Jason just wrote in that Ford Motor Company has launched a WordPress site, and it’s pretty kickass. How cool that the first Fortune 5 company to use WP goes beyond just a regular blog and really shows what can be done with a powerful framework. ¶
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Matt Mullenweg is one of PC World’s Top 50 People on the Web, Inc.com’s 30 under 30, and Business Week’s 25 Most Influential People on the Web. 
Kishore Balakrishnan | January 8th, 2007 @ 5:57 pm |
Dear Mark
You should write to them about using pretty permalinks
Cheers, Kishore.
Justin Moore | January 8th, 2007 @ 6:00 pm |
All that time and money and they can’t even figure out how to enable permalinks. Geez.
Daniel Jalkut | January 8th, 2007 @ 6:03 pm |
Cool! But they need to update to 2.0.6
shelby | January 8th, 2007 @ 6:08 pm |
Thats pretty sweet that they are using it … and not to mention they have made it look pretty nice too.
Keith | January 8th, 2007 @ 6:27 pm |
Hmmm… It’s a shame they don’t actually *credit* Wordpress
(But I’ve had a poke around and it’s definately a WP install 
)
Matt | January 8th, 2007 @ 6:33 pm |
Hey guys there is nothing that says they need a visible credit, they left it in the headers and such.
Darren | January 8th, 2007 @ 7:10 pm |
The thing I’d like to know is how much the designer/team of designers were paid by Ford to prepare the site and how in the know the guys with the money were about the core of the design?
Still, it’s a great work on their layout!
Eli Burford | January 8th, 2007 @ 7:18 pm |
Not a bad looking theme that, but I don’t really like their multi-colored links. I like everyone else here, also noticed they don’t use pretty permalinks :p, that would have been nicer.
Justin Kozuch | January 8th, 2007 @ 7:35 pm |
Nice site. I’m sure they will figure out the permalinks soon.
However, this may shed some light on why they may not be using them:
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.ford.com
jcwinnie | January 8th, 2007 @ 8:05 pm |
Tell ‘em who you are and maybe they’ll give you a deal on an Airstream http://www.autobloggreen.com/2007/01/08/ford-airstream-concept-a-shiny-hydrogen-powered-phev-funmobile/
Chris | January 8th, 2007 @ 8:50 pm |
Except, you might want to try the one for the actual domain of the blog:
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=autoshows.ford.com
Jonathan | January 8th, 2007 @ 9:44 pm |
They removed the DOCTYPE. Strange.
Luis Rull | January 9th, 2007 @ 10:57 am |
Chris, jcwinnie: explain it.
RyanB | January 9th, 2007 @ 5:02 pm |
That is cool that Jason found this, but how did he? Just by noticing the p=3 in the URL and checking the source?
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Luis Rull | July 18th, 2007 @ 5:13 am |
Ford también lo usó para una feria de coches… http://photomatt.net/2007/01/08/ford-uses-wordpress/
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