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.
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- 22 January, 2008 @ 16:53 by Ryan Imel
Posted January 22, 2008
Michael Martine said:
Michael, thanks for this list. Helpful in convincing clients that WordPress is a good platform for a business blog, rather than TypePad.
on January 22, 2008 at 8:58 pm
Michael Castilla said:
@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.
on January 22, 2008 at 9:47 pm
Thássius V. said:
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.
on January 22, 2008 at 11:20 pm
Darren Hoyt said:
Don’t forget Matt’s monster list of famous WP blogs.
on January 22, 2008 at 11:58 pm
Michael Castilla said:
@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.
on January 23, 2008 at 9:55 am
Mike Smith said:
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.
on January 24, 2008 at 9:49 pm
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on January 28, 2008 at 8:33 pm
Web Design said:
Thanks for the great info!
on February 2, 2008 at 9:11 pm
Jim Mirkalami said:
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.
Regards,
Jim Mirkalami
on February 6, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Jim Mirkalami said:
I have been visiting this site a lot lately, so i thought it is a good idea to show my appreciation with a comment.
Thanks,
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on February 8, 2008 at 4:38 am
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on February 12, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Built From Skratch said:
Interesting read. Great post
on February 14, 2008 at 4:41 pm
Built From Skratch said:
That was pretty interesting. Thanks for sharing!
-Dre
on February 14, 2008 at 5:19 pm
Doug Steele said:
Interesting. There are some good ideass presented here. I need to do spend some time reading more about these topics.
on February 17, 2008 at 9:32 pm
Built From Skratch said:
Just wanted to say hello and great blog!
on February 18, 2008 at 7:25 am
Jim Bright said:
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.
on February 18, 2008 at 3:43 pm
Kanye West Glow in the Dark Tour said:
Great blog!
on February 18, 2008 at 7:31 pm
Thássius V. said:
@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.
on February 20, 2008 at 1:20 am
Joni Mueller said:
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.
on February 20, 2008 at 11:17 am
Chicago Plumber said:
Interesting. There are some good ideass presented here. I need to do spend some time reading more about these topics.
on February 25, 2008 at 10:47 pm
iphone said:
great post, thx u very much!
on March 12, 2008 at 4:43 pm
Kashin Torwalds said:
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.
on March 16, 2008 at 7:27 am
Michael Castilla said:
@Kashin – Yeah sure go ahead.
on March 16, 2008 at 9:38 am
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on March 25, 2008 at 12:40 am
dizi izle said:
good list, thanks.
on March 26, 2008 at 12:36 pm
Rachael said:
Thanks for the information…I am looking to open my own business within the next few months. Good luck with everything!
on April 1, 2008 at 1:42 pm
zinni said:
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.
on April 3, 2008 at 11:07 pm
Ödev said:
few seconds on WordPress Modder I found a very useful tutorail for adding an Amazon Associates Store to a WordPress blog which I will put to use immediately on a couple
on April 20, 2008 at 12:22 pm
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on April 22, 2008 at 8:50 pm
Thomas May Photography said:
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.
on April 23, 2008 at 7:42 am
PSP PAD said:
Great post …thank you for providing the list
on April 25, 2008 at 11:50 am
Jewels said:
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.
on May 1, 2008 at 12:14 pm
gazete oku said:
thanks
on May 1, 2008 at 6:13 pm
Greg Roy said:
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.
on May 5, 2008 at 7:07 pm
muhabbet said:
thank
on May 13, 2008 at 5:32 am
Raj said:
Thanx 4 the list. I love WordPress and using it for all my blogs
on May 19, 2008 at 1:00 am
Tony said:
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/
on May 19, 2008 at 12:15 pm
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on August 15, 2008 at 10:22 pm
Joe said:
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!
on August 15, 2008 at 10:51 pm
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on September 9, 2008 at 1:28 pm
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on September 12, 2008 at 1:52 am
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on September 13, 2008 at 12:57 pm
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on September 17, 2008 at 1:30 pm
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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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on September 22, 2008 at 10:22 am
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on October 3, 2008 at 9:28 am