Due to the flexibility of its framework, WordPress is the most popular website building application in the world for fully functional Content Management System (CMS) websites.  Over 14% of the 1,000,000 biggest websites in the world use WordPress. This figure is growing fast – just see Google Trends here.

Many of the world’s biggest and most successful web-based businesses (eBay*, Yahoo*, Flickr*), companies (Sony*, Samsung*, Ford*), universities (Harvard*, MIT*), news networks (CNN*, NY Times*) and brands (KrispyKreme*, Ben and Jerry’s*), have chosen WordPress for all the great features it has to offer.

* To see for yourself that these companies are using WordPress…

… just follow these links to their WordPress sites, right click on the page and select “View page source / source code”.  Search the text for “wp-” (CTRL+F to find/search text and enter “wp-”) and you will see the WordPress file structures (e.g. /wp-content/, /wp-themes, etc) spread through their source code, just as you will for this website.

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Famous WordPress Users

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• 10 Downing Street – Prime Minister’s Office.

  That’s right! And WordPress is not just used by Dave, but by loads of governmental departments and political bodies around the world.
  

  

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• Stephen Fry

  He’s a pretty smart chap, he heralded Twitter’s rising star and now he’s a big fan of WordPress.
  

  

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• William and Kate’s Royal Wedding Website

  We all know Kate has style and great taste, so when it came to their website, what else would she choose but WordPress.
  

  

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• Top Gear

  As Jezza himself would say “If you’re looking for a slick, smooth ride, high speeds and loads of power, WordPress… is the the best engine… in the world!”
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• Harvard

  They’re a pretty smart bunch at Harvard and if WordPress is good enough for them…
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Tech Brands

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• Ebay Ink

• Yahoo!

• Adobe“

• Spotify

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News Sites

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• Wall Street Journal

• CNN

• New York Times

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Other Brands, Companies and Famous Users

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Ford

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WordPress is web software for creating beautiful, effective and search engine friendly websites, blogs and content management systems. It is a powerful open source web development tool and publishing platform run on the most universally popular database scripts, PHP and MySQL. It has a powerful but highly intuitive and user friendly Content Management System (CMS) and over 6000 plugins and counting, plus an almost endless range of template themes.

These features together give WordPress users almost limitless possibilities to add features, functionality and designs to their site and huge potential to enhance and grow their online business.

Rapid Growth in Popularity

WordPress is used by over 14% of the 1,000,000 biggest websites as of May 2011, but this figure is rapidly growing. WordPress is fast becoming the most widely used platform in the world for web design and development – just see the meteroic rise in its popularity here on Google Trends.  Also, see here how quickly it has overtaken Joomla and Drupal as the most popular content management system.

The core software is built by hundreds of community volunteers, and when you’re ready for more there are thousands of plugins and themes available to transform your site into almost anything you can imagine. Over 25 million people have chosen WordPress to power the place on the web they call “home” —  join the family!

Who uses WordPress?

Everyone loves WordPress, from solo bloggers, to huge corporations like Sony and Ford, with everything in between.  For more information about some of the higher profile organisations who use WordPress, read this article.