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by Automattic

Who uses, recommends or left WordPress, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

6 people

Jeffrey Zeldman
Web designer and writer; founded A List Apart and Happy Cog, co-founded the An Event Apart conference, and wrote Designing With Web Standards.
loved

I love WordPress because it lets me write directly into my layout-I test for line-wrap and widows, just as if I was writing print copy-and because of its extensibility and the community that supports it.

His written "Uses This" interview, from Happy Cog and A List Apart.

2009-11-13·usesthis.com ↗

Justin Jackson
Canadian bootstrapper, co-founder of the podcast hosting company Transistor.fm, and writer on building small software businesses at justinjackson.ca.
uses

WPengine and WordPress - at the end of the day, I make money from my words. It's where I've built my reputation.

A page titled 'The tools I use', listing the tools he makes his living with, ordered by importance. He notes he keeps adding to and modifying the list. WordPress itself is named without a link; the WP Engine link in the same bullet is affiliate-tagged.

2016-12-22·justinjackson.ca ↗

Matt Cutts
Longtime head of Google's webspam team; later administrator of the United States Digital Service.
uses

For my website mattcutts.com I use Tiger Tech for webhosting, and for my blog I use WordPress.

The Setup (usesthis.com) interview: his work machines, running gear and the contents of his travel backpack.

2014-04-03·usesthis.com ↗

Horace Dediu
Industry analyst who writes the Asymco blog and hosts The Critical Path podcast on mobile and computing strategy.
uses

My blog is done in Wordpress.

The Setup (usesthis.com) interview: the Mac-heavy setup behind Asymco's charts and his podcast.

2011-07-06·usesthis.com ↗

Jessamyn West
Librarian, technology instructor and writer in Vermont; longtime MetaFilter community manager.
uses

I run nearly all my websites in some version of WordPress.

The Setup (usesthis.com) interview: the tools behind her library teaching, writing and MetaFilter work.

2011-07-01·usesthis.com ↗

Jessica Hische
Letterer, illustrator and type designer; creator of Daily Drop Cap and of many hand-lettered book covers.
uses

I use Wordpress for my blog, Tumblr for my Daily Drop Cap site (though I will be switching to another format once the project is finished for better archiving).

The Setup (usesthis.com) interview: her studio and travel machines and the design software she letters with.

2011-02-15·usesthis.com ↗

What they also use

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.

What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:

Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.