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40 WordPress-Powered Websites With Awesome Designs

April 21, 2010 by Mike Smith 52 Comments

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 ↓

Travelled Blog

Quartel Design ↓

Quartel Design

Website Bakery ↓

Website Bakery

Takashi Irie ↓

Takashi Irie

Freehand Futurist ↓

Freehand Futurist

The Many Faces of… ↓

The Many Faces of

Constantia Strasbourg Neudorf ↓

constantia strasbourg neudorf

Mrcthms ↓

Mrcthms

Theme Garden ↓

Theme Garden

Fabrica De Caricaturas ↓

fabrica de caricaturas

Aaron Irizarry ↓

Aaron Irizarry

David Hellmann ↓

David Hellmann

The Design Buzz ↓

The Design Buzz

Nanyate ↓

Nanyate

Kazuhide Fukuyama ↓

kazuhide fukuyama

UpThemes ↓

UpThemes

Ink Byte ↓

Ink Byte

Orange Apple ↓

Orange Apple

Run Addicts ↓

Run Addicts

Mail Bakery ↓

Mail Bakery

Web Is Love ↓

Web Is Love

Joystick Generals ↓

Joystick Generals

theEvnt ↓

theEvnt

Awesem ↓

Awesem

Fully Illustrated ↓

Fully Illustrated

Blissfully Aware ↓

Blissfully Aware

Design Vetica ↓

Design Vetica

Acosmin ↓

Acosmin

Designwise ↓

Designwise

Fresh01 ↓

Fresh01

Carol Rivello ↓

Carol Rivello

Hurco ↓

Hurco

Sob Controllers ↓

Sob Controllers

Monday By Noon ↓

Monday By Noon

Ryan Clark Merrill ↓

Ryan Merrill

Moonwalk Films ↓

Moonwalk Films

Plain Green 10 ↓

Plain Green

TypeFaces ↓

TypeFaces

BrainSpace ↓

brainspace

Morphix Blog ↓

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 :)

Author: Mike Smith

Mike Smith writes a freelance blog on a regular basis and is also a blog designer at Guerrilla.

Filed Under: Design, Inspirational, Showcase, WordPress

Comments

  1. gillico says

    April 21, 2010 at 6:12 pm

    I might as well take the chance to show off my own original site design which I run on WordPress, since you offered :)

  2. Aaron Irizarry says

    April 21, 2010 at 6:18 pm

    Nice round-up thanks for the include!

  3. Josh Hemsley says

    April 21, 2010 at 6:21 pm

    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

  4. Clear Blue Designs says

    April 21, 2010 at 6:23 pm

    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!

  5. Jason Schuller says

    April 21, 2010 at 6:44 pm

    Very nice collection of sites indeed. Thank you very much for including ThemeGarden!

  6. Morgan Finley says

    April 21, 2010 at 7:04 pm

    Thrilled to have Freehand Futurist included on one of my favorite design blogs. Fantastic round-up!

  7. Iceman says

    April 21, 2010 at 7:05 pm

    Check out TopGunDay.com, if not for the design, then do it for Goose! Top Gun Day is coming up on May 13th!

  8. Derrick Workman says

    April 21, 2010 at 8:34 pm

    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!

  9. Webanddesigners says

    April 21, 2010 at 9:08 pm

    Simply awesome designs. Loved it. Its good WordPress is turning out to be more of a CMS rather than just a blog.

  10. inspirationfeed says

    April 21, 2010 at 9:31 pm

    Wow, great collection.

  11. JDRand says

    April 21, 2010 at 9:35 pm

    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!

  12. david silva says

    April 21, 2010 at 9:40 pm

    Hey Mike, Awesome list here, but you missed mine ;) http://www.flickthis.tv

  13. David Kim says

    April 21, 2010 at 9:44 pm

    Awesome list of WordPress designs. Thanks for mentioning Design Vetica

  14. Mike Smith says

    April 22, 2010 at 12:36 am

    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.

  15. Rodney Keeling says

    April 22, 2010 at 3:08 am

    Nice list! I wish I could’ve made it though!

  16. Luca says

    April 22, 2010 at 3:47 am

    Wonderful list, but don’t miss http://www.gruppomodulo.it!

  17. Federico says

    April 22, 2010 at 4:45 am

    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!

  18. Mar says

    April 22, 2010 at 6:53 am

    Really nice selection! Love the Takashi Irie’s one

  19. Takashi Irie says

    April 22, 2010 at 6:59 am

    This is a great list. Thanks for listing my site!

  20. Jono Alderson says

    April 22, 2010 at 7:59 am

    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 ;)

  21. welshstew says

    April 22, 2010 at 8:27 am

    I really like the vTravelled blog designed by @johnonolan.
    You can also take a look at http://wave-hosting.co.uk

  22. Joe Hackman says

    April 22, 2010 at 8:31 am

    Great examples! I think you should have included http://blog.firedepartment.org/jonas but I am somewhat partial!

  23. Tyler says

    April 22, 2010 at 8:35 am

    Nice List. May I add one? 100% wordpress driven : http://www.hiddenspringsna.com – This one also shows off e-commerce in wordpress.

  24. acosmin says

    April 22, 2010 at 10:11 am

    Thanks for adding my website in the list :D

  25. Hannes says

    April 22, 2010 at 10:25 am

    i just love the Job they did on the vTravelled Blog :D

  26. Guillermo says

    April 22, 2010 at 11:01 am

    Great List! Check it http://bloghelpr.us/ It runs on WP too.

  27. lava360blog says

    April 22, 2010 at 2:54 pm

    thats really terrific. powerful combination of wordpress and webdesign. thanks for share

  28. TheAL says

    April 22, 2010 at 4:56 pm

    Awesome and inspiring! Let’s get some Drupal sites in here that are this sexy and I’ll be all set. ;-)

  29. David Hellmann says

    April 23, 2010 at 3:59 am

    a lot of great sites. thanks for show my page.

  30. Harm Wimmenhove says

    April 23, 2010 at 4:51 am

    We did http://www.resoluut.com also in WordPress! It rocks!

  31. mynameisorman says

    April 23, 2010 at 8:19 am

    Thanks for the include (www.awesem.co.uk) – some great looking sites in that list!

  32. sean farrell says

    April 23, 2010 at 10:37 am

    Hey, these are great! especially the rickmans and design buzz, lots of others too!

  33. Marc Thomas says

    April 23, 2010 at 5:39 pm

    Wow! thanks for the mention :) there are some awesome sites on this list so I’m very honoured to be a part of it!

  34. Bart - Logo Design Manchester says

    April 24, 2010 at 12:18 pm

    THat’s a nice showcase of WordPress designs! Thanks for sharing and hope to see more!

  35. kim says

    April 24, 2010 at 12:49 pm

    Thank you! It’s such a great honor to be listed alongside the other excellent and inspirational WordPress website designs.

  36. Brad says

    April 26, 2010 at 11:34 am

    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

  37. Flasher says

    April 26, 2010 at 6:36 pm

    Thanks, nice collection of designs

  38. Ivan Rojas says

    April 27, 2010 at 10:25 am

    awesome sites, im planning to do something with wordpress for the blog in my store http://www.cosasperuanas.com , great job.

  39. Lee Fuller says

    April 29, 2010 at 1:44 pm

    Some great sites here, with some awesome designs, thanks for putting this collection together.

  40. Chris Wallace says

    April 30, 2010 at 11:37 pm

    Thanks for including UpThemes! I certainly appreciate the props.

  41. Steve says

    May 17, 2010 at 7:35 am

    Thanks for mentioning MailBakery

  42. Sumeet Chawla says

    May 17, 2010 at 4:54 pm

    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! :)

  43. vinod says

    May 26, 2010 at 7:39 am

    Loved the collection. Although, I have known most of the websites.
    Would love to see mine next year,

    http://www.vinodsobale.com/

    Cheers,
    vinod

  44. Ed says

    July 21, 2010 at 7:47 pm

    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.

  45. Caroline says

    July 23, 2010 at 1:11 pm

    Great collection! I especially enjoyed Carol Rivello’s website.

    Both my portfolio websites are done in WordPress. Wouldn’t use anything else!

  46. Versatigon says

    October 7, 2010 at 7:53 pm

    I like both Monday by Noon and this website user friendly interface…

  47. Jocuri says

    February 14, 2011 at 9:56 pm

    Thanks for sharing. Great job.

  48. daus says

    March 5, 2011 at 3:37 am

    what such a great post ! thanks for sharing ya, i really appreciated your hardwork for write this post. Keep up your hardwork.Now im so jelous,what such a beatiful theme ever i seen, thanks for sharing ya

  49. Anonymous says

    March 11, 2011 at 5:15 pm

    It’s a nice list. You can definitely see the influence of the recent theme designs.

  50. cach vao facebook says

    May 17, 2011 at 3:46 am

    http://cachvaofacebook.vichat.info/ << hayyyyyyyy

  51. Mundo says

    June 17, 2011 at 4:00 pm

    WP rocks!

  52. Jocuri says

    July 19, 2011 at 4:23 am

    Ooo, nice blogs, this themes are very cool, light and profi.

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