Amazing WordPress Website Examples
Written by Casey Botticello
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1. 99% Invisible
99% Invisible is one of the most popular podcasts about design. Their website features a beautiful design built for podcasting with easy navigation and quick access to their latest episodes. It has a beautiful podcast player integrated into site’s design.
2. Ted Blog
3. Smart Chameleon
Smart Chameleon is a digital agency that creates “complex digital solutions” for their clients. In addition to the base theme that Smart Chameleon uses, they also use the Elementor page builder for most of the design work, and this is one of the best WordPress website examples you’ll find using Elementor.
4. Studio OAUM
Studio OUAM is a French creative agency specializing in visual identity and brand creation. Its homepage features beautiful typography, cursor sensitive animations, beautiful parallax effects, and on-scroll animations.
5. Nove
Nove is a public affairs and communication consulting firm. They assist other businesses in their interaction with relevant stakeholders. Its homepage has no scrolls, instead, there’re sections like services, stories, social media, etc.
If you click on any section, for example: Services, then it shows the services they provide to different sectors. Moreover, you can surf those sections with the sidebar menu in the top-right.
6. Solid Print3D
Solid Print3D is a SolidWorks reseller. The top of the homepage features a slideshow. As you scroll down, the content is gradually revealed by animated CSS slide-ins. The icons of their customers also animate when you hover your mouse pointer over them.
All of these make the Solid Print3D online store for WordPress look very “alive.” This feeling is further enhanced by the presence of the chatbot. It sends a welcome message to all the new visitors and offers them some gifts to help them get to know the products better.
The website of their WordPress eCommerce store has all the information the buyer might need. You’ll find a well-categorized product page with plenty of filters for a better search. The product images are large and high-quality.
All the elements of the design go well together. Even the live chat widget matches perfectly with the color of the CTA buttons.
7. Amazonia Font
This WordPress site uses a custom theme and offers a library of custom-made fonts available for purchase. It has a bold, dark color scheme and is unique in design. The thing that stands out with this website is it only has a single page of content. You can see the fonts that are available by clicking on the arrow keys with no scrolling involved.
8. Nomad Capitalist
Nomad Capitalist provides entrepreneurs with legal strategies to reduce their tax bill, grow wealth overseas, and become global citizens.
Built on Divi, the Nomad Capitalist website is primarily designed to build trust with prospective clients and convert them into existing clients. With these goals in mind, the homepage includes several About sections, a Team section, a testimonials slider, multiple images as well as a video of the founder of Nomad Capitalist, strategically placed and colorful CTA buttons, and an email opt-in form.
9. Side Hustle Nation
Side Hustle is an online community of entrepreneurs who’s goal is to gain financial freedom through creating businesses that can help them achieve that. There’s a collection of highly actionable blog posts on how to make additional income on top of your day job wage. They make good use of the podcast medium of content marketing by creating various podcasts with experts talking about a whole range of topics around entrepreneurship, making money online and creating wealth.
10. The Crafty Needle
11. WPMayor
Launched in 2010 by Jean Galea and later joined by his wife Alyona and cousin Mark, WP Mayor is rich with content focused on WordPress themes, plugins and service reviews. The site is updated multiple times per week and is widely read in the WordPress community.
12. Reuters
Reuters is a huge media company that delivers breaking world news every day. Powered by WordPress, the site is updated by the minute. On every post, Reuters includes the publish date and time so you know exactly when it was published.
And for those keeping an eye on the stock market, Reuters lists share prices at the top of the homepage by using widgets that update automatically. There are dozens of WordPress plugins that do this — for weather, real estate listings in your area, traffic, insurance quotes, retail sales, and more.
13. FLWR
New Zealand-based floral shop FLWR fills the screen with stunning images of its custom bouquets, arranged by color. When visitors hover over an image, they are shown a text box with more information about the flowers in each bouquet and can click to order a custom bouquet. The shop’s homepage also features stunning images from its Instagram feed, turning a standard link to follow on social media into an eye-catching design element.
Flwr’s stylish website, also built using WooCommerce, is a great example of how getting creative when photographing your items for sale can have a huge impact on your ecommerce site.
14. Contently
Great content marketing requires three key ingredients: a content strategy that delights your audience, a content marketing platform that streamlines campaigns, and great storytellers that make people care. Contently provides all three to help brands create high-performing content that builds awareness and generates leads. They also have several blogs focusing on strategy, digital transformation, storytelling, and freelancing.
15. Cola Gourmet
A colorful, thematically appropriate background sets a bright and fresh tone for South Carolina-based meal delivery service Cola Gourmet. Featuring attractive pictures of food right up top gets visitors’ mouths watering, and the photos scroll to display numerous options in a small space. The website is easy to navigate and features a guide on how meal delivery works, for customers who may be new to the service.
Cola Gourmet utilizes the WooCommerce plugin for WordPress.
16. CopyBlogger
Since 2006, Copyblogger has been teaching people how to create killer online content. Copyblogger started as a simple one-man blog. It evolved into a highly profitable company with 8 figures in annual revenue thanks to useful content, smart copywriting, and exceptional products and services. They also have an incredibly useful blog, which covers a wide range of writing and marketing topics. True to its name, Copyblogger is rich with well-written content, and a clean minimalist website design.
17. Crazy Lenny’s Electric Bikes
Electric means of personal transportation, such as e-bikes, are becoming very popular. And that’s exactly what Crazy Lenny’s WordPress webshop specializes in.
The guys behind the brand want to be perceived as trusted e-bikes experts. They communicate their authority through bold claims, testimonials, blog, explainers, and statistics.
Crazy Lenny’s WordPress shop is very customer-oriented. First, the owners offer five different channels to reach them (they integrated Tidio chat into their WordPress website). Second, they run a blog where they post articles related to electric bikes.
Apart from using traditional payment methods, Crazy Lenny’s customers can pay through PayPal and Apple Pay. Very flexible approach for a WordPress online shop!
18. Bougainville Tourism
Bougainville Tourism is the first tourism related website created after the island nation of Bougainville voted for independence, scheduling it to become the world’s newest country. The site is simple in its layout, but also efficiently conveys the essential information on the main page.
19. Jeremy Chou
Photography websites are all about the portfolio of work. When looking for a WordPress website example to serve as inspiration for your photography, pay special attention to the layout options for your work. You want to be sure you’re showing off your photos in a creative way without sacrificing the user experience (SEO optimized images).
Jeremy Chou’s website has the perfect balance of photography and copy. Yes, a photography website is about showcasing your work… but that doesn’t mean you can’t use good copy to help tell visitors what you and your work are all about. If you’re looking for a photography website that balances text and imagery, this is a great one to use for inspiration.
20. Blog Banner
Blog Banner is an example of a well designed WordPress website (that is essentially a single landing page). Creativity and design are showcased well in this website built using Divi:
21. The Positivity Blog
The Positivity Blog is a minimal blog site by Henrik Edberg, a full-time blogger. This blog is all about self-esteem, happiness, etc. If you’re looking for personal development advice for getting good results at work, then check out this blog.
The blog itself is easy to read and uses beautiful typography. Apart from the positivity courses, it also guides you with building your own blog.
Conclusion
WordPress is an amazing website builder! It is no surprise that it powers 43% of all of the websites on the internet. I hope you found these amazing WordPress website examples, useful! While many of these websites required lots of customization (and hard work!), they are all also realistic examples of websites that anyone with a bit of experience with WordPress can create.