10 Sites You Can Develop With Wordpress « GotChance

10 Sites You Can Develop With Wordpress

Wordpress is, without a doubt, the most popular open source blogging software. But, its much more than just a blogging platform. With its 3233 plugins (as of this instant), its the most flexible platform for developing almost anything. In this post, we’ll see what all you can do with Wordpress.

Blog

Wordpress was primarily developed to be a blogging platform and that is what it is being used for, widely. Almost every other blog that you come across today is powered by Wordpress (includes my own blog). Also, Wordpress.com hosts about ~~4,562,469 blogs~~ (when I started writing this post) 4,562,720 blogs (when I finished writing this post) that are powered by Wordpress.

Static Website

If you are not going to blog and you simple wish to have a static website, Wordpress can still help you with it. Also, you can just have the static website or have a blog attached with it. You can do it without any external plugin. This feature comes packed with Wordpress. You can check out this post and this for more knowledge.

Magazine

Are you a print magazine publisher ? Or, do you want to write a magazine online ? You can create your own E-Zine with wordpress. There’s a huge pile of magazine themes available for Wordpress. In my previous post, I dealt with using magazine themes. There are some very popular e-zines out there, powered by Wordpress.

Social Network

All of you would have probably heard of Facebook, Bebo or MySpace. They are what we call today as “Social Networks”. The cool thing is that you can create your own Social Network with Wordpress. Either you can do it manually by editing WP’s code. Or, you can simple install BuddyPress over an installation of Wordpress MU. Also, check out this live social network which uses Wordpress.

Email Newsletter Manager : WordBurner

Most of the Newsletter Managing softwares out there are very expensive. But, luckily FeedBurner offers Emails Subscriptions for RSS Feeds for free. Combining that with a Wordpress installation, you can create your own email newsletter manager for free. NetTuts has an extensive tutorial on how to create this software called “WordBurner” ;)

Gallery

“A Picture says more than a Thousand Words”.

Wordpress has inbuilt Gallery support using the shortcode. But, there are numerous plugins available to convert Wordpress into a cool gallery. You can check out the whole list, but NextGEN gallery is my favorite.

Forum

Though softwares like vBulletin, phpBB and SMF rule the world of online forums, Wordpress has its own solution called bbPress. bbPress is plain and simple forum software, plain and simple. It’s easy to use, easy to administrate, fast and clean. It is also highly customizable just like how Wordpress is.

Feed Aggregator

Simply put, A Feed Aggregator is one which gets the content from various sources and puts them all at one place. A very powerful plugin called WP-o-Matic is available to serve this purpose. The plugin converts your Wordpress into a personalized feed aggregator. But, such plugins are also being used to STEAL content from other blogs.

MicroBlogging

Does that word seem unfamiliar to you ? But, I bet you’d have heard about Twitter, Jaiku, Pownce, Tumblr etc.. They are nothing but the so-called MicroBlogging platforms. Using Wordpress, you can create your own MicroBlogging site, with the help of the Prologue theme. And, the good news is that, it comes right from the Wordpress team themselves. You can also check out the demo.

Membeship Directory

Do you want to create a moderated membership directory that showcases your member’s information? Do you want it to be flexible, be very little work after initial setup, and use a world-class open source platform that you are already familiar with?

Check out this detailed tutorial on how to create your own Membership directory using Wordpress.

Do you use Wordpress for any other purpose ? Or, do you know anyone that does it ? Have any new idea on how else Wordpress can be used ? Share your views in the comments…

on Sunday, November 2nd, 2008 at 7:48 am, under Blogging, Tools. RSS.

87 Responses to “10 Sites You Can Develop With Wordpress”

Hari says:

January 3, 2009 at 4:50 am

@Freddie, Glad you like my content.. I sure will check out your blog..

@Taylor, Glad you like my blog :) And, sure do consider seriously about switching to Wordpress..

Discount Hockey Equipment says:

January 3, 2009 at 7:01 am

Well, Google likes Blogger blogs because they own them right?

However, they can be flagged by anyone, at any time, getting you into trouble even if you don’t think you’ve done anything wrong.

Maybe I’m just paranoid about that, but it seems like a big issuse to me.

Amyone else have an opion about that>

Hari says:

January 3, 2009 at 5:16 pm

I don’t think Google will pay any special attention to Blogger blogs just because they own them..

Flyer says:

January 4, 2009 at 1:02 am

@Hari; I am not sure if it has anything to do with it, or just the content that was on them… but in the past, i have actually had a blogger blog indexed quicker then the wordpress and the wordpress one was created earlier. But maybe it is just what i was doing on one blog. I am not sure.

~ Flyer

illuminati says:

January 4, 2009 at 2:10 am

I had no idea you could do so much with wordpress. I especially like the social network sites.

Hari says:

January 4, 2009 at 5:59 am

@Flyer, I’m not sure on that either.. But it wouldn’t be fair if Google showed preference to Blogger blogs..

Daily Inspirational Quotes says:

January 6, 2009 at 3:15 pm

Hello Hari, great article. I use Wordpress for all of my websites, and I really love the power and flexibility it has.
Especially for someone like me who isn’t very technical, it really made managing a website easy for me.

Tell me, do you recommend using Wordpress to manage more complex sites, or just for a blog?

Keep up the great work!

Hari says:

January 6, 2009 at 6:34 pm

I’d recomment Wordpress to manage any type of site as long as it is possible to build that site using Wordpress..

Promotional Codes says:

January 7, 2009 at 5:29 pm

Some great articles on your site which i discovered from your comments on another blog so guess replying to blogs is a good way of generating traffic so off to look at doing one on wordpress.

VHTrading says:

January 9, 2009 at 1:29 pm

Has anybody actually installed or used bbpress? I’ve never heard of this and was wondering if this was a good solution. I currently use phpBB on another site and want to know if this is half as good. Thanks.

Paul Kirk says:

January 9, 2009 at 6:58 pm

It is definitely a lot of work to create great content

Hari says:

January 12, 2009 at 1:52 pm

@VHTrading, bbpress is a good “minimal” forum software.. It can’t replace phpBB or vBulletin on SMF.. But, definitely worth a try..

Clean red widgets guy says:

January 14, 2009 at 5:10 am

Thanks for the ideas. I was thinking about creating a static landing page, but wasnt’ sure if I could to the static thing… That way it smells like a blog to Google, and you know how Google loves blogs!

Lynn says:

January 15, 2009 at 7:02 pm

Thanks for sharing this great information about wordpress!

bob house says:

January 20, 2009 at 10:24 am

thnaks for a very interesting article.
i’ve used WP for static sites before and blogs of course.
i never knew WP could be used for a social networking site or media gallery.

Beth @ Casual Relationships says:

January 20, 2009 at 1:19 pm

Got to hand it to you Hari, I never knew such things were possible with Wordpress. Especially the Social Media site. Awesome work on the list. It was informative and I’m definitely going to recommend this to my friends. Wordpress is really awesome compared to its competitors. Thanks for the great list. Keep up the good work

Kristi @ Low Book Sales says:

February 4, 2009 at 3:46 am

Nice list Hari. Heard about most of the site but never knew you could make a social media network. That’s kind of neat. I need to try that out. Who knows, it might just get popular :) Thanks

Tina @ Low Book Sales says:

February 4, 2009 at 3:42 pm

Great post. This gives us a clear image of what we can do with Wordpress. Some of them are very interesting and it gives me some new ideas too. Thanks for the information Hari.

Dan Samuels says:

February 4, 2009 at 3:48 pm

Love the post. Nice list you have there. Never thought that we can do so much things with WORDPRESS. Thanks a lot for sharing the information with us HARI.

Marian mcCanless says:

February 4, 2009 at 9:59 pm

Yeah wordpress is extremely flexible. Nice list of uses. How about bookmarking directory and article directories?

Running Log says:

February 6, 2009 at 10:09 am

First off nice list, but I think you would probably add a whole bunch more types of sites. Like CMS sites and script archive sites (or any archive type site for that matter)just to name a few. Let me know what you think.

transportadora says:

February 11, 2009 at 1:07 pm

That´s amazing!!
I didn´t know that I could creat a social network with Wordpress. I´m gonna do it now!

Thanks for the tips.

Veterinarian says:

February 17, 2009 at 2:16 am

Thanks Hari. Never knew so may thing were possible by WP. It is simply the best. and this post highlights it. I bet none of the other blog platforms can do all this lot. WP rock. Thanks for the information. Cheers

CurrentMedia says:

February 20, 2009 at 3:58 am

Wonderful article, I never knew that you can create a static website using wordpress.

Cast says:

February 24, 2009 at 2:58 pm

Thanks for sharing this information!! Wordpress is perfect!

LiaRRR says:

February 25, 2009 at 1:45 pm

Thanks for sharing this information!! Wordpress is perfect!

sadasdasd says:

February 25, 2009 at 1:46 pm

That´s amazing!!
I didn´t know that I could creat a social network with Wordpress. I´m gonna do it now!

Thanks for the tips.

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February 26, 2009 at 3:30 am

Dude. I just figured out that you can make way more money online by expanding your niche. My money has increased 15 times. Dude. I’d give it a try. That’s what I am doing with video blogging tips.

Kelly Allen says:

March 1, 2009 at 5:56 pm

thanks for the great post Hari

it gives lots of information for me and also used it for my sites

S-Axxis says:

March 5, 2009 at 9:00 am

Very nice post

Shop Fitting says:

March 16, 2009 at 6:40 pm

This is a good showcase of it’s possibilities. Thanks for the enlightenment.

bulldozer says:

March 19, 2009 at 6:43 am

Cool. It;s a good way to know how the tools can work! Thanks for sharing, Informative article.

SRobert2 says:

March 24, 2009 at 2:06 am

Hari, thanks for the great post. Excellent article, great tips.

RaiulBaztepo says:

March 29, 2009 at 12:33 am

Hello!
Very Interesting post! Thank you for such interesting resource!
PS: Sorry for my bad english, I’v just started to learn this language ;)
See you!
Your, Raiul Baztepo

Birthday SMS says:

March 31, 2009 at 8:47 am

i love your Blog.Thanks for sharing this great information about wordpress!

link building campaign says:

April 1, 2009 at 3:14 am

Once again Hari, thanks a lot for the information. Appreciate all the effort. I never knew WP is capable of running so may sites. Thanks for the information anyway. Ttime to get experimenting ;) Cheers

awesome quotes says:

April 3, 2009 at 7:03 pm

I’m a religious wordpress user, it’s one of the best CMS systems around, and for good reason. I’ve literally used WP for just about 4 of the methods you stated above, I haven’t tried the social networking aspect of it yet and that’s actually my next venture. Do you know if WP database can support a large user database required by a successful Social site?