20 great corporate websites made with WordPress
If you still need a proof that WordPress can be used to create corporate websites, these websites should convince you. If you think that WordPress shouldn’t be used for this kind of websites, please let me know why in comments.
1. Spotify
2. The picnik blog
3. The Flickr Code blog
4. Network Solutions
5. Samsung Newsroom
6. Verio
7. Jane Monheit
8. Creative Spaces
9. Wilkintie
10. Ecoki
11. Intridea
12. Logo Realty Associates
13. Cow Says Moo media
14. Masato
15. Radium Labs
16. Web Maremma
17. Yuru
18. Flush
19. Wearable Print
20. Fergus Neilson
on one hand, it’s all about the architecture of the coding, something wordpress does well – but in effect the article comes across as a tearing-down of the preconceived notions one has regarding wordpress, namely the ‘templatey’ look your average wordpress site has. interestingly enough, the sites here i think look good are the ones that look nothing like wordpress templates.
great showcase, comes in handy when people start to code sites on top of the WordPress cms
thanks, great post!
I should start working on my wordpress designing skills
Great revenue in there..
Excellent companies uses wordpress for their sites, I totally beleive it can be use for personal and corporative sites, not only blogs
WordPress is growing leaps and bounds as a CMS.
There are, however, some CMS hacks that make site management a bit harder for the client, especially when they aren’t technically minded. Nothing that decent documentation doesn’t fix though.
We recently redesigned our corporate site using WordPress as the CMS. The response has been very positive so far. Several people couldn’t believe it was WordPress. It is FAR more than a blogging platform these days.
http://www.archer-group.com/
Bart
As great as these sites are I have to question your definition of the term “corporate”.
Does somebody know how I can make a website like they show here? I know how to make a website with flash but I wan’t to make a website with html and CMS.
Please contact me!
and what about http://pxforce.com?
but list is great, thank you!
I have to agree with mkjones here: while these are really good looking sites and are making good use of the WordPress platform, I’m not sure we agree on the definition of “corporate”.
Ben.
http://www.frameworx.co.za
good use of wordpress…will try to use for my client
The key to WordPress is using a theme that’s highly customizable. That’s why I’m all about BigFeature.
@Roen:
http://lmgtfy.com/
Great list! WordPress rock!
Does prove that WordPress is great and makes great corporate websites when designed well, and some of these are designed very well, I really like the Creative Spaces website its very imaginative.
Wordpress is great for many small and mid-sized companies – not just blogs.
I have used it on my own company: http://www.comfyrene.com (need a redesign) and on a few clients like http://www.bildedoktor.no
Wordpress is an obvious choice if doing a standard blog or even a minor magazine, but is also flexible enough to be used for most kind of sites.
Systems like Drupal are perhaps better for larger sites, but WordPress does the trick and is easier to implement.
Agree with comments that say WordPress is a great CMS platform.
Would be interested to hear what CMS orientated plug-ins people recommend for WP.
http://www.digobrands.com
I like the 8th and 14th. But all of them are great. viva wordpress, viva designer-daily.
Here’s an interesting one: http://www.knowledgescreen.com/
Is wordpress site search engine friendly ???
These sites are great (although mostly not corporate).
But ecause they have excellent graphic design – not because they use WordPress.
Once one has established that any template can be applied to WordPress (taken as read, I think), the discussion about which CMS is behind the scenes becomes moot.
Nice list for easing the technical decision onto a doubtful client though
I think Corps should not rely on WP for their design, it looks to much like a “blog”, vs a business site.
think Corps should not rely on WP for their design
The company I work for moved to WordPress; it certainly does not look like a “blog”. Like anyone who uses WP will tell you (Chris Coyier repeats this fact many times, just for one), there’s no “WordPress Magic”. It’s just PHP. But the reason to use it as a starting point is that it already includes so many useful functions that lend themselves to dynamic website structure.
Just like using ANY library of code, the idea is to simplify the developer’s job so that he doesn’t have to micro-code every single last function. WordPress provides the handy ones, and a lot of plugin authors provide others.
If I didn’t tell you that our site was WordPress, you’d never know. Looking at the source code might give you a hint, but if you’re looking at the source code you’re not really looking at the site!
http://utechsoft.com
We’re working out a few kinks; some of our choices weren’t that great when it came to making it Search Engine Optimized, for example… and we need to update the main navigation. But all in all I’m quite happy with the results. And WordPress has definitely been an asset to the project.
Ironically– now that we’ve got the CMS/static portion up and running… we’re thinking of adding a blog to it. !!
!!
Greg
We use it for our corporate website http://www.zooproperty.com a real estate system built for web developers and it really makes a great CMS (with some tweaking of course)
Wordpress is fastest growing CMS nowadays.
Very good work you have done here i would like to read more post by the admin thanks.
and how to find out, which theme was used there at the beginning? No. 8 is just awesome.
I love the collection. Most of them are mainly base off of typography which I am trying to master at the momment haha.
You can have your site look like just about anything using WP. I’ve used it for numerous client sites, the question of using WP shouldn’t be regarding the look…. you can have your site look like just about anything you can code(with WP it’s really very simple – Jeffrey Way’s “PSD -> HTML -> WP” screencasts come to mind). The real question comes in with maintenance, what’s best for the client to update with? What’s easiest for them to use once you’ve stepped out of the picture.
I just started one a few months ago. Its a photo blog about New Orleans Homes. Just getting started and wanted to post about neigborhoods thru photos that I have taken. Eric
This is really good article on Corporate Design, have mention on my blog
How do you know its wordpress?
Masato is the best!
Well we don’t need any proof of WordPress wonders and we deal with WordPress sites itself.
Hence our own website: http://www.shrikrishnatechnologies.com which is neatly done is in WordPress.
Its also a corporate website.
Regards,
Shri