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   Reply Daniel 24th September 2009 at 8:02 pm

   It would appear that there are a lot of conservative websites using WordPress.
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   Reply Matt Dunn 24th September 2009 at 8:19 pm

   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.
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   Reply Dan 24th September 2009 at 8:31 pm

   It would be interesting to find out why they chose WP, and what they think of it now.
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   Reply Arpit Jacob 24th September 2009 at 9:00 pm

   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.
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   Reply leandrw 25th September 2009 at 3:35 am

   Wow… gostei do post (I like of the post). Mas ainda acho que tem alguns site utilizando o wordpress mais bem trabalhados.
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   Reply B 25th September 2009 at 4:14 am

   Im using WordPress as a CMS too, with the Influx theme :D
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   Reply Jason Palmer 25th September 2009 at 4:58 am

   We are also using WordPress as a CMS at http://www.flatheadu.com.

   Would love your thoughts on this.
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   Reply Ozh 25th September 2009 at 7:17 am

   “WordPress as a CMS” bwahahaharh.
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   Reply Kishan Bagaria 25th September 2009 at 7:49 am

   There is a typo in this article. It should be “5. Texas Tech Today” instead of “5. Texas Tech Tody”.
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     Reply OtherWebGuy 25th September 2009 at 1:31 pm

     It should also be Timberline, not Tumberline.
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    Reply Web 2.0 25th September 2009 at 2:05 pm

    Awesome collection.. Great work :)
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    Reply Chantal 25th September 2009 at 3:06 pm

    RE: “It would appear that there are a lot of conservative websites using WordPress.”

    Yeah, and isn’t open source, like, socialism?
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    Reply clay 25th September 2009 at 3:27 pm

    Uh, yeah. #23 thru #27 are all such CONSERVATIVE sites.
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    Reply Craig Wann 25th September 2009 at 5:34 pm

    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.
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    Reply Adam Haney 25th September 2009 at 5:43 pm

    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.
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    Reply Vid Raatior 25th September 2009 at 6:22 pm

    Great collection of featured sites using WP.
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    Reply gratis geld 25th September 2009 at 8:11 pm

    The only one I know is UXbooth, but nice list nevertheless.
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    Reply Syed Balkhi 25th September 2009 at 10:16 pm

    Here is another one for you to follow:

    http://www.wpbeginner.com
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    Reply Keith Davis 25th September 2009 at 10:37 pm

    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.
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      Reply Sy 26th September 2009 at 11:11 am

      This is my concern too. I suppose it’s like anything else with clients and computers – some will be fine, some will struggle.
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    Reply Juan Batista 26th September 2009 at 12:25 am

    Just started using wordpress myself. Don’t know a whole lot about it, but you have given me some really good ideas.
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    Reply Synergy Informatics 26th September 2009 at 5:59 am

    hi, it inspires us to use wp as CMS for our sites too…

    thank you for sharing…
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    Reply Sziget 26th September 2009 at 5:37 pm

    I wish next post will be named ’20 Simple Steps How To Turn Your WordPress Blog Into Cool CMS’ or something.
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    Reply codeyeti 26th September 2009 at 8:32 pm

    While you certainly can use WordPress as a CMS, why would you do this? Why would wordpress be better than a traditional CMS?
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      Reply Mike 3rd December 2010 at 11:32 pm

      Because other CMSs may not have the community support and extensibility of WordPress. Plus, given WordPress’ popularity, there are countless resources for you and your clients to learn more – and it’s more likely to stick around than the more obscure CMSs.
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    Reply Jon 26th September 2009 at 9:41 pm

    I saw ford at the top, and that says it all really.
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    Reply Mike 26th September 2009 at 10:11 pm

    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.
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    Reply Djolhan 27th September 2009 at 1:22 pm

    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
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    Reply Jessica Deal 28th September 2009 at 1:35 am

    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!
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      Reply jimmy 24th January 2011 at 10:26 am

      Yeah i m agree with your point of view. Word press much flexible to any other and its is also very easy. Any one can use word press.
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    Reply vinoth 28th September 2009 at 3:21 am

    This list is awesome.. it is an inspirational one..
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    Reply Jo Couchman 28th September 2009 at 3:34 am

    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.
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    Reply Carla 28th September 2009 at 6:40 am

    Great list. I’m always looking for new ideas for non-blog WordPress sites.
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    Reply Internet Marketing Consultant 28th September 2009 at 1:23 pm

    Awesome list. LOved the way WP is used. The one i liked the most was for R&W.
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    Reply Douglas Bonneville 28th September 2009 at 3:54 pm

    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!
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      Reply Keith Davis 23rd December 2009 at 8:39 pm

      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?
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    Reply wien 29th September 2009 at 2:36 pm

    nice post, thanks
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    Reply Web Design Beach 4th October 2009 at 12:12 pm

    It’s really interesting to see how big companies and names are using WordPress is their own stable CMS system. Thanks for sharing.
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    Reply Tod Johnson 12th October 2009 at 3:05 pm

    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!
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    Reply miguel 19th October 2009 at 5:32 pm

    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
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    Reply Offshore Web Development 20th October 2009 at 5:06 am

    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.
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    Reply Free Wordpress Installation 20th October 2009 at 5:36 pm

    Some very inspiring designs here. Thanks for sharing!
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    Reply Valldeperas 21st October 2009 at 2:38 pm

    Really interesting post to show wordpress possibities!
    Let’s tweet it!
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    Reply Wordpress Installation 27th October 2009 at 3:21 am

    WordPress is all too often considered a blogging CMS. We’ve developed some great corporate sites with WordPress and is our preferred CMS.
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    Reply Join 28th October 2009 at 6:10 am

    it is an inspirational one…

    This list is awesome..
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    Reply Alenchik 12th November 2009 at 9:43 am

    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.
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    Reply Jordan Foutz 16th November 2009 at 9:50 am

    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.
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    Reply Вуле 28th November 2009 at 2:58 pm

    Awesome collection as tribute to WP.
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      Reply Keith Davis 28th November 2009 at 3:58 pm

      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.
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    Reply 925ly 9th December 2009 at 3:12 am

    using WordPress as a CMS, i like.
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    Reply Themes 16th December 2009 at 12:24 pm

    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
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      Reply Michael Martin 17th December 2009 at 12:16 am

      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.
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    Reply Rajesh 26th December 2009 at 11:24 am

    Very nice collection. I think the ford one is outstanding
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    Reply WPExplorer 27th December 2009 at 5:35 am

    Really nice list. Some great design ideas here.

    PS: To support the Author; IE is terrible.
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    Reply notrick 28th January 2010 at 7:48 am

    Even I do it. On 13 of My Websites.
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    Reply designbycyberware 30th January 2010 at 12:08 pm

    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.
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    Reply Webtoolfeed 8th February 2010 at 3:17 pm

    Great Roundup!
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    Reply car wraps 22nd February 2010 at 12:47 pm

    I bookmarked this post for design ideas!
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    Reply cheap florida vacations 22nd February 2010 at 12:49 pm

    very nice collection.
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    Reply MadRukus 2nd March 2010 at 11:02 pm

    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
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    Reply Riccardo Messina 29th March 2010 at 10:58 pm

    …And my fantastic website: http://www.playj.net !
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    Reply Jackson 12th April 2010 at 6:39 pm

    these are great. thanks!
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    Reply Bristol Web Design 25th May 2010 at 2:06 pm

    These are great examples of websites using WordPress as a CMS. I’ve only used WordPress for blogs but would like to try it as a CMS one day and these sites are very inspirational. Thanks.
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    Reply Website Seo Company 9th June 2010 at 9:11 pm

    Very nice list, holdfire hosting is pretty amazing, will save and share your blog.
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    Reply Sokobanja 4th July 2010 at 7:24 am

    I am delighted with your idea, I’ll have to record this blog in the bookmarks and to take a nice idea.
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    Reply nba shorts 12th July 2010 at 9:29 am

    Absolutely. That’s interesting.I will keep visiting this blog very often.
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    Reply website deisgn 12th July 2010 at 11:51 am

    Awesome list. LOved the way WP is used.
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    Reply Banje Srbije 13th July 2010 at 10:21 pm

    I do almost all of WordPress, and I think that’s even better than Joomla but each has its own thought and knowledge….
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    Reply Banja Vrdnik 28th July 2010 at 10:26 pm

    I think that wordpress does not give freedom to the programmer, but it is quite easy to programming…
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    Reply Sokobanja 2nd August 2010 at 1:09 pm

    WordPress in one of best CMS on the web. Realy love those sites using this CMS system. Regards
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    Reply Banja Vrdnik apartmani 2nd August 2010 at 11:05 pm

    wordpress is very nice for working…
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    Reply Paula 9th August 2010 at 6:40 pm

    Like the others have said. While it is quite expensive, it is one of the best frameworks!!!!!
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    Reply Sokobanja 9th August 2010 at 8:59 pm

    WordPress for me is the best and easiest to operate. CMS with WordPress is a good and a lot of plugins to update and create a nice website, all in all a great and thank you very much ….
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    Reply Soko Banja 9th August 2010 at 9:02 pm

    Very well explained, I also use WordPress to create websites. Thank you very much:)
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    Reply Banja Vrdnik privatni smeštaj 10th August 2010 at 6:52 pm

    wordpress is very nice for making websites…
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    Reply Banja Vrdnik Smeštaj Apartmani 18th August 2010 at 7:57 pm

    There are very good and interesting things and themes on this blog…
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    Reply VRDNIK NEKRETNINE 25th August 2010 at 6:45 pm

    WordPress is the best !!!
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    Reply Prasenjit @ Make Money Blogging 11th September 2010 at 1:56 pm

    WordPress is really customizable to an unimaginable extent.
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    Reply Nekretnine Beograd 12th September 2010 at 5:04 pm

    WordPress is the best program for making high-speed and high quality sites, I use it for two years for my many projects, cool it, and on this blog we like the best site of Andy Roddick.
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    Reply Vrnjacka banja 13th September 2010 at 4:54 pm

    Word press is in my opinion the best program for creating websites, I just use it as you said, one up in the commentary and I like the presentation of Andy Roddick that was done in wordpress
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    Reply Najnovije vesti 15th September 2010 at 9:10 am

    WordPress plugin has a lot of good help for website development, in my opinion the best WordPress
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    Reply Bela Palanka 20th September 2010 at 11:06 am

    WordPress is the best for website development…
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    Reply Privatni smeštaj apartmani u Banji Vrdnik 28th September 2010 at 12:59 am

    WordPress is the best…
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    Reply Banja Vrdnik smeštaj apartmani sobe 28th September 2010 at 8:53 pm

    Bela Palanka je bas gadna, ja tamo nikad necu ici :)
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    Reply Banja Vrdnik privatni smeštaj apartmani 29th September 2010 at 11:38 am

    WordPress the king!!!
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    Reply Banja Vrdnik Nekretnine 5th October 2010 at 1:08 pm

    wordpress express !!! :)
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    Reply Fruška Gora privatni smeštaj 5th October 2010 at 1:10 pm

    wordpress is good for webdesign…
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    Reply Novi Sad 8th October 2010 at 12:57 pm

    My site Novi Sad was made on wordpress…
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    Reply dori girsang 11th October 2010 at 8:01 am

    my site bonabalifurniture.com made on wordpress to..

    i like wordpress is powerfull cms in the world hehehheeheh
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    Reply IZRADA SAJTOVA 15th October 2010 at 12:57 pm

    Every my website made in WordPress…
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    Reply Dreb 27th October 2010 at 5:44 pm

    These sites prove that WORDPRESS is undeniably in domination. Love wordpress.
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    Reply Sokobanja spa in Serbia 29th October 2010 at 2:43 pm

    Thanks for the indicated presentation, I personally adore, and many often use WordPress, the super …
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    Reply Sokobanja smestaj 30th October 2010 at 9:42 am

    Wrodpress i good but Joomla is better.
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    Reply consultant web versailles 1st November 2010 at 7:00 pm

    oui ce sont des themes pratiques et en plus l’administration est facile pour les novices
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    Reply Vrdnik sobe 3rd November 2010 at 5:40 pm

    I do not know what to say…veru good…
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    Reply Apartmani 16th November 2010 at 9:41 am

    Great article. Meny of us just use that platform.
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    Reply Mike 3rd December 2010 at 11:37 pm

    I’ve been using WordPress for just about all my new Web site projects. Its possibilities are awe-inspiring. I came to it knowing nothing about blogging, and I still don’t use it much for that purpose. I use it to build Web sites, some of which may happen to have blogs.

    But it’s great for purely static sites, too. I love its extensibility – if there’s something you need your site to do that WordPress doesn’t offer “out of the box”, chances are, there’s a free plugin for that.
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    Reply Apartmani 7th December 2010 at 9:38 am

    For me the best site with wordpress cms is the site of Andy Roddick
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    Reply Niksa Banja 7th December 2010 at 11:01 am

    I only use WordPress for making all my sites. The best is a good optimization
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    Reply Smestaj apartmani 8th December 2010 at 9:21 am

    wordpress, good work…my website was made in wordpress…
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    Reply Buitenlampen 16th December 2010 at 7:42 pm

    Great article. I am more of a Joomla! guy. But i’m willing to change my preference because of all the great WordPress stuff you see these days.
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    Reply Vrnjacka Banja 2nd January 2011 at 9:43 pm

    This site is an excellent!
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    Reply Sutomore 4th January 2011 at 12:28 am

    wordpress is really good and easy cms…
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    Reply Gail Payne 8th January 2011 at 4:35 pm

    Hi. Thanks for giving us this information.

    Do you know or guess that most of the sites you showcase are wordpress.com hosted or are self-hosted and use wordpress.org software?

    I am new to using wordpress but have gotten a few requests for it recently.
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    Reply Srbijaoglasi 10th January 2011 at 6:50 pm

    Nice blog thanks!
    SrbijaOglasi
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    Reply Cheap Consumer 17th January 2011 at 3:08 pm

    Nice blog thanks!.Great article. I am more of a Joomla! guy. But i’m willing to change my preference because of all the great WordPress stuff you see these days.
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     Reply knife sets 23rd January 2011 at 7:41 am

     Great list. I’m always looking for new ideas for non-blog WordPress sites.
     Thank 4 sharing
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     Reply Majice 30th January 2011 at 1:02 pm

     I just started using WP for my new site earlier this year after a web designer suggested doing so. No more hand-coding HTML from scratch for Joomla or ExpressionEngine. Really nice CMS.
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     Reply Niska Banja 30th January 2011 at 2:11 pm

     Very good post, I like it and I would like to say that I use WordPress themes for my sites. Thanks
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     Reply Rosolina hotel 30th January 2011 at 6:41 pm

     WordPress cms is the fastest…
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     Super awesome post man, can you do me a favor and post some more of these Quality pictures! thanks
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     Reply Apartmani Soko Banja 11th March 2011 at 8:31 am

     WordPress is a great CMS but is mainly aimed at bloggers which can be a little bothered that when selecting art for a site that is not based on a blog
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     Reply Soko Banja 21st March 2011 at 9:36 am

     Great post about worlds best CMS software
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     Reply Turisticka agencija Sokobanja 24th March 2011 at 4:43 am

     WordPress is one of the best when it comes to CMS, and if you have Artister used to create templates then this is a hit, you have great blog …
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     Reply Banja Vrdnik 4th April 2011 at 6:33 pm

     WP is the best…
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     Reply Apartmani Soko Banja 23rd April 2011 at 6:12 am

     Wp is the best CMS software
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     Reply Yoga Retreats UK 1st May 2011 at 4:05 pm

     Hi Guys,

     I would say that this list is missing some other pretty bits sites such as:

     mashable.com
     blog.mozilla.com

     and

     techcrunch.com

     Some new ones in here though that I was not aware of.

     Cheers

     Paulo
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     Reply Kokan i Sin Sokobanja 5th May 2011 at 6:03 am

     WordPress is really the best CMS in the world, I use it regularly.
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     Reply Alan Son 9th June 2011 at 3:46 pm

     I have been using wordpress as a cms since version 2.0. Now with 3.0 I would now call it a true CMS rather than a blog engine, that’s not to say that it has forgotten it’s roots.
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     Reply Soko Banja apartmani 13th June 2011 at 9:13 pm

     WordPress is the best in terms of optimization, I have about 15 sites done in WordPress, the best …
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     Reply Phone sex 6th July 2011 at 6:06 pm

     some great wordpress sites on this article
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     Reply Fabio Neves de Brito 20th August 2011 at 11:37 pm

     Great, great article!

     The company I work is also using WordPress and I must admit: I love WordPress!

     If you are curious, please check the link http://www.gefuso.com

     It´s so easy!

     Nice article!
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     Reply Stephanie 5th September 2011 at 10:18 am

     Some nice designs in there and all built in word press which shows how word press can be used and adapted for all types of designs. Looking at the examples I really like the look of Casa de Moneda, Restaurant Nuevo and holdfire.
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     Reply Dheeraj 5th September 2011 at 11:59 am

     There is one more. An RSS Feed Reader based on wordpress at http://www.my.infonary.com. It not only lets you follow your favourite Rss feeds but news from any topic. It also offers a RSS Mixer which lets you follow everything on your page with a single RSS feed.
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     Reply Geld verdienen op internet 26th September 2011 at 9:14 am

     Great designs. I use wordpress a lot and I think it’s very easy to use for everyone. You don’t have to be an expert on webdesign. They are also improving all the time, that a good thing. Using social media for example is very easy using wordpress.
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     WordPress has helped my business so much, no more dealing with small time maintenance, I’m giving my clients powerful marketing tools that blend, seo, sem and social media!!
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     Reply Rick 28th October 2011 at 2:30 am

     Problem; WordPress is basically mom and pop shop.
     Most large corporations, including Ford listed here, do not use WordPress for their large public facing sites. WordPress lacks true integration ability, true workflow, like a true CMS like Sitecore for example.
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     Reply Vasmpel 1st November 2011 at 1:46 pm

     http://ebiz.org.ua – there’s a great multitasking system EBIZ CMS – the most inexpensive of clever CMS in the world!
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