WordPress is a popular open source content management system and blogging platform. It has over 45 million installations, with 70 million plugins downloaded and 35 billion page views. WordPress powers 9% of the top million websites and is used by major companies like the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and BBC. While WordPress.com is free and hosted, WordPress.org provides more flexibility and customization for self-hosting and is seen as the more powerful platform for business uses.
These stats were sent to me by Mike, who got them from Wordpress itself
Dot com is really only good for blogs. I’ve tried to make it into a website and failed/
We run our site on .org, both the corporate site and the blog. Just upgraded both to 3.0 Friday with no problems, unassisted by geekery
This is our site.
Open source also has its down side. Heard Dave Winer say recently that you shouldn’t need a dashboard to write a blog post. But now I’m used to it, and anyone else can also get used to it.
Here come the examples. I left out most of the obvious ones, like NYTimes. All kinds and sizes of businesses run on Wordpress, or partially run on it. This one is a Lending Tree Property. It’s an online exchange for ccntractors.
This is the Boston University Admissions site.
This is part of the SAP web site. They’re a big enterprise resource planning company.
Salesforce.com actually has a Wordpress plug-in to connect the leads from a small business site to the Salesforce CRM database.
Here’s the Wordpress e-commerce plug in, built into WP 3. There are Flickr plugins, SEO plugins, anti-spam plugins.
Telling stuff
Selling stuff
This is the Wall Street Journal’s new magazine, which I guess is supposed to rival the Times Magazine
Here’s a guy from Phoenix who teaches blogging for business. His site is Wordpress.
Here’s a company that sells software. I got all my examples from Twitter by asking for them