Title: Enterprise
Author: WordPress.org
Published: December 23, 2019
Last modified: October 8, 2025

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# Enterprise

The WordPress platform has grown to become the dominant market leader for content
management. Discover how today's biggest brands use WordPress, and how WordPress
can work for your enterprise.

![Sun logo](https://wordpress.org/files/2023/01/Sun.webp)

![People logo](https://wordpress.org/files/2023/01/People.webp)

![Reader's Digest logo](https://wordpress.org/files/2023/01/RD.webp)

![WWD logo](https://wordpress.org/files/2023/01/WWD.webp)

![Variety logo](https://wordpress.org/files/2023/01/Variety.webp)

![Time Magazine logo](https://wordpress.org/files/2023/12/time-magazine.webp)

![TED logo](https://wordpress.org/files/2023/01/TED.webp)

![Facebook logo](https://wordpress.org/files/2023/01/facebook.webp)

![Microsoft logo](https://wordpress.org/files/2023/01/Microsoft.webp)

![CNN logo](https://wordpress.org/files/2023/01/CNN.webp)

## Enterprise use cases

Whether as a primary or secondary content management system (CMS), you'll find WordPress
being used by enterprises at scale wherever there's a requirement for flexible, 
cost-effective, and secure creation and distribution of content. Explore some of
the platform's most popular use cases for enterprises:

### Media and publishing

WordPress powers the sites people visit multiple times every day for news, information,
and entertainment.

### E-commerce

Organizations around the world choose WordPress as their e-commerce solution of 
choice.

### Content marketing

WordPress will help you get your brand's story in front of your potential customers
quickly and easily.

### Higher education

Educational institutions use WordPress to power everything, from a departmental 
blog to an entire university system.

![Extensibility icon](https://wordpress.org/files/2023/01/Extensibility.png)

## Extensibility

Enterprise-level extensions for WordPress span a broad range of functionality, from
enhanced search and advanced on-page SEO, to AI-driven content augmentation and 
developer power tools.

![Security icon](https://wordpress.org/files/2023/01/Security.png)

## Security

WordPress has strict security standards that make it a popular CMS for enterprise
companies around the world. While its popularity might make it a target, it has 
proven itself as a secure platform.

![Open Source icon](https://wordpress.org/files/2023/01/Open_Source.png)

## Open source

WordPress is open source software. This means the source code is made freely available
and may be distributed and modified subject to the GPL license.

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### Case studies

 * [Abril (PDF)](https://wordpress.org/files/2020/11/case-studies-grupo-abril.pdf)
 * [KFF (PDF)](https://wordpress.org/files/2020/11/case-studies-kff.pdf)
 * [NewsCorp Australia (PDF)](https://wordpress.org/files/2020/11/case-studies-newscorp-australia.pdf)

### White paper references

 * [IDC Report (PDF)](https://wordpress.org/files/2020/11/IDC-Report-Choosing-a-CMS-to-Meet-Todays-Digital-Experience-Challenges.pdf)
 * [WP as a Content Hub (PDF)](https://wordpress.org/files/2020/11/wordpress-as-a-content-hub-whitepaper.pdf)
 * [Personalization (PDF)](https://wordpress.org/files/2020/11/Personalization-whitepaper.pdf)

### Tutorials

 * [Drive Digital Commerce](https://vimeo.com/443114625/c2f798174f)
 * [Gutenberg for Enterprise](https://vimeo.com/374961815/040fe06be7)
 * [Lead a Successful Digital Transformation](https://vimeo.com/425968597/80d24a1bf4)

### Additional case studies

 * [Unified WordPress with PMC (PDF)](https://wordpress.org/files/2023/10/Penske-Media-Corporation-Case-Study.pdf)
 * [Massive Multisite with SAP News (PDF)](https://wordpress.org/files/2023/10/SAP-News-Case-Study.pdf)
 * [.NET to WordPress with ArtsHub (PDF)](https://wordpress.org/files/2023/10/ArtsHub-Case-Study.pdf)

 * [Drupal to WordPress with Capgemini (PDF)](https://wordpress.org/files/2023/10/Capgemini-Case-Study.pdf)
 * [Academic Partnerships (PDF)](https://wordpress.org/files/2023/10/Academic-Partnerships-Case-Study.pdf)
 * [Revolutionizing Performance and Editorial (PDF)](https://wordpress.org/files/2023/10/News-Corp-Australia-Case-Study.pdf)

 * [Moving a Pharmacy Leader to WordPress (PDF)](https://wordpress.org/files/2023/10/Enterprise-Pharmacy-Case-Study.pdf)
 * [AEM to WordPress with Siemens (PDF)](https://wordpress.org/files/2023/10/Siemens-Case-Study.pdf)
 * [Ten Years of DisneyABCPress Success (PDF)](https://wordpress.org/files/2023/10/DisneyABCPress-Case-Study.pdf)