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 :)
Author: Mike Smith
Mike Smith writes a freelance blog on a regular basis and is also a blog designer at Guerrilla.
gillico says
April 21, 2010 at 6:12 pmI might as well take the chance to show off my own original site design which I run on WordPress, since you offered :)
Aaron Irizarry says
April 21, 2010 at 6:18 pmNice round-up thanks for the include!
Josh Hemsley says
April 21, 2010 at 6:21 pmBeautiful 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
Clear Blue Designs says
April 21, 2010 at 6:23 pmI 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!
Jason Schuller says
April 21, 2010 at 6:44 pmVery nice collection of sites indeed. Thank you very much for including ThemeGarden!
Morgan Finley says
April 21, 2010 at 7:04 pmThrilled to have Freehand Futurist included on one of my favorite design blogs. Fantastic round-up!
Iceman says
April 21, 2010 at 7:05 pmCheck out TopGunDay.com, if not for the design, then do it for Goose! Top Gun Day is coming up on May 13th!
Derrick Workman says
April 21, 2010 at 8:34 pmReally 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!
Webanddesigners says
April 21, 2010 at 9:08 pmSimply awesome designs. Loved it. Its good WordPress is turning out to be more of a CMS rather than just a blog.
inspirationfeed says
April 21, 2010 at 9:31 pmWow, great collection.
JDRand says
April 21, 2010 at 9:35 pmI 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!
david silva says
April 21, 2010 at 9:40 pmHey Mike, Awesome list here, but you missed mine ;) http://www.flickthis.tv
David Kim says
April 21, 2010 at 9:44 pmAwesome list of WordPress designs. Thanks for mentioning Design Vetica
Mike Smith says
April 22, 2010 at 12:36 amThanks 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.
Rodney Keeling says
April 22, 2010 at 3:08 amNice list! I wish I could’ve made it though!
Luca says
April 22, 2010 at 3:47 amWonderful list, but don’t miss http://www.gruppomodulo.it!
Federico says
April 22, 2010 at 4:45 amWow 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!
Mar says
April 22, 2010 at 6:53 amReally nice selection! Love the Takashi Irie’s one
Takashi Irie says
April 22, 2010 at 6:59 amThis is a great list. Thanks for listing my site!
Jono Alderson says
April 22, 2010 at 7:59 amSome 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 ;)
welshstew says
April 22, 2010 at 8:27 amI really like the vTravelled blog designed by @johnonolan.
You can also take a look at http://wave-hosting.co.uk
Joe Hackman says
April 22, 2010 at 8:31 amGreat examples! I think you should have included http://blog.firedepartment.org/jonas but I am somewhat partial!
Tyler says
April 22, 2010 at 8:35 amNice List. May I add one? 100% wordpress driven : http://www.hiddenspringsna.com – This one also shows off e-commerce in wordpress.
acosmin says
April 22, 2010 at 10:11 amThanks for adding my website in the list :D
Hannes says
April 22, 2010 at 10:25 ami just love the Job they did on the vTravelled Blog :D
Guillermo says
April 22, 2010 at 11:01 amGreat List! Check it http://bloghelpr.us/ It runs on WP too.
lava360blog says
April 22, 2010 at 2:54 pmthats really terrific. powerful combination of wordpress and webdesign. thanks for share
TheAL says
April 22, 2010 at 4:56 pmAwesome and inspiring! Let’s get some Drupal sites in here that are this sexy and I’ll be all set. ;-)
David Hellmann says
April 23, 2010 at 3:59 ama lot of great sites. thanks for show my page.
Harm Wimmenhove says
April 23, 2010 at 4:51 amWe did http://www.resoluut.com also in WordPress! It rocks!
mynameisorman says
April 23, 2010 at 8:19 amThanks for the include (www.awesem.co.uk) – some great looking sites in that list!
sean farrell says
April 23, 2010 at 10:37 amHey, these are great! especially the rickmans and design buzz, lots of others too!
Marc Thomas says
April 23, 2010 at 5:39 pmWow! thanks for the mention :) there are some awesome sites on this list so I’m very honoured to be a part of it!
Bart - Logo Design Manchester says
April 24, 2010 at 12:18 pmTHat’s a nice showcase of WordPress designs! Thanks for sharing and hope to see more!
kim says
April 24, 2010 at 12:49 pmThank you! It’s such a great honor to be listed alongside the other excellent and inspirational WordPress website designs.
Brad says
April 26, 2010 at 11:34 amReally 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
Flasher says
April 26, 2010 at 6:36 pmThanks, nice collection of designs
Ivan Rojas says
April 27, 2010 at 10:25 amawesome sites, im planning to do something with wordpress for the blog in my store http://www.cosasperuanas.com , great job.
Lee Fuller says
April 29, 2010 at 1:44 pmSome great sites here, with some awesome designs, thanks for putting this collection together.
Chris Wallace says
April 30, 2010 at 11:37 pmThanks for including UpThemes! I certainly appreciate the props.
Steve says
May 17, 2010 at 7:35 amThanks for mentioning MailBakery
Sumeet Chawla says
May 17, 2010 at 4:54 pmNice 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! :)
vinod says
May 26, 2010 at 7:39 amLoved the collection. Although, I have known most of the websites.
Would love to see mine next year,
http://www.vinodsobale.com/
Cheers,
vinod
Ed says
July 21, 2010 at 7:47 pmThanks 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.
Caroline says
July 23, 2010 at 1:11 pmGreat collection! I especially enjoyed Carol Rivello’s website.
Both my portfolio websites are done in WordPress. Wouldn’t use anything else!
Versatigon says
October 7, 2010 at 7:53 pmI like both Monday by Noon and this website user friendly interface…
Jocuri says
February 14, 2011 at 9:56 pmThanks for sharing. Great job.
daus says
March 5, 2011 at 3:37 amwhat 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
Anonymous says
March 11, 2011 at 5:15 pmIt’s a nice list. You can definitely see the influence of the recent theme designs.
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Mundo says
June 17, 2011 at 4:00 pmWP rocks!
Jocuri says
July 19, 2011 at 4:23 amOoo, nice blogs, this themes are very cool, light and profi.