“Big Boys” On WordPress
There are tons of people using WordPress. And I mean tons. Just alone this month, over 8,811 WordPress.com users have signed up and over 8,648 WordPress.com blogs have been created. That’s not even counting self-hosted WordPress blogs/sites!
The majority of people using WordPress, are using it as a blog, but there are also a lot of other sites using WordPress for marketplaces, galleries, portfolios, and even contest systems.
Among the tons of WordPress powered sites, there are quite a few “big boys” who also use WordPress.
Big Companies
Yahoo’s corporate blog, Yodel Anecdotal, is powered by WordPress 2.3.2.
Southwest Airlines’ blog for employees and customers, Nuts about Southwest, is powered by WordPress 2.3.2.
PlayStation’s blog for the latest PlayStation news, PlayStation.Blog, is powered by WordPress.
Startups
Meebo’s blog for news and updates related to Meebo, meeblog, is powered by WordPress 2.2.3.
Flickr’s blog on photography is powered by WordPress.
Media Publishers
Rolling Stone’s blog for music news and gossip, Rock and Roll Day, is powered by WordPress 2.0.2.
CNN’s blog on the latest political news, Political Ticker, is powered by WordPress.
The New York Times publishes over 50 WordPress powered blogs on subjects from traveling to soccer to television.
This is just a sample of some “big boys” on WordPress. There are probably a kagillion others that I don’t even know about! Oh and if you’re curious to know more WordPress.com stats, click here or more “big boys” using WordPress, click here.
Michael Martine
Posted on January 22nd, 2008 at 8:58 pm
Michael, thanks for this list. Helpful in convincing clients that WordPress is a good platform for a business blog, rather than TypePad.
Michael Castilla
Posted on January 22nd, 2008 at 9:47 pm
@Michael: No problem! And that’s a very good use of this list.
I think the reason big companies and big clients look down on WordPress is because it’s free and open source.
Thássius V.
Posted on January 22nd, 2008 at 11:20 pm
Blogs from the French newspaper Le Monde use WordPress Mu. Here in Brazil, blogs from G1, made by the biggest Brazilian medium company, also use Mu.
Darren Hoyt
Posted on January 22nd, 2008 at 11:58 pm
Don’t forget Matt’s monster list of famous WP blogs.
Michael Castilla
Posted on January 23rd, 2008 at 9:55 am
@Thassius: Sweet. I might start using it! Not sure if it’s worth it though.
@Darren: Oh wow, that’s a huge list! Very nice, thanks for sharing.
Mike Smith
Posted on January 24th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
Great list here. Definitely is some great leverage when discussing the CMS of choice with clients. Thanks for the list and also, thanks Darren for the link. Both pages are bookmarked for future client reference.
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Posted on January 28th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
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Web Design
Posted on February 2nd, 2008 at 9:11 pm
Thanks for the great info!
Jim Mirkalami
Posted on February 6th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
I have been a frequent visitor of this blog for some time now, so I thought it would be a good idea to leave you with my thanks.
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Built From Skratch
Posted on February 14th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
Interesting read. Great post
Built From Skratch
Posted on February 14th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
That was pretty interesting. Thanks for sharing!
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Doug Steele
Posted on February 17th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
Interesting. There are some good ideass presented here. I need to do spend some time reading more about these topics.
Built From Skratch
Posted on February 18th, 2008 at 7:25 am
Just wanted to say hello and great blog!
Jim Bright
Posted on February 18th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
Greetings, I am the Buckeye and new to blogging, just wanted to say HI.
It may be awhile before I can contribute meaningfully to the site.
Kanye West Glow in the Dark Tour
Posted on February 18th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
Great blog!
Thássius V.
Posted on February 20th, 2008 at 1:20 am
@Michael Castilla: I tried to use Mu, but couldn’t put up with it. I prefer to have a lot of different WP installations rather than just one that doesn’t work as good as expected.
Joni Mueller
Posted on February 20th, 2008 at 11:17 am
I am pretty sure that at one time, http://www.woot.com .. its woot blog was using WP, because I remember peeking at the source code. But now I’m not sure they haven’t switched to something else.
Chicago Plumber
Posted on February 25th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
Interesting. There are some good ideass presented here. I need to do spend some time reading more about these topics.
iphone
Posted on March 12th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
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Kashin Torwalds
Posted on March 16th, 2008 at 7:27 am
That is some useful peice of information. I would like to link to this page from my blog. I hope there isn’t a problem.
Thanks.
Michael Castilla
Posted on March 16th, 2008 at 9:38 am
@Kashin - Yeah sure go ahead.
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Posted on March 25th, 2008 at 12:40 am
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Posted on March 26th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
good list, thanks.
Rachael
Posted on April 1st, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Thanks for the information…I am looking to open my own business within the next few months. Good luck with everything!
zinni
Posted on April 3rd, 2008 at 11:07 pm
What I really find interesting is the non-blogs that are being powered by wordpress. The most interesting in my opinion are the flash sites that use wordpress to pass data flash either with php or through rss. Using wordpress in this manner can be a really economical way to develop Flash advanced flash websites without needed to develop a back end system as well.
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Posted on April 20th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
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Posted on April 23rd, 2008 at 7:42 am
Those are some nice blog links. I must say that the New York Times ones are my favourite. It seems as if everyone is in the blogosphere now and that is a great thing.
PSP PAD
Posted on April 25th, 2008 at 11:50 am
Great post …thank you for providing the list
Jewels
Posted on May 1st, 2008 at 12:14 pm
I had a hell of time convincing our consultant that anything that’s not PAID FOR could possibly be any good for a serious, corporate blog. I never realize how stuck some IT guys are in the open source world.
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Posted on May 1st, 2008 at 6:13 pm
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Greg Roy
Posted on May 5th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
Thanks for the impressive list. Maybe this’ll prove to the rest of corporate America that open source is the way to go… but there’s still a long way we can come on that.
muhabbet
Posted on May 13th, 2008 at 5:32 am
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Raj
Posted on May 19th, 2008 at 1:00 am
Thanx 4 the list. I love Wordpress and using it for all my blogs
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Posted on May 19th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Isn’t this just why we hate paypal!
They know there’s a prioblem - their problem
They hide it for 24 hours
For 2 days e-commerce sites are being made to look like scammers.
Finally they half admit it.
Read about it yoruself here….http://launchworkshop.com/paypal-meltdown-creates-havoc-for-ecommerce-websites/
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Posted on August 15th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
I was told by some other developers that wordpress was a useless platform to use and no one of any important relied on it. They had no recommendations by the way which i find interesting. Helpful to show that big boys are indeed using it. Why wouldn’t they, its great!
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Posted on September 12th, 2008 at 1:52 am
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Posted on September 13th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
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Posted on September 17th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
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Posted on September 18th, 2008 at 10:41 am
Good job. I’ve been using wordpress 2.5 for a while and love it. It’s been great for my business.
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