January 6, 2011 Lately a lot of high profile names have been building their sites with WordPress. No wonder, with the flexibility and popularity of this wonderful platform. Truly, this is a community on rise, and the list that follows comprises only a few big fish that have found that WordPress works. For anyone who has a WordPress site or wonders if you should have one, we hope these samples inspire.
Martha Stewart
Margaret Cho
The Lance Armstrong Foundation
Giada De Laurentiis
Kobe Bryant
New York Times Blogs
Sigur Ros
Jay-Z
Harvard Gazette
Pepsi Refresh Project
TechCrunch
Miley Cyrus
Mashable
Russel Brand
Terrell Owens
John Grisham
Sylvester Stallone
Ryan Seacrest
CNN Politics
The Mozilla Blog
Featured Plugin - Start your own Quora / StackOverflow / Yahoo Q&A site
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Featured Plugin - Start Your Own Powerful Membership Site
If you're thinking about starting a paid, or just private, membership site then this is truly the plugin you've been looking for. Easy to use, massively configurable and ready to go out of the box!
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Featured Plugin - Turn any WordPress page into a fully featured wiki!
To get a wiki up and running you used to need to install Mediawiki and toil away for days configuring it... not any more! This plugin gives you *all* the functionality you want from a wiki, in WordPress!!!
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Featured Plugin - Send beautiful html email newsletters, from WordPress!
Now there's no need to pay for a third party service to sign up, manage and send beautiful email newsletters to your subscriber base - this plugin has got the lot.
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Featured Plugin - Every great SEO tweak you need, in one snazzy bundle
Fully integrated with the SEOMoz API, complete with automatic links, sitemaps and SEO optimization of your WordPress setup - this is the only plugin you need to help you rank your site number 1 on Google - nothing else compares.
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Featured Plugin - Add bottom corner (or anywhere else) chat to your site
No javascript required, no third part chat engine, just fully featured chat right in your own database on your own WP sites - couldn't be easier.
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Featured Plugin - Open an Online Store with MarketPress
Out of all the WordPress ecommerce plugins available, this has got to be the winner - easy to configure, powerful functionality, multiple gateways and more. A simply brilliant plugin!
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Featured Plugin - Easily integrate your WordPress site with Facebook
Would you like to add Facebook comments, registration, 'Like' buttons and autoposting to your WP site? Well, The Ultimate Facebook plugin has got that all covered!
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Featured Plugin - WordPress + Google Maps = Perfect
Simply insert google maps into posts, sidebars and pages - show directions, streetview, provide image overlays and do it all from a simple button and comprehensive widget.
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This is a great list! I love seeing all these high profile sites using WordPress. Smashing Magazine use WordPress as well, which I’m a big fan of :)
This is very helpful to show people what WordPress can do. Now how about another list for Buddypress.
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I’ve been looking for a list of WordPress showcase website! And this list are helpful. Thanks again.
What an awesome list of WordPress sites, they look great!
Nice info. Big concerns are too using this application .I think the day is not so far , maximum number of websites will be using this application .Previously , WordPress was used as blogging application .Now the day has been changed .It has been using as CMS too .As people have so user friendly and SEO ready content management system , this is certain that the usage of the application will increase gradually.
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