Four Cool WP .gov Sites
Asides
I was in Washington DC last week at the OpenGovDC conference where I participated on a panel about design. The organizers and many of the speakers were pretty Drupal-focused, but I did get to meet some folks and learn about the ever-growing use of WordPress inside the Beltway. Here are four:
- CFPB, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. This is the best-looking of the four, and 100% WordPress.
- MO.gov, Missouri State. Is there a LESS.gov?
The show-me state has a solid WP-as-CMS going here. - Office of Compliance. As exciting as it sounds.
- NCCS.gov, National Center for Computational Sciences. Website is okay, but center is super-cool: they provide super-computing (tens of thousands of processors) for open scientific research.
Any other favorites? Particularly well-designed ones like consumerfinance.gov.
Nice Collection…. WP looking to rule everywhere.
Not U.S.-based, but the Bank of Canada runs its site on WordPress.
Hi Matt,
I don’t know if this qualifies… http://www.manitobatriplep.ca/
It is a government (of Canada) site for a programme they are running.
Have you seen the list of colleges using WordPress that Jay Collier has put together?
It’s a pretty impressive and growing list: https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AnN5FWMlt7YEdDR4cEVVMHpwRDB3N3BpN0g1eVZqblE&hl=en_US
Hadn’t seen that, it is a substantial list.
One more cool designed gov website from Serbia on WordPress http://www.digitalnaagenda.gov.rs/
I’m shocked that they exist! Most gov sites are drupal, drupal, drupal, and until now the only “government” sites I saw sporting WordPress were campaign sites (which was sad IMHO as they looked a lot better than the Drupal ones, especially on mobile).
Is there a way to add these to the “Showcase” section of WP.org? Perhaps it may help convince a few officials to make the switch!
We have a government tag but it is a little sparse still: http://wordpress.org/showcase/tag/government/
Currently it is :
Popular Tags
* CMS (151)
* People (95)
* Business (69)
* etc
It will be really great and *useful*
if Gov is added just after CMS or People since we all are under some sort of a Gov.
Popular Tags
* CMS (151)
* Gov (53)
* People (95)
* Business (69)
* etc
It’s ordered by number of sites, so we just need more government sites in the showcase for it to show up.
http://www.compliance.gov/ is my favorite in this list
I ♥ minimalism.
Not great design by good content, here is a site by Government of Karnataka built on wordpress… http://www.mysoredasara.gov.in/ built for a ten day festival prominently known as ‘Navarathri’.
Nice stuff dude, shows the level in which WordPress has grown and is still growing
What’s the best way to tell if a site is WordPress? I usually just try to type /wp-admin at the end of the URL but that doesn’t always work
I usually view source and look for references to wp-content, or add /feed and see the generator statement. I feel like there’s a Chrome extension that does it too.
Actually there are two: Chrome Sniffer and Wappalyzer(beta)
When I’m not sure, I do the same: view source and look for wp-content…
… And sometimes I know it’s WP even from SERP 
) it’s easy to spot the permalink year/month/day/postname 
But most of the time I just guess… simple by the site look, the links structure and the permalinks
They are great. The 3rd one features graphics from the 90s, doesn’t it…
I love how the office of compliance is talking about the use of space heaters on the first day of summer! Go government!
I developed http://50.usaid.gov