When people are deciding why they should use WordPress, we often get asked about “can WordPress do [blank]? The answer is mostly Yes. In this article, we will show you 19 different types of websites you can create with WordPress without learning any programming skills.
Getting Started With WordPress
You will need WordPress hosting and a domain name to get started with your WordPress site. We have a step by step guide on how to make your website with WordPress.
If you just want to play around with WordPress, then you can install it on your computer. Take a look our tutorials on how to install WordPress on Windows and Mac computers.
1. Blog or Personal Website
WordPress started out as a simple blogging platform and quickly evolved into a powerful CMS. During the last 12 years, those blogging and personal website components didn’t disappear.
They have become more polished, sophisticated and mature. If you are going to create a blog or personal website, then you will find plenty of tools to manage and grow your WordPress quickly.
2. Business Website
WordPress is the easiest way to build a professional looking business website. It is so powerful that many big name brands are using WordPress to power their websites. It gives you easy tools to quickly launch a website and then extend it as your business grows.
3. eCommerce
WordPress is quickly becoming a go to solution for building an eCommerce websites. There are awesome plugins like WooCommerce, Easy Digital Downloads, and WPEcommerce which convert your WordPress website into fully functional eCommerce platform. You can accept payments, manage inventory, shipping, taxes, and users from the same roof.
4. Job Board
Several popular sites like Smashing Magazine, Problogger etc use job boards as an extra source of income. There is a growing demand of niche job boards catering the needs of a specific industry or specialization.
WordPress allows you easily create a job board where employers can post job listings and professionals can respond to them.
5. Business Directory
Just like job boards, there is increasing demand of niche business directories on the web. There are some great WordPress business directory plugins which allow you to easily create a business directory.
You can even create web directory that is not limited to businesses alone.
6. Question & Answer Website
Want to create your own version of Yahoo Answers, Stack Exchange, or Quora? With WordPress you can easily create a question and answers site. Combine it with other tools, and you can build yourself a thriving online community of your own.
7. NonProfits and Religious Websites
WordPress is free as in freedom (see our guide why is WordPress free?). This makes it an ideal solution for nonprofit organizations.
With WordPress plugins you can add donate form and raise money by accepting paypal donations. There are some great WordPress themes for churches and nonprofits.
8. Portfolio Websites
Need a place to showcase your work? You can easily add a portfolio to your WordPress site with stunning image galleries, and beautiful sliders. WordPress can be used to provide a very sleek and polished user experience for your portfolio site making it easier for others to browse and learn about your work.
9. Online Communities
WordPress can be used as an online forum using the lightweight bbPress forum. You can even add social features to a WordPress site with plugins like BuddyPress.
10. Coupon Website
Want to earn affiliate commissions from thousands of websites offering special discounts on their products and services? Use WordPress to create a coupon site. It allows you to easily add, manage, and expire coupons. Your users can vote and rate coupons, and it all fits right in your WordPress admin area.
11. Auction Websites
Want to run your own eBay like auctions website? With WordPress, you can create a fully functional auction website. Users can bid online, make payments, and you get to earn by simply providing a platform for your niche industry.
12. Multilingual Websites
You can install WordPress in many languages, but you can also create a multilingual website as well. See how easy it is to create multilingual websites using WordPress.
13. Knowledgebase / Wiki Websites
Want to add a documentation section with a knowledgebase or wiki like articles? WordPress comes with great plugins that quickly turn your website into an easy to browse knowledgebase wiki.
14. Podcasting Websites
WordPress and podcasting go hand in hand. Most popular podcasters on the web are using WordPress for their websites. See our step by step guide on how to start a podcast with WordPress.
15. Niche Affiliate Websites
Want to make a commission by referring your users to products and services? Here are the best affiliate marketing tools and plugins available for WordPress. These tools will boost your affiliate earnings and make things a lot more easier.
16. Photography Websites
Are you a professional or amateur photographer? Want to share your family vacation photos? With WordPress and Envira Gallery, you can create astonishingly beautiful photography websites. You can add galleries, albums, titles, captions, lightbox popups, slideshows, and the bells and whistles.
There are also tons of photography templates available for WordPress.
17. School or College Websites
WordPress powers thousands of schools and college websites around the world. It is safe, secure, and easy to manage. See our list of popular universities that are using WordPress.
18. Private Blogs
Want to keep your WordPress blog to yourself? See how easily you can make your WordPress blog completely private. Run team projects, diaries, or whatever you want in a safe environment away from prying eyes.
19. Family Blogs
With built in media and user management system, WordPress is perfect to create small family websites. Create beautiful wedding websites, upload family photos, or add family gossip. WordPress can provide endless fun for all members of family age 10 and up. See our list of best WordPress themes for family blogs.
We hope this article gave you some ideas about the kind of websites you can create with WordPress. Getting started with WordPress is easier with WPBeginner, see how you can make the most out of WPBeginner’s free learning resources.
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Academic Journal not listed. WordPress can’t be used for it?
That would normally be considered a blog, yes WordPress can be used to create that type of site
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Please can i create a site that can be used for booking using WP ? A link provided with the answer would definitely help. Thanks
Yes you can, you would want to use one of the plugins in our article here: https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/5-best-wordpress-appointment-and-booking-plugins/
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Please i need help with creating an Ecommerce website. Where i can be able to buy and sell products effectively and make reasonable income. Thank you.
Hi Munachimso,
Please take a look at our step by step guide on how to start an online store.
Just a suggestion from a fellow developer. It would be helpful to show the comments thread with collapsed replies. This will allow the user to browse more comments and they can expand the reply/replies to any comment which they are interested in exploring without having to unnecessarily scroll through everything.
Cheers, helpful post as always!
Hello i want to create a website to make money in online , is that possible through word press ? Thank you
Yes man, Just keep posting and posting uunless you have thousands of visiters everyday and they you can earn money by referring, popups and redirection.I hope it helps you.
I want to create a market place website as like amazon.com by wordpress. is it possible? I don’t need all feature of amazon.com. I want to create website myself but I don’t have any idea about coding. Can i create website myself?
Hi Ron,
Please see our article on how to create a marketplace website using WordPress.
Nice info…any body can guide me that how can i create a list website?
Like, email listing type.
You can either code it on your own like, and than or with a plugin…. i would prefer a plugin if you don´t have any coding experiences
I want to know if there is a way that you could create a website that can convert writings on paper to the actual website.
Thanks for the reply to my question. I want you to kindly recommend at least three wordpress theme for the kind of website I am talking about – The website is an entertainment news website.It will have a envira gallery plugin..,buddypress plugin and awpcp plugin. Your recommendation will be highly regarded. Thanks once again-!
Please can i create a wordpress site with a photo gallery plugin,buddypress plugin and classified ads plugin installed all at once; and if yes x what theme is suitable for the website?
Hi Emmanuel,
Yes you can use these plugins together. The choice of theme depends on what kind of websites you want to build, and your own design preferences. Please see our guide on how to choose a WordPress theme to learn more.
Simply put!
WordPress can be used to create almost every website.
I want to create job and service advertisements website that will allow users to upload pictures and short videos in there dashboard which can be viewed when published. Can I use wp job manager, envira gallery and bbpress plugins to build the website? Please reply me ASAP and if no what is the best option available for such a website. Thanks
please I want to make a social network site like whatsapp
To be frank, i’m overly confused…i’ve been trying to create a personal blog via wordpress…but it hasn’t been going well…..kindly help me out with a plausible info.
I want to create a dating website which plugin will be best for me thanks.
hi. what about news portals? thank you
please i want to build a professional sport anlysis, tips and review site what plugins will be best for this
Hey Matthew,
Please take a look at our list of essential WordPress plugins. Review the list and install the plugins you think you will need.
You will probably also need plugins that can handle functionality specific to your website’s niche. For that you can search WordPress plugin directory. Also check our beginner’s guide on how to choose the best WordPress plugin.
Very informative article. Thanks for sharing..
Sir I Want to Make News Site Which Theme Will Be better .
I Am In Big Confusion
I would like to use the wordpress to put all actives in my area,so that people would know what happening in that area.
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I have entered the wpbeginner log in and I like to know the best theme for my site, which I know a lot about this products. At the moment im using Memorable theme and is not complete. Any suggestion thanks
I have just signed up for the basic blog website but later want a website that can do more than this. I want to create a community and post videos and eventually run an online business. Can I update my website. What would I update it to?
Yes you surely can update your website. Here’s your solution:
1. To create community: Try BuddyPress
2. For Video Solutions: Lots of plugins there or search for theme that does that in a site like ThemeForest.
3. For Online Solutions: For WordPress, the one & only WooCommerce
Good Luck!
It’s a very helpful tutorial for every people thanks for sharing with us.
I would like to build a document distribution and information sharing websit for our organization. What type of website sutable for me.
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How possible is it to create a 100% totally free website for calls. I mean a website for making calls. Can someone throw a little light on this please?
Is there a wordpress template/plugin for surveys?
I want to create a blog that offers Clickbank affiliate products. Can anyone suggest a suitable WP theme for this please?
Hi! – I recently had a website for interactive learning with video, audio and question forms that users could answer online. The problem was all of those things used Flash. Can a WordPress site be set up with plugins which will do all of those things with HTML 5?
That’s cool list
Event Websites should be listed- they are so popular lately!
We also use WordPress for event websites over at EventAppi.
You can either build in event management/registration into your business website OR many times people build an entire website just for conferences, events, etc. WordPress is the best way to build event websites in our mind!
Hi, we are looking at creating a new website for my sailing club and wondered if there is a plugin that allows you to manage it members. We would want to be able to edit type of membership, enter people details etc. Any ideas on a plugin?
There are several membership plugins for WordPress which can do that.
Good list but which template can I use for student/teacher interactive environment?
Take a look at our guide, Selecting the perfect WordPress theme – 9 things you should consider.
This is amazing ideas and templates I will use one of those ,I wanna to create my own website