7. The Masked Designer April 29, 2009 at 9:51 AM Reply

   Thanks for the post. I love to see what others are doing with WP.

   I’m surprised that Joshua Davis’ site isn’t listed. It is a great WP site with even better work.

   Z

8. stevegmag April 29, 2009 at 10:52 AM Reply

   Good Stuff. We’ve done some custom WP template work in the past. Always good to see others delivering good design implementations with WP.

9. Tim Smith April 29, 2009 at 2:37 PM Reply

   Wow!! Cool list! I didn’t know that so many sites are using WordPress!! That’s good WP rocks!

10. Mikael April 29, 2009 at 4:40 PM Reply

    These are great, thanks for posting them. Our website design studio also loves utilizing WP for sites.

11. Waz April 29, 2009 at 8:36 PM Reply

    Waz thinks: wordpress is for geeks, Joomla for nerds, and notepad2 for the experts!

12. Justin April 29, 2009 at 8:46 PM Reply

    way to be smarmy, Waz. You messed up your url in the comment box. notepad2 indeed.

13. Joares Miranda April 29, 2009 at 9:07 PM Reply

    My entire website was built in WP, if want: https://jmiranda.com.br

14. kamrul April 30, 2009 at 2:53 AM Reply

    Yes word press is a great way to publish websites. I am convinced.

15. Quakeboy May 4, 2009 at 6:22 AM Reply

    Why does wordpress needs to be credited for the designers capabiity.. kinda stupid title i say

16. Hiro May 4, 2009 at 9:56 AM Reply

    Very impressive samples.

17. Albert Pak May 12, 2009 at 10:11 AM Reply

    Very nice 🙂 I really like IconDock WP set up 🙂

18. olybop May 13, 2009 at 8:50 AM Reply

    Nice ! i’d like the IconDock WP theme too like Albert

19. Creamy CSS May 19, 2009 at 3:48 AM Reply

    Great collection! Really beautiful use of WP.

20. Anika May 29, 2009 at 8:23 AM Reply

    What a sexy blog, love the theme, what are you using?

21. Kelly D June 16, 2009 at 8:00 PM 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.

22. Rock Your Web June 19, 2009 at 11:49 PM Reply

    Nice article. Good job.

23. pordee July 2, 2009 at 11:26 PM Reply

    That was a nice read

24. joded July 3, 2009 at 1:52 AM Reply

    Nicely article

25. printedproof July 22, 2009 at 9:25 AM Reply

    Great collection! Love WordPress.

26. Andy Shaw July 22, 2009 at 9:57 AM Reply

    Every other CMS should bow in the presence of the master, that is WordPress!

27. Colin July 27, 2009 at 3:57 PM Reply

    What a fantastic array of design choice in these 15 templates. Professional web designers need to start shaking in their boots.

28. gebelik July 29, 2009 at 7:28 PM Reply

    i like this site. i added on my bookmark i thanks

29. manuel August 4, 2009 at 12:30 AM Reply

    great collection, thx

30. San Diego Web Design September 8, 2009 at 2:08 AM Reply

    Thanks for the very helpful collection of cheat sheets! Admiring the time and effort you put into your blog and the detailed information you offer!

31. organic seo September 14, 2009 at 7:50 AM Reply

    what would be cost for customized design. I need an unique design on wordpress theme.

32. Sam Relan September 18, 2009 at 3:09 AM Reply

    This is infact a great collection. I would like to recommend to take a look at CSSJockey’s portfolio as well. They have amazing creations as well. https://CSSJockey.com/portfolio I guess.

33. Svetainu kurimas October 19, 2009 at 10:29 AM Reply

    Wow this is useful. Thanks.

34. JunoWebDesign October 21, 2009 at 8:37 PM Reply

    Great designs.. makes me fell like we need a revamp!

35. Andy Fitzpatrick October 28, 2009 at 10:38 AM Reply

    Wonderful designs and inspires you to do more thanks for these

36. Andhrus October 28, 2009 at 1:33 PM Reply

    Very Nice design! look excellent! Thanks for sharing…

37. Vijendra Mishra November 2, 2009 at 12:49 AM Reply

    Nice Post these websites are awesome … now i decided that i’m gonna build my site on wordpress….

38. red January 13, 2010 at 7:43 PM Reply

    Very cool. WordPress is better than most CMS I’ve used.

39. Ben Blodgett February 11, 2010 at 5:12 PM Reply

    Ahh wordpress is fun, we recently redid our site with it and its awesome!

40. Louise February 15, 2010 at 8:07 AM 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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42. Sonu March 13, 2010 at 2:40 PM Reply

    Amazing List, WordPress is really great CMS … if you have wordpress you can think beyond boundaries (-:

43. Freedom Blue March 15, 2010 at 1:05 PM 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.

44. rjbrill May 1, 2010 at 3:43 AM 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.

45. Faith Simmons May 1, 2010 at 8:03 AM Reply

    WordPress is the best blogging platform ever. It is much better than Typepad and blogspot.,,.

46. Learn Master Guitar June 28, 2010 at 3:59 PM 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!

47. Phoebe Clarke August 12, 2010 at 1:51 PM Reply

    i have been into Copywriting lately and this stuff also requires some writing talent’`.

48. Alghero April 4, 2011 at 3:30 PM Reply

    I think Design-wise Ecoki is awesome, but all the list is noteworthy.
    Thank you for posting it, it’s a great inspiring list.

49. Makedo June 8, 2011 at 8:28 AM Reply

    Thanks, very interesting.

50. Jason September 7, 2011 at 8:47 PM Reply

    WordPress can do anything.

51. mike September 15, 2011 at 6:33 AM Reply

    this cms is more strong. you can do all that with wordpress. this is a first time i see that, now i want learn this cms ?

52. Web Design In India November 16, 2011 at 12:40 AM Reply

    excellent post…. i like list of designs…
    WordPress is best thing by which you do just about everything you would desire to do on the web. with the help of it you can make attractive web designs.

53. liudic March 2, 2012 at 11:07 PM 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 🙂

54. Osman April 25, 2012 at 8:50 PM Reply

    You might wanna add my site Moviesdig.com which is also made in wordpress and looks better than some of the above sites.

    1. Fernando April 24, 2013 at 4:16 PM 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.

55. Jan September 2, 2012 at 11:38 PM 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.

56. Fernando April 24, 2013 at 4:14 PM 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.