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Want to Be A Blogstar? Start with WordPress.

Posted by John Saddington on Jan 16, 2009

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Pingdom had a great post that analyzed deeply the Technorati Top 100 blogs, and what blogging platform they are using to succeed.

WordPress manages 32 of the top 100 (WordPress.com and .org)… and is far and away the winner.

Lesson learned? The professionals know. They choose WP to power their monster blogs. Perhaps you should too…!

Here’s the official breakdown [Thanks Pingdom for rocking this!]:

Top blog platforms
Blog nameTechnorati rankPlatform
Perez Hilton18Wordpress
Problogger46Wordpress
Chris Brogan69Wordpress
Zen Habits77Wordpress
Copyblogger89Wordpress
Think Progress27Wordpress
VentureBeat56Wordpress
/Film80Wordpress
Global Voices Online95Wordpress
The Caucus Blog – NYTimes22Wordpress
Bits Blog – NYTimes51Wordpress
Freakonomics – NYTimes70Wordpress
Pajamas Media45Wordpress
Just jared86Wordpress
Smitten Kitchen97Wordpress
Hot Air48Wordpress
Neatorama59Wordpress
TechCrunch2Wordpress
Smashing Magazine10Wordpress
Washington Wire – WSJ38Wordpress
Michelle Malkin39Wordpress
Daily Blog Tips63Wordpress
Yanko Design81Wordpress
Mashable11Wordpress
Roy Tanck’s weblog20Wordpress
CrunchGear49Wordpress
Delicious:days99Wordpress
Popwatch76Typepad
Seth’s Blog14Typepad
The Daily Dish21Typepad
Threat Level – Wired Blogs24Typepad
Gadget Lab – Wired Blogs26Typepad
Wired Science – Wired Blogs31Typepad
The Pioneer Woman32Typepad
Listening Post -Wired Blogs52Typepad
Political Radar53Typepad
The Underwire – Wired Blogs57Typepad
Epicenter – Wired Blogs60Typepad
Danger Room – Wired Blogs61Typepad
Geekdad – Wired Blogs71Typepad
How to Change the World73Typepad
Marginal Revolution82Typepad
Game | Life – Wired Blogs93Typepad
Engadget4Blogsmith
TMZ23Blogsmith
Joystiq25Blogsmith
BloggingStocks29Blogsmith
TUAW30Blogsmith
Cinematical33Blogsmith
Gadling36Blogsmith
Download Squad37Blogsmith
TV Squad40Blogsmith
Autoblog43Blogsmith
Slashfood47Blogsmith
Luxist85Blogsmith
Engadget Mobile94Blogsmith
Engadget Japanese100Blogsmith
Power Line Blog96Movable Type
Huffington Post1Movable Type
Talking Points Memo35Movable Type
Gothamist66Movable Type
Beppe Grillo’s Blog74Movable Type
http://kottke.org78Movable Type
Microsiervos79Movable Type
Stereogum91Movable Type
TreeHugger28Movable Type
Pharyngula92Movable Type
ReadWriteWeb15Movable Type
Boing Boing5Movable Type
Gizmodo3Gawker Media platform
Lifehacker6Gawker Media platform
Gawker12Gawker Media platform
Kotaku34Gawker Media platform
Consumerist50Gawker Media platform
Valleywag67Gawker Media platform
Defamer87Gawker Media platform
Deadspin88Gawker Media platform
Apartment Therapy65Custom
Seeking Alpha72Custom
Ars Technica9Custom
The Corner on NRO44Custom
Google Blogoscoped58Custom
MacRumors75Custom
A List Apart83Custom
Ben Smith’s Blog41Custom
GigaOM55Wordpress.com
I Can Has Cheezburger?13Wordpress.com
CNN Political Ticker17Wordpress.com
Scobleizer84Wordpress.com
Swampland – TIME90Wordpress.com
Dooce42Drupal
NewsBusters62Drupal
Crooks and Liars64Drupal
43 Folders98Drupal
The Official Google Blog7Blogger
PostSecret16Blogger
The Sartorialist54Blogger
Glenn Greenwald – Salon.com68Bricolage
Gigazine19Expression Engine
Daily Kos8Scoop
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John Saddington

John is the Chief Editor @ The 8BIT Network and Senior Blog Junkie here at ChurchCrunch.He enjoys Triple-Tall Americanos, developing Wordpress Themes, and a few other Random Things.

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20 Responses to “Want to Be A Blogstar? Start with WordPress.”

  1. Scott_Fillmer
    Friday, January 16, 2009 at 8:59 pm

    Wordpress is certainly where the bar is set but I would say that Technorati rank is not what it used to be. There are so many things you can do with a wordpress backend, besides just a blog. Great list of blogs by the way…

    Reply
    • human3rror
      Saturday, January 17, 2009 at 5:13 pm

      very true. there needs to be a new one…

      Reply
  2. Ben Cotten
    Friday, January 16, 2009 at 9:05 pm

    yeah, cool list. Hadn't heard of a lot of these.

    Was there ever any doubt that WP was king? ;-)

    Reply
    • human3rror
      Saturday, January 17, 2009 at 5:17 am

      never a moment. but providing proof helps…!

      Reply
  3. David Norman
    Friday, January 16, 2009 at 9:51 pm

    i just subscribed to the blog, and thus far, great content! at the risk of being flamed, can someone extol the virtues of WP over blogger?

    i'm not willing to argue and defend blogger, i'm just trying to determine if i should make the jump.

    is it functionality? what? the stats have to mean something. what do they mean?

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    • Graham Brenna
      Friday, January 16, 2009 at 10:20 pm

      I'm just getting started with my blog but I chose WP because it seemed that it would give the most functionality. I'm able to manipulate it and add cool widgets and what-not that blogger wouldn't let me do. I don't know a lot about CSS writing but I'm learning and I think that's cool.

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      • human3rror
        Saturday, January 17, 2009 at 3:01 pm

        sweet! we can neve stop learning. there's so much to be done!

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    • Aaron
      Saturday, January 17, 2009 at 3:17 am

      As someone that recently switched from Blogger to WordPress v2.7 hosted on my own domain, I've got a few opinions.
      1. It's a LOT more in depth (more functionality), so there is a slight learning curve.
      2. You can make static pages, which you can't do in Blogger.
      3. You've got a built-in media (pics, etc) manager, which you can't do in Blogger. (Although, I liked Blogger's integration with Picasa better.)
      4. User management is nice, especially if you plan on creating a multi-user blog.
      5. Bunches of more themes on the net.
      6. Ability to COMPLETELY back up your blog. Which, after the JournalSpace debacle, is an awesome feature.

      Those are the ones that stand-out to me. Good luck!

      Reply
    • human3rror
      Saturday, January 17, 2009 at 3:04 pm

      dude, LOVE that you're here. hope to provide you great content so that you can learn and help others…!

      Reply
  4. Ancoti
    Saturday, January 17, 2009 at 12:08 am

    Again, I trail along in the minority position but unwillingly to change. is it pride, indifference or incompetence? Possibly a blend of all 3!

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    • human3rror
      Saturday, January 17, 2009 at 2:57 pm

      dude, it works. and it works!

      Reply
  5. Aaron
    Saturday, January 17, 2009 at 3:09 am

    How much is WordPress paying you for your WP PR campaign? :P

    Reply
    • human3rror
      Saturday, January 17, 2009 at 5:33 pm

      nothing. amazing. i should be getting apid.

      Reply
  6. Jim
    Saturday, January 17, 2009 at 4:35 am

    went to a WP User Group in Portland,OR last night.It was amazing. http://pdxwp.com

    Reply
    • human3rror
      Saturday, January 17, 2009 at 2:56 pm

      very cool. glad you had the op!

      Reply
  7. Frank Johnson
    Saturday, January 17, 2009 at 9:44 pm

    Ironically, the "stars" at Happy Cog (the designers of the WordPress 2.7 admin interface) use a CMS that only appears once on your list – Expression Engine – for their own site and others. :) http://tinyurl.com/72grxk

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    • human3rror
      Saturday, January 17, 2009 at 10:18 pm

      yeah, i did happen to notice that… but GUI dev is completely different philosophically than platform choice. they can escape shame.

      Reply
  8. Frank Johnson
    Saturday, January 17, 2009 at 10:33 pm

    True. Platform choice is the reason to choose Expression Engine. :) Seriously, I'm just poking fun a bit. But I would never use anything other than EE.

    Reply
    • human3rror
      Saturday, January 17, 2009 at 10:43 pm

      really? you that hooked? wow. keep it strong bro!

      Reply