40 WordPress-Powered Websites With Awesome Designs
Tweet The days of WordPress being used solely as a blogging platform are over. WordPress has powered some of the coolest sites on the internet, and this post is an example of 40 great ones.
I design wordpress blogs for a living, so I am always on the lookout to see what others are doing in my line of work – and I’m impressed daily. This post covers designs ranging from the awesome minimalism that we love here on SpyreStudios, portfolio designs, blog designs, showcase sites and full blown content driven sites. As you can see from the sites below, WordPress gives you the ability to create just about any type of site you’d like – and do it with awesome style!
Travelled Blog ↓
Quartel Design ↓
Website Bakery ↓
Takashi Irie ↓
Freehand Futurist ↓
The Many Faces of… ↓
Constantia Strasbourg Neudorf ↓
Mrcthms ↓
Theme Garden ↓
Fabrica De Caricaturas ↓
Aaron Irizarry ↓
David Hellmann ↓
The Design Buzz ↓
Nanyate ↓
Kazuhide Fukuyama ↓
UpThemes ↓
Ink Byte ↓
Orange Apple ↓
Run Addicts ↓
Mail Bakery ↓
Web Is Love ↓
Joystick Generals ↓
theEvnt ↓
Awesem ↓
Fully Illustrated ↓
Blissfully Aware ↓
Design Vetica ↓
Acosmin ↓
Designwise ↓
Fresh01 ↓
Carol Rivello ↓
Hurco ↓
Sob Controllers ↓
Monday By Noon ↓
Ryan Clark Merrill ↓
Moonwalk Films ↓
Plain Green 10 ↓
TypeFaces ↓
BrainSpace ↓
Morphix Blog ↓
Your Turn To Talk
If you think we’ve missed some great WordPress-powered websites with killer designs, don’t hesitate to let us know in the comments. I’m always on the hunt for cool designs for inspiration, so your input is very much appreciated :)
About the author:
Mike Smith releases wordpress themes on a regular basis and is also a blog designer at Guerrilla.
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April 21st, 2010
I might as well take the chance to show off my own original site design which I run on WordPress, since you offered :)
April 21st, 2010
Nice round-up thanks for the include!
April 21st, 2010
Beautiful collection Mike! It’s amazing to see how powerful WP has become in the past few years.
And yes, I will add one to the list that I recently designed :) -
HottieGuitars.com
April 21st, 2010
I love wordpress, it is just so versatile isn’t it!
There are some cracking designs in the list I love the many faces of Alan Rickman site.
With the right amount of imagination, and a great design you certainly can produce a fantastic site!
April 21st, 2010
Very nice collection of sites indeed. Thank you very much for including ThemeGarden!
April 21st, 2010
Thrilled to have Freehand Futurist included on one of my favorite design blogs. Fantastic round-up!
April 21st, 2010
Check out TopGunDay.com, if not for the design, then do it for Goose! Top Gun Day is coming up on May 13th!
April 21st, 2010
Really wish I would have gotten this post about a week ago as I was needing some inspiration for my redesigned site. But still good for upcoming projects!
April 21st, 2010
Simply awesome designs. Loved it. Its good WordPress is turning out to be more of a CMS rather than just a blog.
April 21st, 2010
Wow, great collection.
April 21st, 2010
I Suppose I will submit my own as well..why not right? I really like Fully Illustrated BTW.
Here’s mine: http://www.jesserandgd.com
Keep the good lists flowing!
April 21st, 2010
Hey Mike, Awesome list here, but you missed mine ;) http://www.flickthis.tv
April 21st, 2010
Awesome list of WordPress designs. Thanks for mentioning Design Vetica
April 22nd, 2010
Thanks for all of the comments everyone and for the added links to the list. Some good ones in the comments, hopefully the readers are checking them out.
April 22nd, 2010
Nice list! I wish I could’ve made it though!
April 22nd, 2010
Wonderful list, but don’t miss http://www.gruppomodulo.it!
April 22nd, 2010
Wow great list! i made one last week with 20 beatiful example of wordpress-powered websites and another one today.
If you want you can take a look!
April 22nd, 2010
Really nice selection! Love the Takashi Irie’s one
April 22nd, 2010
This is a great list. Thanks for listing my site!
April 22nd, 2010
Some really nice examples – I’m always evangelising WP as more than a blog platform, especially with the upcoming release of 3.0. You missed my site off the list, though ;)
April 22nd, 2010
I really like the vTravelled blog designed by @johnonolan.
You can also take a look at http://wave-hosting.co.uk
April 22nd, 2010
Great examples! I think you should have included http://blog.firedepartment.org/jonas but I am somewhat partial!
April 22nd, 2010
Nice List. May I add one? 100% wordpress driven : http://www.hiddenspringsna.com – This one also shows off e-commerce in wordpress.
April 22nd, 2010
Thanks for adding my website in the list :D
April 22nd, 2010
i just love the Job they did on the vTravelled Blog :D
April 22nd, 2010
Great List! Check it http://bloghelpr.us/ It runs on WP too.
April 22nd, 2010
thats really terrific. powerful combination of wordpress and webdesign. thanks for share
April 22nd, 2010
Awesome and inspiring! Let’s get some Drupal sites in here that are this sexy and I’ll be all set. ;-)
April 23rd, 2010
a lot of great sites. thanks for show my page.
April 23rd, 2010
We did http://www.resoluut.com also in WordPress! It rocks!
April 23rd, 2010
Thanks for the include (www.awesem.co.uk) – some great looking sites in that list!
April 23rd, 2010
Hey, these are great! especially the rickmans and design buzz, lots of others too!
April 23rd, 2010
Wow! thanks for the mention :) there are some awesome sites on this list so I’m very honoured to be a part of it!
April 24th, 2010
THat’s a nice showcase of WordPress designs! Thanks for sharing and hope to see more!
April 24th, 2010
Thank you! It’s such a great honor to be listed alongside the other excellent and inspirational WordPress website designs.
April 26th, 2010
Really nice list. Love the flexibility of WordPress, and you guys have really shown that off here.
The Alan Rickman site might be my favorite for immediate response. Very original.
I’ll throw in a similar post I did too 18 Beautiful Websites built with WordPress
April 26th, 2010
Thanks, nice collection of designs
April 27th, 2010
awesome sites, im planning to do something with wordpress for the blog in my store http://www.cosasperuanas.com , great job.
April 29th, 2010
Some great sites here, with some awesome designs, thanks for putting this collection together.
April 30th, 2010
Thanks for including UpThemes! I certainly appreciate the props.
May 17th, 2010
Thanks for mentioning MailBakery
May 17th, 2010
Nice collection. The designs are awesome and some of these are so customized.. What do you think about our website? Not that artistically appealing though haha! :)
May 26th, 2010
Loved the collection. Although, I have known most of the websites.
Would love to see mine next year,
http://www.vinodsobale.com/
Cheers,
vinod
July 21st, 2010
Thanks for putting this list together. It’s a nice list, but I can see your preferred design sensibility. I think I bookmarked your post some time ago and just found myself going back to it now. Good to see it’s gotten a lot of comments. By the way, my own site’s based on wordpress with the posts formatted on the old blogger theme.
July 23rd, 2010
Great collection! I especially enjoyed Carol Rivello’s website.
Both my portfolio websites are done in WordPress. Wouldn’t use anything else!
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