As usual, the whole world is doing what Beyonce is doing. The Rolling Stones. Usain Bolt. TechCrunch. charity:water. Even Harvard Law School counts as a Bey follower!
What trend is Queen Bey setting now, my friends?
Using WordPress to build her website.
Today, nearly 1 in 4 websites are built on WordPress. Over 409 million people view more than 15.8 billion pages on WordPress each month, and WordPress users produce about 43.7 million new posts and 58.8 million new comments every single month! Estimates show that there are currently more than 60 million distinct websites that are using WordPress active on the web today.
WordPress is a big deal. As big of a deal (dare I say it?) as Mrs. Carter.
In case you’re not familiar (don’t worry, that’s why we’re here!), WordPress is a Content Management System (CMS) that allows users to create and manage blogs and websites. Okay, okay, so you know that a lot of bloggers tart out using WordPress? But you might not know that some of the biggest names out there, including brand and websites you visit every day, trust and love WordPress to keep their sites up and running and looking stellar.
What’s that you say? You want to create a website with WordPress, too? Checkout the brand new Freelance WordPress Developer Blueprint, the ultimate WordPress class. (You can even make money building websites while you’re learning!) More info here.
In celebration of the launch of the new WordPress Blueprint, behold this amazing list of 103 websites built using WordPress.
Brands
1. Izod
2. Courvoisier
3. UPS Blog
4. Boingo Wireless
5.Carnival Cruise Lines News
6. Bata
7. Van Heusen
8. The Knot Blog
9. Get Unreal
10. Wolverine Worldwide
11. Coca Cola France
12. Eddie Bauer: Blog
Humanitarian & Non-Profit
13. Charity Water
14. Acumen
15. Cure International
16. open.NASA
17. Rotary Club: Rotary Means Business
18. Global Voices
19. Smithsonian National Museum of African Art
20. The American Foundation for Equal Rights
21. American Red Cross Online Disaster News Portal
22. Ovarian Cancer National Alliance
23. Children’s Rights
24. Interfaith Housing Alliance
25. Kaiser Family Foundation
26. 90 Days of Art
27. Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum
28. Official Canadian Olympic Team
Media & News
29. Fortune
30. Dow Jones
31. Buzz Machine
32. LA Times: Framework
33. In Style
34. CNN
35. Boing Boing
36. TED
37. New York Post
38. USA Today: For the Win
39. Time
40. The New Yorker
41. BBC America
42. Variety
43. Quartz
44. Harvard Business Review: Blogs
45. Wall Street Journal Law Blog
46. SAP News Center
47. Reuters Blogs
48. CNN Political Ticker
49. New York Times
50. Forbes
51. Macleans
Music, Sports, and Entertainment
52. MTV News
53. Lollapalooza
54. Usain Bolt
55. Chicago Bulls
56. Beyonce
57. National Football League
58. Playstation Blog
59. Channing Tatum
60. IFC
61. The Rolling Stones
62. Star Wars Blog
63. Sony Music
64. NBC Sports
65. ESPN Product Blog
66. Larry King Live Blog
67. Katy Perry
68. The Walking Dead
69. Anderson Cooper 360*
70. Ariana Grande
71. The Meredith Viera Show
72. LL Cool J
73. Kylie Minogue
Technology
74. eBay
75. Best Buy
76. The Official Rackspace Blog
77. TechCrunch
78. Facebook Newsroom
79. Google Ventures
80. Mashable
81. ProBlogger
82. re/code
83. Laughing Squid
84. LinkedIn Official Blog
Universities & Colleges
85. Bates College
86. Washington University of St. Louis School of Law
87. University of Southern California – Rossier School
88. Duke Center for International Studies
89. University of Maine
90. University of Arkansas Little Rock
91. University of North Carolina: MBA@UNC
92. Lafayette College
93. Georgia State University
94. Harvard Law
Lifestlye and Bloggers
95. Cute Overload
96. Marie Forleo
97. Hello Giggles
98. The Sartorialist
99. Lauren Conrad
100. Man Repeller
101. Blogilates
102. Smitten Kitchen
103. Positively Positive
Do you use WordPress for your website too? Show us your site in the comments – we’d love to see what you’re building!