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.
1. TechCrunch
2. The New Yorker
3. BBC America
4. Bloomberg Professional
5. The Official Star Wars Blog
6. Variety
7. Sony Music
8. MTV News
9. Beyonce
10. PlayStation.Blog
11. Sweden’s Official Website
12. Microsoft News Center
13. Boingo
14. Bata
15. cPanel Blog
16. Quartz
17. Usain Bolt
18. The Walt Disney Company
19. Time Inc.
20. Facebook Newsroom
21. The New York Times Company
22. Marks & Spencer for Business
23. The Official Rackspace Blog
24. ExpressJet Blog
25. Inside BlackBerry
26. Rotary Means Business – Rotary Club
27. The Rolling Stones
28. The Walking Dead – AMC
29. The Mozilla Blog
30. The Wall Street Journal Law Blog
31. Wil Wheaton
32. Snoop Dogg
33. SAP News Center
34. Wolverine Worldwide
35. Reuters Blogs
36. Katy Perry
37. Vogue India
38. Mercedes-Benz
39. Staples Canda Blog
40. Harvard Gazette Onine
41. Pulse by Target
How to Build Your Own WordPress Site?
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Awesome article
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.
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.
what theme does ‘the nwe yorker ‘ use ??
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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.
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!
Nice list include TheVerge
Can anyone name top e-commerce website which uses wordpress?
Can anyone suggest sample websites or themes/plugins to create a website for a small consulting company?
Hi Surya Jaya,
I just began taking on small businesses refreshing their websites. Please email me and we can discuss further!
Melissa
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.
Can anyone suggest sample websites or themes/plugins to create a website for a small consulting company?
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
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
Looks like it’s written in JSP…
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. ?
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.
@DANIEL LAIXER you can view these websites’ PAGE SOURCE and you will see the codes. Do a Ctrl + F and type in “wp-content”
But you can modify the page code to remove that :/
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
¿But how can you know they’re using wordpress?
That’s a great question and I definitely remember how to answer it!
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.
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.
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!
Don’t mention what platform you’re going to use.
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.