WordPress. Is it used for Digg or any high volume site?

Digg, Twitter, Facebook. Can you use WordPress to build such a site or is this not realistic?

Thanks.

 

Ok. I guess maybe hand coding with PHP is the way these sites are made.

I read Twitter uses Ruby on Rails. I will have to look into what that is exactly.

Can anyone tell me how I can find out how some of these sites are made?

Thanks.

 

Outside of the source code, it's doubtful. Most of the time it's custom coding. You can build a Digg like site using Pligg, that's not anything like WP.

If you are looking for example WP sites that are well known or high volume, here is a short list:
http://en.wordpress.com/notable-users/, and also here.

 

Thanks. I will check into those.

 

Wordpress is used by some rather large companies from what im aware.

High traffic sites.

All of those mentioned are custom built sites, dont try to convert a blogging platform into something like that.

 

for a digg style website, you can use http://www.drigg-code.org/.

you can do everything with drupal.

 

Thanks for the info.

I am not sure exactly what kind of site I want to create. I think I will have to learn PHP and create a custom site.

Perhaps Drupal can aid in my learning.

 

Drupal is excellent if you want to create a big website - but if I were you, I wouldn't aim for Digg right on. Build smaller websites first... then go for digg!

 

for facebook and twitter search google , facebook clone or twitter clone.

for digg: www.pligg.com is a free CMS which can build social bookmarking site, wp is only a blogging platform and u can use it as a CMS but wordpress is not really a CMS.

 

IT's very usefull.

 

Thanks, it useful for me!