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40+ Most Notable Big Name Brands that are Using WordPress

Last updated on March 8th, 2019 by Editorial Staff
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40+ Most Notable Big Name Brands that are Using WordPress

Do you want to know which big name brands are using WordPress? One of the common misconceptions about WordPress is that since it is open source, it may not be good enough for big brands. To disprove this myth, we have created a list of most notable big name brands that are using WordPress on their websites.

Top Brands Using WordPress

1. TechCrunch

2. The New Yorker

The New Yorker

3. BBC America

BBC America

4. Bloomberg Professional

Bloomberg Professional

5. The Official Star Wars Blog

The Official Star Wars Blog

6. Variety

Variety

7. Sony Music

8. MTV News

MTV News

9. Beyonce

Beyonce

10. PlayStation.Blog

PlayStation.Blog

11. Sweden’s Official Website

Sweden

12. Microsoft News Center

Microsoft News Center

13. Boingo

Boingo

14. Bata

Bata

15. cPanel Blog

cPanel Blog

16. Quartz

Quartz

17. Usain Bolt

Usain Bolt

18. The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company

19. Time Inc.

Time Inc

20. Facebook Newsroom

Facebook Newsroom

21. The New York Times Company

The New York Times Company

22. Marks & Spencer for Business

Marks & Spencer for Business

23. The Official Rackspace Blog

Official Rackspace Blog

24. ExpressJet Blog

ExpressJet Blog

25. Inside BlackBerry

Inside BlackBerry

26. Rotary Means Business – Rotary Club

Rotary Means Business - Rotary Club

27. The Rolling Stones

Rolling Stone

28. The Walking Dead – AMC

The Walking Dead - AMC

29. The Mozilla Blog

The Mozilla Blog

30. The Wall Street Journal Law Blog

The Wall Street Journal Law Blog

31. Wil Wheaton

Wil Wheaton

32. Snoop Dogg

Snoop Dogg

33. SAP News Center

SAP News Center

34. Wolverine Worldwide

Wolverine Worldwide

35. Reuters Blogs

Reuters Blogs

36. Katy Perry

Katy Perry

37. Vogue India

Vogue India

38. Mercedes-Benz

Mercedes-Benz

39. Staples Canada Blog

Staples Canada Blog

40. Harvard Gazette Onine

Harvard Gazette Online

41. Pulse by Target

Pulse by Target

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Looking at all these popular brands using WordPress, you may be wondering how you can start your own WordPress website.

First you need to make sure that you are choosing the right platform. A self-hosted WordPress.org site gives you the freedom to build truly powerful websites with all the features of WordPress.

See our guide on the difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org.

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  1. shivam says:
    Jul 27, 2020 at 12:40 am

    nive artice write more like this

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Jul 27, 2020 at 1:45 pm

      Glad you like our article :)

      Reply
  2. Victoria says:
    Nov 7, 2019 at 9:53 am

    Are these websites using all WP products?
    Are they using any of the themes?
    Where on the site is noted that they are using WP?

    Thank you

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Nov 8, 2019 at 9:51 am

      Each site is different for what they’re using and if they state they’re using WordPress. For your questions, you may want to take a look at our article here: https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-themes/how-to-find-which-wordpress-theme-a-site-is-using/

      Reply
  3. Yuvraj Khavad says:
    Sep 18, 2019 at 5:44 am

    Hello Team,
    Thanks for the good list.

    Just verify beyonce website again. Looks like they use python now.

    Thanks again.

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Sep 18, 2019 at 9:13 am

      You’re welcome, we’ll be sure to take a look :)

      Reply
  4. Ben says:
    Aug 21, 2019 at 10:45 pm

    You spelled Canada wrong on number 39

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Aug 22, 2019 at 9:52 am

      Thanks for letting us know, we’ll be sure to fix that typo :)

      Reply
  5. Arslan says:
    Aug 6, 2019 at 9:25 am

    Mercedes benz don’t use WordPress Webiste please don’t misguide

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Aug 6, 2019 at 10:49 am

      While they have customized their site heavily they are currently using WordPress

      Reply
  6. wendy says:
    May 23, 2019 at 12:03 pm

    thanks for the list

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      May 24, 2019 at 9:40 am

      You’re welcome :)

      Reply
  7. Rahmat baghdadi says:
    Jul 30, 2018 at 4:44 am

    Hi there,
    Awesome. I just wonder, it seems all of these sites are being used as a weblog of somesort. Can we get a similar list for e-commerce, crm, education and etc. side of wordpress too?
    I dont expect alibaba or amazon using wordpress to manage their e-commerce, but surely there should be some well known e-commerce wordpress sites, right?

    Reply
    • Harneet Singh says:
      Aug 26, 2018 at 3:32 pm

      Very valid question. I was evaluating the list before starting my ecomm business.

      Reply
  8. Dharmendra Verma says:
    Apr 11, 2018 at 12:45 am

    Awesome article

    Reply
  9. Laura says:
    Jul 12, 2017 at 2:42 pm

    Not sure why anyone would expect that any of these large corporations using WP would be using it “straight out of the box” or that they’d be using an easily purchased theme. These guys have development teams that have customized their installs tremendously. And that’s part of what showing the power of WP is about, imho! No, these sites are not the level of your average WPBeginner, or even average WP person at all. But it does go to show that it’s not just little mom and pop companies who use this.

    Reply
  10. d4v1d says:
    May 11, 2017 at 9:55 am

    Nont one of these sites uses WP out of the box – there is considerable custom development to make these sites work the way they do, development costing six figures and more. those sites are not ‘wpbeginner’ grade.

    Reply
  11. Elika says:
    Dec 19, 2016 at 2:51 am

    what theme does ‘the nwe yorker ‘ use ??

    Reply
  12. Shimul says:
    Dec 15, 2016 at 3:48 am

    I need a wordpress site like Media Server or FTP Server…
    If you find any of them just mail me…
    Its really important to me…
    Thanks

    Reply
  13. Ramesh says:
    May 11, 2016 at 8:23 am

    Looks like most of these sites are using wp for blogs. Not sure if BestBuy is using it for eCommerce platform or just for blogs.

    Reply
  14. pintu says:
    May 9, 2016 at 2:59 pm

    Awesome, I have actually always wanted a comprehensive list like this to show to clients who are a little hesitant when I mention WordPress. Great list!

    Reply
  15. Adeeb says:
    Apr 24, 2016 at 3:08 pm

    Nice list include TheVerge

    Reply
  16. John says:
    Apr 21, 2016 at 5:17 am

    Can anyone name top e-commerce website which uses wordpress?

    Reply
  17. Surya Jaya says:
    Apr 18, 2016 at 3:16 pm

    Can anyone suggest sample websites or themes/plugins to create a website for a small consulting company?

    Reply
    • Melissa Honeck says:
      Apr 21, 2016 at 4:51 pm

      Hi Surya Jaya,
      I just began taking on small businesses refreshing their websites. Please email me and we can discuss further!

      Melissa

      Reply
  18. kingtnt says:
    Sep 16, 2015 at 11:31 am

    Excellent list, I checked out the sites and it looks like the Wall Street Journal & the Philips sites aren’t WordPress. At least any more.

    Reply
  19. Richard says:
    Sep 9, 2015 at 12:01 pm

    Can anyone suggest sample websites or themes/plugins to create a website for a small consulting company?

    Reply
  20. Jesse Waters says:
    Sep 8, 2015 at 3:41 pm

    One might with some validity wonder how many of these corporate entities (if any) are using WordPress.com—carrying an assigned domain name—versus their own sites with WordPress[.org] software installed privately

    Reply
  21. Ryan McBride says:
    Aug 13, 2015 at 5:30 pm

    I have a prospective client who told me they don’t think WordPress can handle their ~500 product e-commerce store that requires a great deal of WooCommerce customization. They think that MySQL will make it slow for such large queries. I cited some of the sites from this article to overcome their objections but it got me thinking– is the eCommerce aspect of a site as large as Best Buy still handled through WordPress or is it just integrated with a custom shopping cart solution that doesn’t have MySQL encumbering it?

    Ryan McBride
    Website Developer

    Reply
    • GJP says:
      Oct 10, 2015 at 6:55 am

      Looks like it’s written in JSP…

      Reply
  22. cajun thrityseveen says:
    Jul 8, 2015 at 9:51 am

    Word Press Is great, but I don’t see any major I.T. or U.S. Government entity using it. Recently Dark Reading (I.T. Security) Posted that many (unpatched) websites have been victimized by persistent hacker groups. What can one set up a test page to get patches automatically, behind the firewall or in the D.M.Z. ?

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Jul 8, 2015 at 12:06 pm

      There are thousands of government, non-profit, and IT websites using WordPress. Using older outdated version of any software on the internet is not recommended. WordPress is used on 24% of all websites so at any given time the number of WordPress websites under attack will always be higher than other CMS.

      Reply
  23. Rambo Ruiz says:
    Apr 21, 2015 at 3:03 pm

    @DANIEL LAIXER you can view these websites’ PAGE SOURCE and you will see the codes. Do a Ctrl + F and type in “wp-content”

    Reply
  24. Daniel Laixer says:
    Jan 25, 2015 at 11:21 am

    But you can modify the page code to remove that :/

    Reply
  25. WPBeginner Staff says:
    Dec 18, 2014 at 8:47 pm

    You are right this is the easiest way. But most business sites usually get it removed. In that case, you will need to look into their homepage’s source code to see if they have generator meta tag, links to wp-content and common WordPress files, and other clues. Another easier way is to simply ask the site owner :)

    Reply
  26. Daniel Laixer says:
    Dec 9, 2014 at 11:16 am

    ¿But how can you know they’re using wordpress?

    Reply
    • Carmello C. Antonius says:
      Dec 18, 2014 at 12:02 pm

      That’s a great question and I definitely remember how to answer it!

      Reply
  27. Kevin says:
    Dec 4, 2014 at 4:45 pm

    Do you have any examples of (major) technology companies or others using WordPress for their product documentation, like online help topics, including context-sensitive help, for multiple products? That would be good to see as well.

    Reply
  28. Marc Connor says:
    Oct 20, 2014 at 2:42 am

    Excellent list, I checked out the sites and it looks like the Wall Street Journal & the Philips sites aren’t WordPress. At least any more.

    Reply
  29. Brian Jackson says:
    Aug 13, 2014 at 4:27 pm

    Awesome, I have actually always wanted a comprehensive list like this to show to clients who are a little hesitant when I mention WordPress. Great list!

    Reply
    • Don't says:
      Mar 7, 2016 at 6:41 pm

      Don’t mention what platform you’re going to use.

      Reply
      • Jerry Nwosu says:
        Feb 13, 2019 at 8:52 pm

        And what if the client ask?

        Reply
        • Tell him says:
          Mar 20, 2019 at 2:44 am

          Tell him

  30. Nevis1 says:
    Aug 13, 2014 at 9:26 am

    What a great article. Next time I have a client who has never heard of WordPress, I can forward this post to them. That ought to open their eyes.

    Reply

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