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21 Excellent WordPress Website Examples That You Should Check Out in 2021

Last updated on January 2nd, 2021 by Editorial Staff
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21 Excellent WordPress Website Examples That You Should Check Out in 2021

Looking for some excellent WordPress website examples to get inspiration? WordPress has been used by many of the world’s top designers and developers who use it to build highly engaging websites. In this article, we will share some excellent WordPress website examples that you must check out for inspiration.

Excellent WordPress Website Examples That You Should Check Out in 2018

1. The Obama Foundation

The Obama Foundation

The website for the President Obama’s non-profit organization sports a modern unique design that compliments the vision and mission of the foundation. It uses large fonts, Maintree for paragraphs and Gotham SSM for headings.

It has a collapsed navigation menu on the left, which flies in when a user takes mouse over it. Apart from typography and clean simple design, the website utilizes multimedia, social sharing, and page templates for a polished user experience.

2. Angry Birds

Angry Birds

The official website for the popular game. It features a simple design utilizing the game’s fun visual graphics as the main backdrop of every page. This works really well in maintaining the same spirit and consistency as the game itself.

3. 99U

99u

99U is a popular culture and design blog for creatives. Its homepage features a magazine style template, with sticky navigation menu on top, and featured images displayed in a beautiful masonry grid layout.

4. Creative Ad Awards

Creative Ad Awards

Creative Ad Awards is the place to celebrate the best ads from all over the world. Its homepage features a large fullscreen background image on top which is followed by filterable categories, search box, and a grid of recent posts.

5. The Next Web

The Next Web

The Next Web is a leading online magazine covering topics like technology, science, internet, and more. Its home page features a magazine layout with featured stories on top followed by latest articles, recent posts by category, and custom sections like deals.

It utilizes technologies like lazy loading, CDN, and agressive caching to improve website speed and performance.

6. Studio OUAM

Studio OUAM

Studio OUAM is a French creative agency specializing in visual identity and brand creation. Its homepage features beautiful typography, cursor sensitive animations, beautiful parallax effects, and on-scroll animations.

7. Analytica Projects

Analytica Projects

Analytica Projects is one of the leaders in food quality control. Their website features a highly interactive animation that shows multiple parts of the quality assurance process as a user scrolls down.

8. Animal Logic

Animal Logic

Animal Logic is one of the world’s leading creative digital studios. Their homepage features a beautiful video slider on top, showcasing their work featured in top hollywood movies. The slider is followed by different sections each displayed with beautiful CSS animations.

9. Grette

Grette

Grette is a Norway based business law firm. Their website features a minimalist design, collapsed navigation menu, staff profiles, and expertise pages.

10. 10×17

10x17

10×17 is a project by 26 artists who visually interpret and countdown their favorite albums of 2017. The website features artwork by the artists and audio tracks from the albums they picked. The overall design is highly colorful, engaging, and interactive.

11. American Scraps

American Scraps

American Scraps converts scrapped artifacts from American history into comics. It features a truly unique design with the latest scrap on top, followed by other recent scraps, and a historical timeline.

12. 99% Invisible

99% Invisible

99% Invisible is one of the most popular podcasts about design. Their website features a beautiful design built for podcasting with easy navigation and quick access to their latest episodes. It has a beautiful podcast player integrated into site’s design.

13. RUYA

RUYA

Ruya is an identity design and branding agency based in the UAE. Their website features beautiful illustrations, smooth navigation, and a unique layout.

14. method

method

method is the manufacturer of environment friendly cleaning products. Their website features a mega menu on top, colorful background images, and beautiful animations.

15. Unconquered

Unconquered

Unconquered is a New York City based creative agency that specializes in brand development. Their homepage features a unique video slider and a floating logo that moves across the screen on mouse over.

16. Houston Zoo

Houston Zoo

Houston Zoo’s website is simple and informative. It features custom logo, business hours, and a navigation menu on top. The homepage content area showcases tiles in a masonry grid with a click to load more button at the bottom.

17. Protest

Protest

Protest is a sportswear manufacturer from Netherlands. Their homepage features a product image as the header with featured product categories. It uses WooCommerce for the online store and highly engaging beautiful design for individual product pages.

18. The Cool Club

The Cool Club

The Cool Club sells beautifully designed wall art and card games. Their website features their wall art and card games which uplifts the whole design . Their online store fun to browse and is powered by WooCommerce.

19. Nove

Nove

Nove is an advisory agency that helps businesses interact with European institutions. Their website features a unique design with a fullscreen video background, transparent menus, and custom page templates for different sections.

20. Jony Guedj

Jony Guedj

Jony Guedj is the website of freelance film director. It features SMPTE color bars for horizontal navigation, showing artists work as you move mouse along the bar. It is unusual and minimalist which makes the design more interesting and engaging.

21. Awesome Motive

Awesome Motive

Awesome Motive is the parent company of WPBeginner. Our company’s newly designed website is simple and elegant, featuring a subtle animation in the header with company’s mission as the welcome message. Below that, it shows vital stats, our products, job opportunities, and more.

Building Your Own Amazing Website with WordPress

All websites featured in the list use unique custom designs using various technologies. However, one thing common among all of them is WordPress.

There are two type of WordPress websites. WordPress.com which is a hosted solution and WordPress.org (also known as self-hosted WordPress). See our guide on the difference between WordPress.com vs WordPress.org.

We recommend using WordPress.org because it gives you access to all WordPress features out of the box.

You’ll need a domain name and a WordPress hosting account to start your own website with WordPress.org.

We recommend Bluehost. They are one of the biggest hosting companies in the world and officially recommended WordPress hosting provider.

After signing up for hosting, follow our guide on how to make a website for step by step instructions.

The design part of your website is controlled by your WordPress theme. All the websites mentioned above use a custom WordPress theme. A custom WordPress website will cost you a lot of money.

If you are just starting out, then you can start with an existing WordPress theme. There are thousands of beautiful WordPress themes that you can install.

See some of our hand-picked lists of the best WordPress themes that you can try:

  • Best Free WordPress themes
  • Best Business themes for WordPress
  • Best Magazine-style WordPress themes
  • Best WooCommerce WordPress themes

We hope this article helped you find some excellent WordPress website examples to get inspired and motivated. You may also want to see our list of most notable big name brands that are using WordPress.

If you liked this article, then please subscribe to our YouTube Channel for WordPress video tutorials. You can also find us on Twitter and Facebook.

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18 Comments

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  1. Pras says:
    Oct 27, 2020 at 9:42 am

    What the…. I’m speechless. These sites are freaking mind-boggling. Hahahha wow. Great job there. Thank you in advance. Take care

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Oct 27, 2020 at 10:10 am

      Glad you like the example sites we’re listing :)

      Reply
  2. Monira says:
    Sep 9, 2020 at 7:41 am

    Nice and informative

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Sep 10, 2020 at 10:20 am

      Thank you :)

      Reply
  3. fahim says:
    Aug 20, 2020 at 8:04 am

    how i can get your theme?

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Aug 20, 2020 at 10:33 am

      Our theme is custom made and not available at the moment.

      Reply
  4. jeannie boyd says:
    May 24, 2020 at 10:04 pm

    Your website is absolutely fantastic! The info you provide is so clearly written. I added it to my favorites since I’m probably going with word press. Thank you.

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      May 27, 2020 at 8:46 am

      Thank you and you’re welcome :)

      Reply
  5. Rahul Gupta says:
    Jan 8, 2020 at 11:29 am

    Great stuff!
    Really informational and Helpful.

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Jan 9, 2020 at 10:09 am

      Thank you, glad you found our content helpful :)

      Reply
  6. Ben Snow says:
    Nov 7, 2019 at 6:06 pm

    I’m a little confused. Was the Nove site, for example, made with Beaver Builder? Is that why you have the link to using Beaver Builder to make custom page templates?

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Nov 8, 2019 at 9:54 am

      Those links are to show how you can add that to your site should you want something similar :)

      Reply
  7. AKhi says:
    Sep 6, 2019 at 2:04 am

    Can you please help me with an article, where they will insrut how to make e-commerce website with WordPress.
    Thank You!

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Sep 6, 2019 at 9:58 am

      For creating a store, you would want to take a look at our guide here: https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-start-an-online-store/

      Reply
  8. Blue gold says:
    May 16, 2019 at 3:55 pm

    Can you please write post on how to create website like amazon kindle where we sell books

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      May 17, 2019 at 11:04 am

      For what it sounds like you’re wanting, you may want to take a look at our article here: https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-create-an-online-marketplace-using-wordpress/

      Reply
  9. Hipcap says:
    Jan 3, 2019 at 5:06 pm

    Thank you for the article! In developing my ideas for websites, so much of what I see online disappoints me. The examples you shared offer some great ideas for both what I’d like to accomplish and what I do not.

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Jan 4, 2019 at 1:48 pm

      Glad we could bring these to your attention :)

      Reply

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