Who uses WordPress in NZ?

Written by Jason | Published on July 2, 2009

We made this list of WordPress sites in New Zealand for our sponsors a few weeks back and since then have found even more.

Perhaps one outcome of wordcamp will be to allow us to extend the list and make a bit of a directory to showcase what the WordPress community is doing here. Would that be useful?

In any case we hope to list all attendee WordPress sites – we’re expecting people from some of the sites listed below to be at WordCampNZ.

In New Zealand a number of high profile sites use WordPress such as the New Zealand Stock exchange, Humans, BrightMinds Labs, Slamxhype,  Thewire, Techsploder, American Chamber of Commerce – (Amcham), iJump – Simon Young, Brian Edwards Media and many others like the Journalism Schools at AUT and Wellington – Whitireia Journalism School and Victoria University student newspaper Salient.  Soul Purpose is another magazine style site.

There are also  many smaller community groups like GreyLynn2030, Grey Lynn Community Centre and others like The New Zealand Rose Society using WordPress. There are also many creative businesses like Spacific Films , Topp Twins, Version Productions and MokoInk using WordPress.

There are many industry commentators like Andrew Dubber,  Diversity (Ben Kepes), Bill Bennett,   Lance Wiggs, Miraz Jordan , Gareth Renowden with Hot Topic , Steve Price on Media Law and Nat Torkington who all use WordPress as their platform. New Zealand techpreneur Rod Drury blogged at his personal site for 5+ years and can now be found at Xero.   Rowan Simpson

Context Connect is a site with a NZ connection recently rebuilt by Creative Web Ideas

The NZ Centre for Social innovation uses WordPress as does Jason Books

There are even a few government departments like e-government – SSC, ALAC, Lively, E Learning Lunchbox, and Te Ara Signposts – about the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. There is even one called Research e-Labs - web trends, open source and technology in government which looks like one to track.

Since then we’ve found RESN – Interactive Agency, Eden Ripley Photo Blocks (a site made by Instinct using the WordPress e-Commerce Plugin), TAPAC (The Performing Arts Centre Auckland) and ArtsTherapyNZ have just gone live and there are many other new sites including Business Blogs.

Write us a comment below to let us know your WordPress based site and what it is about.

It would be great if you can link back to WordcampNZ or this page so other NZ WordPress users can find this starter list.


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  1. Adrian Hodge
    Posted July 2, 2009 at 9:17 am | Permalink

    I build a lot of my clients sites on wordpress these days. The most recent being http://rotoruamuseum.co.nz

    Other wordpress sites I’ve built are:
    http://basicinstincts.co.nz
    http://adrianhodge.com
    http://hodgeman.co.nz
    http://regentrotorua.co.nz
    http://regentflashpackers.co.nz
    http://sustainableNZ.com
    http://adra.org
    http://adracharityrun.org
    http://rmcc.org.nz

  2. Ronan
    Posted July 2, 2009 at 9:18 am | Permalink

    Another one for the list is the blogs section of interest.co.nz

    • Jason
      Posted July 2, 2009 at 9:39 am | Permalink

      Thanks Ronan and your site cuplaweb Looks like a couple of interesting plugins you have developed as well.

  3. Jason
    Posted July 2, 2009 at 10:15 am | Permalink

    We forgot to add the FrogBlog for the Green Party. We heard of a couple of other local political parties using WordPress and trying to confirm those sites.

  4. Sarah Jones
    Posted July 2, 2009 at 11:02 am | Permalink

    Hi Jason,

    Labour has a couple of blogs (I think there’s a party blog and a parliamentary blog, if you see the difference …)
    Here are two wordpress blogs that Boost has developed:

    blog.labour.org.nz
    grantrobertson.co.nz

    I hope the plans for WordCamp are going well.

    Regards,
    Sarah (via email)

  5. Richard
    Posted July 2, 2009 at 11:09 am | Permalink

    This site collates, among other things, legal news and events from law firms, event organisers etc, bringing them into a central location and organised by subject matter. Anyone can then subscribe to the collated material, by reference to the subject(s) in which they’re interested, by RSS or email.

  6. Richard
    Posted July 2, 2009 at 11:12 am | Permalink

    http://www.clanzonline.org is the website of the Corporate Lawyers Association of New Zealand. Built on WordPress, it acts as the online focal point for New Zealand’s in-house lawyers. Among other things, it utilises the fantastic FeedWordPress plugin to incorporate content from relevant third party RSS sources (with those sources’ consent). The existence of WordPress enabled us to build this website on a shoestring budget.

  7. Jo Couchman
    Posted July 2, 2009 at 11:30 am | Permalink

    The Weekend Gardener magazine website is also powered by WordPress with fully functioning shop using Instinct E-Commerce Plugin.

  8. Steve
    Posted July 2, 2009 at 12:03 pm | Permalink

    a journey into thinking, ideas, creativity and innovation

  9. Su Yin
    Posted July 2, 2009 at 12:09 pm | Permalink

    The Science Media Centre is a happy camper

  10. Paul Spence
    Posted July 2, 2009 at 12:10 pm | Permalink

    Technology, innovation and entrepreneurship in New Zealand. Genius Net

  11. Jo Couchman
    Posted July 2, 2009 at 4:49 pm | Permalink

    Including the Weekend Gardener magazine web address might have been helpful – Weekend Gardener Magazine website

  12. Craig Martin
    Posted July 2, 2009 at 6:27 pm | Permalink

    We use WordPress :) The Indie Travel Podcast is a Lonely Planet award-winning travel podcast and magazine-style site giving sweet advice for independent travellers worldwide. Kiwi founders Craig and Linda Martin travel full-time but are in their hometown of Auckland for the next six months.

  13. Jason
    Posted July 2, 2009 at 6:50 pm | Permalink

    Here is another interesting site which uses a WordPress based blog for Give a Little but most of the site is built on another platform. Givealittle is an online community where every New Zealander with time, money or networks to give can find every possible opportunity to do so.

  14. Ryan
    Posted July 2, 2009 at 7:06 pm | Permalink

    I run the Dunedin Ice Hockey Associations website on WordPress:
    http://dunedinicehockey.co.nz/

  15. Jitendra
    Posted July 2, 2009 at 9:49 pm | Permalink

    Vodafone online has embraced wordpress:
    http://blogs.vodafone.co.nz/online
    http://foundation.vodafone.co.nz/
    http://3gguy.vodafone.co.nz/

    We will roll out more sites built on wordpress over the coming months.

    Cheers

    • Jason
      Posted July 2, 2009 at 10:06 pm | Permalink

      Thanks Jitendra. That is great – so who do we call about sponsorship for the conference?

  16. Dan
    Posted July 2, 2009 at 10:22 pm | Permalink

    @Jo – Its always nice to see kiwi companies that use our e-Commerce Plugin for WordPress.

    http://www.huia.co.nz is another site using our e-Commerce Plugin.There are more but we’ll leave that for them to post :D

  17. Mental
    Posted July 3, 2009 at 7:06 am | Permalink

    I’ve pretty much moved from a bespoke CMS to just using WordPress these days for websites – most recent live site is:

    http://www.KayakFishingNZ.com

    Also have three more in development that are built on WordPress

  18. Ms Constantine
    Posted July 3, 2009 at 5:36 pm | Permalink

    I run a blog on wordpress http://cupcakesandmace.com. Great to hear about this conference via Idealog. It’s only a few blocks from my house.

  19. Chickie Little
    Posted July 3, 2009 at 6:47 pm | Permalink

    I installed WordPress onto our webserver using Fantastico. I run my blog http://www.eggshellgreen.com on it.

  20. Jitendra
    Posted July 3, 2009 at 8:32 pm | Permalink

    two more sites from Vodafone NZ

    http://topmodeltalk.vodafone.co.nz
    http://view.vodafone.co.nz

  21. Lucy
    Posted July 3, 2009 at 8:44 pm | Permalink

    I have very happily used WordPress for the last three years. It’s flexibility enabling me to make design, layout, plug-in, feed (etc) changes easily as needed and at low cost is why I choose it.

  22. Craig Martin
    Posted July 5, 2009 at 1:32 pm | Permalink

    Seriouslyboard.co.nz also uses WordPress and e-commerce plugin. It’s just been live for a few weeks and still needs lots of love.

    • Jason
      Posted July 8, 2009 at 9:25 pm | Permalink

      Thanks Craig and everyone else for all of the comments. This should display as a threaded comment if I have the correct settings now.

  23. Liz
    Posted July 9, 2009 at 9:22 am | Permalink

    I recently set up a website/blog The Green Wine Guide using wordpress. It’s a site still in development that’s going to focus on eco-friendly and sustainable wines and wineries around the world.

  24. Bernard Hickey
    Posted July 13, 2009 at 1:26 pm | Permalink

    We at interest.co.nz use WordPress, but we’re thinking of changing to drupal because I’m told (because I have no idea personally) it integrates better with database driven pages such as comparison tables.

    Any dissenting views. Can you create TradeMe style comparison tables from a database. WordPress seems great for blogs, but any good for e-commerce style data-rich sites?
    cheers
    Bernard

    • Dan Milward
      Posted July 13, 2009 at 4:44 pm | Permalink

      That doesnt make any sense because drupal use MySQL database technology. You’re being conned by a drupalite ;)

      Stick with WordPress and WP e-Commerce. If you want us to develop a product comparison feature for WP e-Commerce we could do that for you.. just tell us how you want it to work and we can work out a cost etc…

      Are you thinking something along the lines of the comparison feature on dpreview.com ??

      • Bernard Hickey
        Posted July 13, 2009 at 5:17 pm | Permalink

        Dan,
        Many thanks for that. Very interesting. I’ve had a quick look at your site and testimonials etc. Looks great. We’re looking at rebuilding our interest rates comparison and news site in ‘something’ other than the jumble of wordpress and a bunch of other stuff at the moment.
        We had been warned off wordpress because of the security issues (?) and because we thought of it as a blog tool rather than a database driven comparison engine. But happy to have my mind changed. Where are you based?
        cheers
        Bernard

    • Jason
      Posted July 13, 2009 at 4:48 pm | Permalink

      Thanks Bernard, we added as much of this as we could fit to a tweet just now lets see if we can find out more. And sure enough there is a reply from Dan already.

  25. Miki Szikszai
    Posted July 15, 2009 at 9:44 pm | Permalink

    We use WordPress for the Snapper blog

    http://www.snapper.co.nz/blog

  26. Jason
    Posted July 3, 2009 at 8:01 pm | Permalink

    And quite a few more listed on @wordcampnz twitter stream as well

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