{"id":538,"date":"2019-10-07T17:40:01","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T21:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jarodthornton.com\/?p=538"},"modified":"2019-10-07T17:48:04","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T21:48:04","slug":"websites-running-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jarodthornton.com\/2019\/10\/websites-running-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Websites Running WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2010 I took a serious interest in WordPress as a web content publishing platform. Going back to 2008 when I started doing work on the web, it was still a smallish blogging platform. Since then it&#8217;s grown into a behemoth for content publishers and websites the world over.<\/p>\n<h2>WordPress Awards<\/h2>\n<p>According to the builtwith trends WordPress is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The most popular open-source technology in the US and the entire internet!<\/li>\n<li>The most popular blogging technology in the US and the entire internet!<\/li>\n<li>The most popular Content Management System (CMS) on the entire internet!<\/li>\n<li>3rd most popular CMS in the United States<\/li>\n<li>Used on more than 27 million live websites<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s really impressive! There are millions of individuals, businesses, and entities using WordPress.<\/p>\n<h2>WordPress Notable Websites<\/h2>\n<p>It goes without saying that when millions of websites use a software, there will be some very recognizable names in the mix. Here are a few \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Official Star Wars Blog<\/li>\n<li>Sony Music<\/li>\n<li>The Walt Disney Company<\/li>\n<li>MTV News<\/li>\n<li>PlayStation Blog<\/li>\n<li>Beyonce<\/li>\n<li>Facebook Newsroom<\/li>\n<li>The New York Times Company<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What is WordPress?<\/h2>\n<p>WordPress is the simplest way to get a website up and running, scaled to meet your needs today and in the future. I will be writing more about WordPress, how I use it in my freelance design, and how you can use it for your personal or professional website! Learn more at <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/wordpress.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2010 I took a serious interest in WordPress as a web content publishing platform. Going back to 2008 when I started doing work on the web, it was still&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":540,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jarodthornton.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jarodthornton.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jarodthornton.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jarodthornton.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jarodthornton.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jarodthornton.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jarodthornton.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jarodthornton.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jarodthornton.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jarodthornton.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}