Best WordPress Sites
October 14th, 2006 Filed in: WordPress Jump to commentsMost of you should know that this site is powered by WordPress, as a blogging and CMS tool. If you are looking for a CMS or a new web tool for your projects, I strongly recommend WordPress to you. WordPress is a great tool, and best thing is free! Here I have collected some of the best WordPress sites that I’ve found. Some have good implementation of plugins, yet others have good design theme. Hopefully, these sites will give you better understanding of WordPress’s capabilities and inspiration for your site.
Portfolio
Gallery
Articles
Blog
Do you know or have a good WordPress site?
Please use the comment form below to submit (WordPress only). Simply enter a URL and a brief description.
Updates
Here are more WordPress sites I found through Best Web Gallery:
October 14th, 2006 at 4:01 pm
My wordpress blog was created for the benefit of our family and friends, so that they could follow our progress when we moved from the UK to France in Aug 2005.
It is now starting to branch out a bit more.
Kind Regards
Racheal
October 14th, 2006 at 4:05 pm
mine? :)
October 14th, 2006 at 5:31 pm
Many thanks for the mention, mate! I was surprised to see fadtastic in the list as it doesn’t really push the barriers graphically like your own site here.
I think this list shows that WordPress blogs aren’t all using the default themes out there.
My suggestion for this list would be www.attitudedesign.co.uk.
Andy.
fadmin.
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October 15th, 2006 at 10:15 am
WordPress for sure is a very powerful tool. I like to use it, too. But i think it is the wrong way to look at the design of a website and say:”Wow, Wordpress is amazing!”
Cause the website could look the same even if it was built on another CMS.
Maybe you could mention some features of WordPress so the guys that haven’t seen it yet can imagine.
I really like the fact that mod-rewrite is already implemented in the system.
October 15th, 2006 at 1:35 pm
hm.. I like http://www.larissameek.com/
October 15th, 2006 at 8:06 pm
Great list Nick…lol I guess I’m not supposed to go for the content, seeing that almost half isn’t in English…just the design. =)
October 15th, 2006 at 8:11 pm
P.S. - I found another WP site I liked… http://www.ndesign-studio.com/
October 15th, 2006 at 10:01 pm
Must be one of those weekends…I just got done porting my site from Movable Type to Wordpress. Besides the lack of good documentation and way too many ways to do the same thing in PHP, I’ve enjoyed the change — much easier to manage. Check it out.
October 15th, 2006 at 10:52 pm
Hey, thanks for the love! Although, I feel my portfolio section is the weakest of my site. Still nice to get noticed for pushing the WP boundaries in that department. So thank you! I actually have a lot in store (or rather, in mind) the next time I overhaul my site and the portfolio section in particular with get a lot of attention.
October 16th, 2006 at 1:59 am
Very nice choices and thanks for the mention! You forgot to add your own site to this lovely list!
October 16th, 2006 at 8:46 am
I have a question :
do you use worldpress to display your portfolio ?
October 16th, 2006 at 11:20 am
I like this WP theme. Is a blog/portfolio of my friend.
http://project47.viscountbox.com/
Your WP gallery is really nice, I loved the Matt Brett layout.
October 16th, 2006 at 1:18 pm
i have this interested blog about marijuana.
check it out , looks cool.
http://relax.peety-passion.com
October 16th, 2006 at 1:21 pm
great blog with humor , news , facts and beeing relaxed
http://peety-passion.com
October 16th, 2006 at 1:23 pm
A wonderfull graphic designer makes also wordpress themes.
http://milo.peety-passion.com
October 16th, 2006 at 2:15 pm
This is one is pretty nice: http://www.binarymoon.co.uk/
October 18th, 2006 at 11:19 pm
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October 19th, 2006 at 7:07 am
We’re a small webdesign company located in Amsterdam, I just launched our new design blog today, have a look!
October 20th, 2006 at 11:19 am
A gamer’s community with a weekly podcast!
October 21st, 2006 at 8:05 pm
Oh..good choices.
Thank you.
Your site is very beautiful.
October 24th, 2006 at 4:20 am
I use WordPress too (what a wonder) and I had several problems on two systems but now the work and work and work. Thanks WordPress
October 26th, 2006 at 7:44 am
how about this one?
http://towardsbetterliving.com/
October 26th, 2006 at 9:39 am
Very good choices!
I think we have another nice examples, but these are very good looking wordpress sites =)
October 28th, 2006 at 3:12 am
I like the new design of this new blog.
October 29th, 2006 at 5:17 pm
Very good choices.
October 31st, 2006 at 2:20 pm
Wordpress powered: www.rac1.org
Second largest Catalan radio station.
Several plugins specially designed for this project, Ajax and direct reading from Google Calendar: http://www.rac1.org/index.php?page_id=2
Cheers!
November 4th, 2006 at 2:21 am
Your blog is very beautiful! can i request my blog-design too !?
November 4th, 2006 at 9:15 am
A micro blog from Nuragic Land.
November 15th, 2006 at 9:02 am
I think this is a great idea as i am a wordpress user myself. I can understand the frustration trying to build a site on wordpress CMS, you need a good view at some of the best sites to get inspiration. Well done Nick i think you’re doing a great job to help designers and people who like the web. Keep it up.
Jay
November 16th, 2006 at 1:44 am
Hey have a look at www.Uncmmn.com i have been working on it for a few weeks now. I love Wordpress.
November 16th, 2006 at 6:20 am
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November 18th, 2006 at 4:16 pm
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November 19th, 2006 at 7:38 am
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November 27th, 2006 at 6:16 am
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November 28th, 2006 at 8:06 pm
Wordpress based PriveFolio of New Media Designer from Poland - Milosz A. Lodowski
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December 4th, 2006 at 1:49 am
Wordpress is the best, here is a link to my blog. www.louisianathunder.com/blog
December 4th, 2006 at 11:44 am
Ya with lota of plugin,no doubt this is the best and with cms intergated. :P
December 6th, 2006 at 11:30 am
For me, the best blog management is Wordpress. I like and use it.
- www.bjweb.info/vb
- www.bjweb.info/blog
Good post :D
December 7th, 2006 at 1:07 pm
Hello have made a summary list of all shown designs, sorry for that that not all designs will appear.
Tell me what u think about my design.
Will be intersting to know.
Be sure I am not a design and my design is really simple!
December 7th, 2006 at 6:56 pm
Andy of fadtastic.net here. For anyone interested, the fadtastic theme is now available for WordPress.
http://fadtastic.net/theme/
December 8th, 2006 at 11:28 pm
Split Magazine — http://www.split-magazine.com/
Made using WordPress :) I’ve also made another site using WordPress:
Nirali Magazine — http://www.niralimagazine.com/
Hope you find these suitable to add to your post.
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Gadgets Review (in Romanian) - http://www.slickdeals.ro
WordPress made easy! :)
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December 12th, 2006 at 5:02 pm
I just have a Blog Network and i like to work with WordPress.
Look at the blogs, with a “designed by me” theme:
http://www.webtuga.com
http://www.boorlix.com
http://www.tugatronica.com
http://www.tv-nacional.com
http://www.wii-pt.com
December 19th, 2006 at 2:45 pm
paintboy100.wordpress.com
December 19th, 2006 at 3:47 pm
Devlounge is a designer and development resource powered by WP :)
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January 13th, 2007 at 4:05 am
well here is my site http://motech.nationvoice.com/
im currently looking for bloggers if anyone is interested
January 15th, 2007 at 8:25 pm
Hi! Very nice site! Thanks you very much! tDIXbj4rZC
January 17th, 2007 at 7:03 am
Worldpress-The world it’s so little
http://www.worldpress.it
i made it with with wordpress..
January 18th, 2007 at 1:23 am
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January 18th, 2007 at 5:06 pm
And how do you like this one: http://miejsca.org/
January 25th, 2007 at 3:26 am
Best WordPress Sites,i like!
January 26th, 2007 at 10:48 pm
Best website very useful for you.
February 2nd, 2007 at 5:16 pm
i like wordpress. ;)
February 6th, 2007 at 10:05 am
http://www.yuzsekiz.com
Lost tv show blog (in Turkish)
February 9th, 2007 at 7:21 pm
photgraphy site:
http://www.flickrville.com
February 10th, 2007 at 3:02 pm
http://www.seemsiyah.com
February 17th, 2007 at 7:06 pm
Forever Wordpress . Wonderful Script :)
February 18th, 2007 at 4:15 am
http://ikram-zidame.com
a normal blog of a 16 year old dude from malaysia..
February 18th, 2007 at 4:54 pm
this one www.crtasarim.com
February 19th, 2007 at 11:37 am
Thats an amazing collections of quality WordPress sites, i’m amaze how nice those are and what they can do to wordpress. Thanks for sharing this resources.
February 21st, 2007 at 2:38 pm
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February 22nd, 2007 at 7:56 am
Blog about careers you can choose from. (in Finnish)
March 1st, 2007 at 2:47 pm
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March 11th, 2007 at 8:16 am
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March 13th, 2007 at 6:48 pm
Bad news
March 14th, 2007 at 9:03 am
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March 16th, 2007 at 5:04 pm
This great looking website is built using Wordpress, and follows garden designer Tiggy Salt’s progress as she builds a courtyard garden for this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show in May.
March 20th, 2007 at 7:52 am
We have just launched our new website inventivadvertising.com, which uses Wordpress 2.1 as a backend engine. I think wordpress in an incredibly powerful and friendly CMS engine — check out this website, it looks nowhere like a standard wordpress site.
March 20th, 2007 at 9:43 am
Sorry, forgot to list te URL: www.cafgivinggarden.org
This great looking website is built using Wordpress, and follows garden designer Tiggy Salt’s progress as she builds a courtyard garden for this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show in May.
March 20th, 2007 at 4:30 pm
it’s small, minimal and with WP!
so long from cologne
March 20th, 2007 at 4:30 pm
it’s small, minimal and with WP!
so long from cologne
http://www.visualarguments.com
March 21st, 2007 at 6:40 am
Great WP theme… i like it :)
March 21st, 2007 at 8:04 am
Forgot to mention PDAExpert (www.pdaexpert.net)
March 23rd, 2007 at 6:11 am
what do you think about this site http://www.poolfilmfest.com/
site is mainly on croatian language
March 26th, 2007 at 1:09 pm
I author a small web design blog that is run on Wordpress - Does this qualify?
March 27th, 2007 at 2:40 pm
IcyGrill.com
I just launched a wordpress site that is like “woot.com” but for videos. What do you think? What should I change.
April 1st, 2007 at 11:53 am
A Casual Game review site. Still new with bugs (as of this writing).
April 1st, 2007 at 11:33 pm
I have a website: Adictum.com, it’s a selection of great videos about music, bands, interviews, learning music and any topics related to music.
April 3rd, 2007 at 8:50 am
Hello! You have beautiful site! Thanks for the currently released WP theme and I hope you’ll share with us your new one soon! Is there a chance for us to see it before 6th of April? I promised my readers to start with new design, for my birthday, and it’s on 6th.. :) They can wait, of course!
Sorry for the offtopic: here is very nicely designed blog: http://www.gizcore.com/
I think you might like it.
Best regards,
Steve
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April 24th, 2007 at 9:31 pm
El mejor theme y el mejor diseñador de toda la red.
http://www.ndesign-studio.com
The Best!!!! great.
greetings from Colombia ;)
April 26th, 2007 at 10:55 pm
they are all great.. each has a unique design.
i like mattbrett’s site! rock0n!..
May 3rd, 2007 at 8:37 am
Thanks for the news and agree with you…
Best Regards
May 3rd, 2007 at 5:45 pm
A lot of people thinks that joomla is the best cms for all and wordpress is only a blogging platform (Which i don’t agree). You can really do amazing sites with it. With it’s worldwide support you can learn anything.
Thanks for the great site examples, wordpress rulez ;)
May 5th, 2007 at 7:47 am
ohhhh, very nice… i will downing it…
May 6th, 2007 at 2:37 am
Here you have Techtear.com a great design running wordpress. Clear, simple and attractive.
May 11th, 2007 at 4:24 pm
higuys!What yourblog powered by?
May 16th, 2007 at 12:06 pm
WP真的很棒！
May 18th, 2007 at 1:25 pm
thanx
May 20th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
i loved the design you have created. Especially the orange border when mouse is over.
May 23rd, 2007 at 6:59 pm
Hello all
How I can change avatar in this forum?
May 24th, 2007 at 2:05 am
I think robotraff is spamming.
June 2nd, 2007 at 5:28 am
i just know the wordpress can be customized to build a good website, great cms engine !
look here, collection of freeware application with wordpress
http://www.onestopfreeware.com
June 3rd, 2007 at 3:19 am
Hijdas, eunuchs, eye piercing tongue cutting rafaees sufis, red light cages shiasm hinduism naga sadhus, eunuch poetry
a spread of wholesome photo blogs.
bollywoods most wanted photographerno1 at wordpress.
June 3rd, 2007 at 11:27 pm
Wow, great post.. I have been with Frostbytehosting.com for over one year now. I started with a simple Shared Hosting Plan but since their support was so good, I now own 3 dedicated servers from them. I think I have tried all other hosts, Godaddy, Hostgator, but their support was lacking and Frostbyte’s was just was too good. I don’t own a Managed Server but honestly, I asked them to install scripts and they did it. With like 15 min turn arounds.. I love this company. But anyway good luck with whoever you choose. Go to http://www.mygamer.com for news on anything related to the gaming industry.
June 11th, 2007 at 12:48 pm
Hello, I just started a new wordpress site … very simple and just based on the spring template. Nothing compared to the ones you have in your site! But you may like it.
Here the link:
http://www.cuisineitalia.com
Andrea.
June 13th, 2007 at 7:15 pm
This is my first WordPress design but I am in the process of designing a new template. My new template is promised to be stupendous:).
June 13th, 2007 at 8:29 pm
Thank you for your site. I have found here much useful information…0
June 16th, 2007 at 5:23 am
Hi, some great wordpress sites here. Here is one which my little brother did for my softfall playground website. Its a wordpress site that looks different from most. I hope you like it.
June 20th, 2007 at 9:27 am
This beautiful site went live a few days ago.
Designed by Firefly Multimedia.
June 21st, 2007 at 2:26 am
HI, I would appreciate some comments on my recently completed wordpress-powered site. Its a magazine site for discussion on architecture.
Five Foot Way Magazine
Adib
June 27th, 2007 at 6:32 pm
This is my blog:
http://www.dinolog.com
July 1st, 2007 at 10:44 pm
All Greetings.
You cannot find the information necessary you?
Then to you here…
Perfumes
See you soon!
July 17th, 2007 at 11:27 am
This is the Prezentit blog in Wordpress, It’s about a new presentation webapp.
http://prezentitblog.com/en
July 30th, 2007 at 3:58 pm
Nice layout. You have some talent!
web development blog
July 30th, 2007 at 5:57 pm
Love the site! The design is amazing. I need to work on my design skills, but help with inspiration is always a good thing. Wordpress is such great tool. I learned a lot when I was working with the design and CSS for my site: http://alotaboutnothing.com/
July 31st, 2007 at 7:51 am
Dogs Can Drive
http://www.dogscandrive.com
Since when could dogs drive?
Dogs Can Drive is a music site driven exclusively by Wordpress with many plugins modified to suit the sites needs.
It showcases emerging artists from around the world, building a database of statistics which show what’s hot and what isn’t simply through user ratings.
Dogs Can Drive challenges you to listen to 5 tracks and not come back again.
August 3rd, 2007 at 1:52 am
This is a great list. This type of list is priceless for the new kid on the block.
Thanks
Vic
August 3rd, 2007 at 5:44 am
Hi Nick,
I’m a great fan of the “Web Gallery”. Always wanted to do one of my own, but couldnt get around doing one. Here’s a site I started up with one of your themes for wordpress. Tweaked few of the elements. Do drop your opinions and suggestions..
August 3rd, 2007 at 10:40 pm
Man, am I glad I found this site.
I’ve been using Joomla on my site for quite a while now and slowly I’ve been starting to hate it. I was a bit sad because I couldn’t decide what to go with, but then I ran into this article. I’m definitely going with WP. Thanks!
August 4th, 2007 at 7:08 am
All Greetings ! ! !
You are not happy your smile? Toothpaste
Here you will find all that could change this …
August 19th, 2007 at 4:34 am
very nice, oh !!!
August 30th, 2007 at 10:19 am
Krivoy Rog Ukraine news site :)
August 30th, 2007 at 2:37 pm
It is a discussion WordPress blog related to The4Cafe site. It is about free discussion in different topics & subjects.
September 7th, 2007 at 6:40 am
My blog is http://www.funatiq.com/ and I hope you will like it. it is wordpress design…
September 7th, 2007 at 5:56 pm
I like The Green Giants. It’s funny, and a fun design I think. The subtle things are what makes it great.
September 8th, 2007 at 4:11 pm
This is my first post
just saying HI
September 15th, 2007 at 9:09 am
Great idea, good choices and great blog.
ciao
September 18th, 2007 at 4:17 pm
Thanks for this very nice site.
October 4th, 2007 at 9:26 pm
I’ve got an Amazon gift certificate burning holes in my pocket,
and I want to get the most bang for my buck.
Enter the Secret Amazon Web Pages:
http://tinyurl.com/38sojf
This is where you’re going to find the “latest sales, rebates, and limited-time offers” from
Amazon, and you can score some pretty deep discounts if you’re a savvy shopper.
Next, there’s the special Sale link. This is open every Friday, and ONLY on Fridays.
You can find the same good discounts here as you would in hidden Deals, although some
Fridays you can really get lucky and make off like an Amazon bandit - I’ve seen discounts
there as low as 75% off sticker price.
October 5th, 2007 at 9:36 am
www.barkhuff.com is public journal for my wife and I.
October 7th, 2007 at 1:27 am
Wordpress blog about Mobile Cell Phones Information Articles, News, SMS Collection.
October 10th, 2007 at 4:34 pm
It is nice article! Thanks, good info!
October 23rd, 2007 at 12:12 pm
I suggest the following site:
http://guatememe.lynksee.com
there are programs, tutorials, e-books, music, topics about design web, pleasantries geeks, sources of design in PhotoShop or Illustrator.
October 25th, 2007 at 5:00 pm
I know theres a few sites out there teaching how to build your own Wordpress theme.. but just from curiosity.. Did you base yours on a theme first and expand/adapt it.. or start from scratch..?
October 29th, 2007 at 4:27 pm
We Recently took a stab at developing our corporate site on wordpress take a look AR Web Consulting.
November 1st, 2007 at 9:03 am
Yes, thanks guys for taking care of this. Much appreciated :)
November 5th, 2007 at 4:38 pm
Great blog and a great article.
November 9th, 2007 at 10:43 am
Thank you very much… I found exactly what I was looking for…Keep up the good work guys!
November 11th, 2007 at 12:58 pm
Wonderful, thank you for sharing this with us.
November 13th, 2007 at 4:31 am
www.jagdreport.com is a german website. You can read news about the hunting scene.
November 14th, 2007 at 9:38 pm
http://www.kymhuynh.com/
Chronicling the journey of funding a dream through Wordpress.
November 15th, 2007 at 3:21 am
This is a site we recently launched. It’s a site about web development by web developers for web developers. http://www.noboxmedia.com
November 15th, 2007 at 3:31 pm
Here’s another Wordpress site: http://www.mickeymarsmagic.com, done for an illusionist.
November 17th, 2007 at 12:24 am
Great sites!But I’m looking for a complete list of wordpress sites out there…anybody knows? http://www.anonsolutions.com
December 1st, 2007 at 7:09 pm
Thankiossi
It’s great
December 1st, 2007 at 10:46 pm
I love the design, really comprehensive collections
December 2nd, 2007 at 7:59 am
Thankiosst
Great!
December 3rd, 2007 at 3:45 am
Well thats an amazing collection. I wish i could do these designs on my own.
Sasha
www.gadgets-news.com
December 6th, 2007 at 4:43 am
lol
thankiossp!
December 10th, 2007 at 10:52 am
Great portfolio of designs. Wordpress is SOOO great! - there are so many plugins its wicked!
December 10th, 2007 at 1:10 pm
I’m using WordPress and Hemingway as a basis for my graphic design website. I’m not a coder, so trying to make it all act exactly as I wanted as a CMS has been a challenge, but it’s about 99% there now…
December 13th, 2007 at 12:03 pm
I wish to thank you for this great collection of beautiful design and content.
December 15th, 2007 at 6:44 am
This website is very nice and colorful too. Its nice to have something to show others where you attend church and to show all the smiling people filled of the goodness of the Lord. You have a wonderful website here. May God rich bless you always.
December 16th, 2007 at 1:41 am
greiytsite!
It’s great
December 16th, 2007 at 6:32 pm
This website is designed to help those who work with adolescents understand the complex issues of an increasingly disenfranchised generation.
December 18th, 2007 at 2:32 am
These are all beautiful Wordpress sites - I enjoyed browsing through them These are all great links…they are all exceptional sites. . I love them. I just wrote an article that lists 180+ resources online for design inspiration and I liked your article so much that I added your link to the article.
Thanks.
Rachel
December 18th, 2007 at 7:15 am
Cool list. It really helped me
December 27th, 2007 at 11:00 pm
Really cool Blog you got here !! check mine its more about fashion, trends and technology, but im a pro-wordpress ;)…
Keep doing some good work and thank you for all your tips…
January 2nd, 2008 at 8:02 am
Appreciate the post.
January 2nd, 2008 at 6:15 pm
I like the Blog sites, too many blog sites are so bland.
January 2nd, 2008 at 7:21 pm
Fantastic web site! Just what the internet needs.
I want to update my drab site (I’ve got the time to do it) - but trying to decide between wordpress and Joomla isn’t easy.
Thanks for the truly inspirational site
January 3rd, 2008 at 11:36 am
best website i’ve ever come accross & I’ve searched many when it comes to creative css designs. & i’ll keep looking at it for updates!!
January 8th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
Nice post. You uncovered alot of very nice blogs.
January 8th, 2008 at 11:58 pm
Hi, You have a great site and the tips and tricks section is a superb resource. I have learnt a few tricks as evident in my blog at