10 Most Successful Websites that use WordPress.org

Please note  that this article is about WordPress.org and not wordpress.com .In this article, i’ll show you the most successful and popular websites that choose wordpress.org to be apart of their success.Admit it, wordpress is the Best CMS, widely used by many top companies and brands. WordPress is a powerful PHP web software that can be used to create :Websites, Blogs, Ecommerce etc  With wordpress you are not limited with nothing. As far as your imagination stretched, the sky is the limit with wordpress.

As you may know already this website is running wordpress, not quite popular yet. I’ll share some interesting facts about WordPress before i list the most popular websites that use wordpress  

10 Interesting facts about WordPress.org

What is wordpress?

WordPress is a free open source blogging software  and dynamic content  management   system  (CMS ) Based on PHP and MySql

20% of The Web Runs WordPress

over 76 million Websites are running WordPress globally

As of 2011, 14.7% Of the top 1,000,000 Websites are powered by wordpress

There are over 100 Different WordPress Releases versions

400 million people view more than 3.6 billion page per month

WordPress is the 72th Most Popular website in the world

22 of every 100 new domains  create using wordpress in the USA

WordPress streams more than 37 million search per month

In the first week of 2012, over 900,000 YouTube videos are embed within wordpress

Most popular wordpress plugin based on downloads

Akismet

Contact Form 7

Google XML Sitemaps

Now that you know the facts and statistics of wordpress, you are now convinced that this is a robust and multifunctional software which can be implemented  into anything where your creativity matters .

To begin with the list of Most Successful Websites that use WordPress.org.

MOST SUCCESSFUL WEBSITES THAT USE WORDPRESS.ORG

1 TechCrunch

TechCrunch, founded on June 11, 2005, is a weblog dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing new Internet products and companies. In addition to covering new companies, we profile existing companies that are making an impact (commercial and/or cultural) on the new web space.

2 BBC America

Presenting Britain’s best shows and groundbreaking American originals, BBC America is home to brilliant television from both sides of the pond.

3 PlayStation.Blog

Another WordPress.org Successful blog. The Playstation Blog.

 

4 Forbes Blogs

WordPress is a business orientated blog that  mainly discusses lives of billionaires . This is a also a popular wordpress.org blog 

 

5 eBay Inc

Ebay blog is also powered by wordpress.org and is among the most popular wordpress.org sites

6 The Wall Street Journal Law Blog

WSJ.com on law and business and the business of law is 6th in the list of Most Successful Websites that use WordPress.org

7 LinkedIn

Linkedln is a popular social media website that connect professional people in special occasion .It has over 200 million active users .The Blog is powered by WordPress.org and is also among the Most Successful Websites that uses WordPress.org

8 ESPN Product Blog

This is the digitail and print section of ESPN. Created by wordpress.org With a simple wordpress.org default theme

9 Flickr

Flickr is almost certain the  best Photo online management and sharing web application online

10 The Mozilla Blog

Mozilla FireFox browser has a blog, and this blog is powered by wordpress.org.Mozilla is the 138th most popular site visited in the world.

These are the list Most Successful Websites that use WordPress.org