Wordpress is the very customizable and developer friendly. You can make just about any website you have in mind with it; blog, portfolio, gallery, e-store, etc.
WordPress is much more than just a blogging platform. If you still see it that way, you will change your point of view after seeing these great sites using WordPress as a CMS.
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1. The Ford Story
2. UX Booth
3. OurLife
4. Network Solutions
5. Texas Tech Tody
6.Tumberline Lodge
7.Department of Environmental Sciences
8. Outreach Magazine
9. Boys and Girls Club of the Midlands
10. BigGovHealth
11. Studi Plus
12. Maquina Dos Azteca
13. Jim DeMint
14 .Brazilian Culture Ministry
15. Andy Roddick
16. WSJ. Magazine
17. Casa de Moneda
18. R&W Mosman and Neutral Bay Real Estate
19. TV Tonight
20. Spotify
21. HoldFire Hosting
22. Utah Luxury
23. Elemental
24. North Fulton Democrats
25. Ulster Grocer
26. Ecoki
27. Rex Magazine
28. Restaurant Nuevo
29. Clazh
30. Texture King
Hope you like the collection , if you know some inspiring sites like these then please share them with us!
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Daniel (10 comments)24 September 09
It would appear that there are a lot of conservative websites using Wordpress.
Matt Dunn (2 comments)24 September 09
The things you can do with Wordpress is endless. Their growth in the past few years shows that. I barely even do regular websites anymore.
Dan (4 comments)24 September 09
It would be interesting to find out why they chose WP, and what they think of it now.
Arpit Jacob (1 comments)24 September 09
Thank you for featuring my site. I am currently in the process of redesigning my site as you can see the current design is 2 years old, the new design should be up in a week time. Would love some feedback.
leandrw (1 comments)25 September 09
Wow… gostei do post (I like of the post). Mas ainda acho que tem alguns site utilizando o wordpress mais bem trabalhados.
B (1 comments)25 September 09
Im using Wordpress as a CMS too, with the Influx theme
Jason Palmer (1 comments)25 September 09
We are also using Wordpress as a CMS at http://www.flatheadu.com.
Would love your thoughts on this.
Ozh (1 comments)25 September 09
“WordPress as a CMS” bwahahaharh.
Kishan Bagaria (4 comments)25 September 09
There is a typo in this article. It should be “5. Texas Tech Today” instead of “5. Texas Tech Tody”.
OtherWebGuy (1 comments)25 September 09
It should also be Timberline, not Tumberline.
Web 2.0 (5 comments)25 September 09
Awesome collection.. Great work
Chantal (1 comments)25 September 09
RE: “It would appear that there are a lot of conservative websites using Wordpress.”
Yeah, and isn’t open source, like, socialism?
clay (1 comments)25 September 09
Uh, yeah. #23 thru #27 are all such CONSERVATIVE sites.
Craig Wann (3 comments)25 September 09
I have been toying with the idea of using wordpress as a CMS. As a matter-of-fact, I am submitting a proposal to do client’s website in Wordpress today. Any pro’s and con’s on this? I have only heard good things. Joomla/Drupal seem to have too great of a learning curve in the admin for most of my Clients.
Adam Haney (1 comments)25 September 09
We switched over to doing all of our client’s sites in wordpress a few months ago. It’s been great, because we went from an inhouse CMS (that frankly didn’t work very well) to having the support of the wordpress community. It saves us time in development and the customer ends up with a better product, you can’t beat that.
Vid Raatior (1 comments)25 September 09
Great collection of featured sites using WP.
gratis geld (1 comments)25 September 09
The only one I know is UXbooth, but nice list nevertheless.
Syed Balkhi (3 comments)25 September 09
Here is another one for you to follow:
http://www.wpbeginner.com
Keith Davis (60 comments)25 September 09
I’ve already decided that CMS sites are what clients want and Wordpress appears to have so many advantages as a CMS.
Lots of videos out there are showing how to add static pages and premium theme sites are beginning to offer page based themes.
I think that I’ve come to Wordpress at an exciting time… perhaps the straight blog site is in decline and the page based site, with or without a blog is taking over.
And Wordpress is great for SEO… what more could you ask for.
My only reservation? Will clients cope with the dashboard?
I don’t know the answer to that one.
Sy (1 comments)26 September 09
This is my concern too. I suppose it’s like anything else with clients and computers – some will be fine, some will struggle.
Juan Batista (1 comments)26 September 09
Just started using wordpress myself. Don’t know a whole lot about it, but you have given me some really good ideas.
Synergy Informatics (4 comments)26 September 09
hi, it inspires us to use wp as CMS for our sites too…
thank you for sharing…
Sziget (1 comments)26 September 09
I wish next post will be named ‘20 Simple Steps How To Turn Your Wordpress Blog Into Cool CMS’ or something.
codeyeti (1 comments)26 September 09
While you certainly can use Wordpress as a CMS, why would you do this? Why would wordpress be better than a traditional CMS?
Jon (9 comments)26 September 09
I saw ford at the top, and that says it all really.
Mike (9 comments)26 September 09
I just started using WP for my new site earlier this year after a web designer suggested doing so. Great decision. Very simple to use and maintain. Just be sure to have the right host.
Djolhan (4 comments)27 September 09
It’s not a bid idea, but need a theme better optimized thant all seen on the web to be good has a “normal” cms
Jessica Deal (4 comments)28 September 09
These sites are beautiful. I love WP and its flexibility. You can literally make any type of website you want with it. Thanks for this showcase!
vinoth (5 comments)28 September 09
This list is awesome.. it is an inspirational one..
Jo Couchman (1 comments)28 September 09
WordPress is brilliant for almost any kind of website/blog combination. I customise WordPress sites for all my website client’s now and wouldn’t use anything else. It is also very easy for most clients to add to and manage once I hand over the finished design.
buybatteryca (14 comments)28 September 09
more and more people are using WP.
Carla (9 comments)28 September 09
Great list. I’m always looking for new ideas for non-blog Wordpress sites.
Internet Marketing Consultant (3 comments)28 September 09
Awesome list. LOved the way WP is used. The one i liked the most was for R&W.
Douglas Bonneville (2 comments)28 September 09
We just started using WordPress in lieu of all other forms of development. No more hand-coding HTML from scratch for Joomla or ExpressionEngine, no way. The SEO options of some themes are worth the price of admission right there. Google “Hybrid Theme” and get cracking on it. Amazing!
Keith Davis (60 comments)23 December 09
Hi Doug
I’ve just started looking at Hybrid.
I’ve signed up for the free membership but it looks as though I will have to take on the paid membership to get the really good stuff.
Do you have any other comments on Hybrid?
wien (1 comments)29 September 09
nice post, thanks
Web Design Beach (31 comments)4 October 09
It’s really interesting to see how big companies and names are using Wordpress is their own stable CMS system. Thanks for sharing.
Tod Johnson (1 comments)12 October 09
All of our website are now being built using Wordpress. Doesn’t matter if it is a corporate site or a blog, we still go with Wordpress. It’s the best CMS!
miguel (1 comments)19 October 09
Muchas gracias… en verdad que muy buena colección de sitios. Para tomar nota de todo lo que se puede hacer con una herramienta como wordpress.
Saludos desde México…:D
Offshore Web Development (4 comments)20 October 09
I can’t help but agree with this post. We have been creating websites in our offshore web development business using WordPress and so far, we didn’t encounter any issues about them.
Free Wordpress Installation (2 comments)20 October 09
Some very inspiring designs here. Thanks for sharing!
Valldeperas (1 comments)21 October 09
Really interesting post to show wordpress possibities!
Let’s tweet it!
Wordpress Installation (2 comments)27 October 09
Wordpress is all too often considered a blogging CMS. We’ve developed some great corporate sites with Wordpress and is our preferred CMS.
Join (1 comments)28 October 09
it is an inspirational one…
This list is awesome..
Alenchik (1 comments)12 November 09
I was actually surprised to find out that these all run on wordpress. Its interesting cause I have just been arguing on this subject with my husband ( who is in the IT business), my point of view was that many websites today are using wordpress as well as many sites are also blogs. thank you for this post.
Jordan Foutz (4 comments)16 November 09
WP is awesome. Scalable, flexible, and plugins really help you keep development time/costs @ a minimum. A lot of my little side project sites in the future will be built using Word Press.
Вуле (1 comments)28 November 09
Awesome collection as tribute to WP.
Keith Davis (60 comments)28 November 09
So true!
I’m still getting used to the power of Wordpress.
Perhaps the downside is all those security issues, but as a CMS with thousands of fantastic themes, Wordpress every time.
925ly (4 comments)9 December 09
using Wordpress as a CMS, i like.
Themes (1 comments)16 December 09
Anyone know how WP compares with Joomla/Drupal when it comes to company websites? Just curious if more big corporations use WP than any other CMS
Michael Martin (1316 comments)17 December 09
It depends on the individual company and what sort of a website they’re after. For a lot of people though, it might come down more to the developer’s personal preference for which system to work with. I’d imagine that a lot of projects could be done equally well with WordPress or Drupal, so the developer’s preference would be the decider.
Rajesh (3 comments)26 December 09
Very nice collection. I think the ford one is outstanding
WPExplorer (6 comments)27 December 09
Really nice list. Some great design ideas here.
PS: To support the Author; IE is terrible.
notrick (3 comments)28 January 10
Even I do it. On 13 of My Websites.
designbycyberware (5 comments)30 January 10
This really shows how popular wordpress has become as a content management system, due to it’s intuitive implementation and brilliant versatility. Wordpress will continue to grow and grow in popularity.
Webtoolfeed (2 comments)8 February 10
Great Roundup!
car wraps (2 comments)22 February 10
I bookmarked this post for design ideas!
cheap florida vacations (2 comments)22 February 10
very nice collection.
m65 (19 comments)27 February 10
is it good to use cms when you are new to html and such?
MadRukus (7 comments)2 March 10
Gotta love Wordpress, so far I’ve used Joomla, Drupal and a couple others but none are as easy to use or function like Wordpress. Great article