10 Major Websites and Businesses You Didnt Know Were Using WordPress

As I wrote in a previous blog post, WordPress is taking over non eCommerce websites. The reason for this is that it is free to install, scalable and easy to use. Therefore if you want a simple website at a low cost, WordPress is one of, if not the best, way to create one depending on your business or situation. Additionally, if you want a scalable website that can handle a large amount of traffic and heavy customization, WordPress can handle that too as long as you have the right web development team working on your site. Here is a list of 10 major websites and businesses using WordPress that might paint a picture as to how scalable and successful your WordPress website could become.

1) The New Yorker

The New Yorker is one of the largest publications in the US with revenues in the hundreds of millions per year over the last decade. A company this large, that relies heavily on content for its revenue chose WordPress to power its website, demonstrating the scalability of the WordPress platform.

 2) Tech Crunch

Incredibly, techcrunch.com is the 159th most visited site in the United States. Its astonishing that WordPress is the foundation for a site that has grown this fast, which has now become one of the largest tech news sources in the world. They have proven anyone can leverage the WP platform to go well beyond what most people expect from it as far as scaling a website to an enterprise level.

3) Google Ventures

When Google Ventures is using WordPress to power their website you know its a platform you can trust. Google is the king of the Internet, and will be for the foreseeable future. You never know, Trellis could take the crown in a few decades haha.

4) Time Inc

Another major website, Time.com, is the 150th most visited website in the US. They, similar to TechCrunch, have managed to leverage WordPress to scale their website into elite company. The WordPress platform serves as an excellent place for Time to syndicate their diverse content on the web.

5) Beyonce

There are a lot of famous people with websites built with WordPress. Beyonce just seemed like a good choice to add to the top 10 WordPress sites. She is number one on Forbes most powerful celebrities list. Enough said.

6) Pardot

A Salesforce company, Pardot, is an elite marketing automation software. Sales force is a leader in sales and marketing cloud products. The fact that they have trusted WordPress to power the customer facing website of one of their major products shows their trust in the future of the WordPress platform.

7) Fortune Magazine

Who wouldn’t want to be in the Fortune 500? The Fortune 500 magazine WordPress website is a major online resource for looking at the top 500 companies in the United States and much more regarding top companies and business people.

8) The Mavericks

The mavericks are owned by tech billionaire Mark Cuban. If Cuban, probably the most tech savvy NBA owner had his website built on the WordPress platform you know that it is a platform that experienced tech entrepreneurs trust.

9) Vanheusen

The apparel company, Vanheusen, is the nations top dress shirt brand and is recognized around the world as a major brand. Van Heusen chose the WordPress platform because they could customize to fit the design requirements they needed to properly represent their brand online.

10) Inquisitr

The Inquisitr is an internationally recognized news web site with a strong presence in the USA.  It is one of the top 2500 websites in the world. WordPress has allowed the Inquisitr to grow its web presence to globally recognized heights.

 

Conclusion:

WordPress is a great, cost effective tool for beginners and small businesses looking to establish a presence on the web. However, it is also an amazing tool for large companies and businesses that want a scalable CMS platform. WordPress VIP is a service by the founders of WordPress, Automattic that allows you to better scale your WordPress website at an enterprise level. Its time to start taking WordPress very seriously as a platform for new, small, medium, and even large enterprise businesses. In fact, after experimenting with a few  web frameworks (CakePHP, Ruby on Rails), Trellis went back to WordPress because it is easier to manage content and scale for traffic acquisition but also gives us the flexibility we need to customize it to our liking.