Puffbox

I had a bit of a brainwave earlier, which led me to wondering how many MPs run websites on WordPress. Taking as my starting point the Total Politics directory of Parliamentarians’ blogs, I soon received a number of extra suggestions from Twitter folks… leading me to the following list of MPs whose blogs (or non-blog websites) are powered by WordPress:

• Alan Johnson – although he hasn’t updated since, er, April.
• Adam Price
• Ben Bradshaw
• Bruce George – WordPress running within Joomla 😕
• Chris Huhne
• David Amess
• David Evennett
• David Jones (at wordpress.com, with custom domain)
• David Kidney (at wordpress.com, quiet since March)
• David Lidington (at wordpress.com)
• David Willetts
• Eddie McGrady (needs fixing)
• Gisela Stuart
• Graham Stuart (Atahualpa theme)
• Helen Goodman
• Henry Bellingham (Sandbox theme)
• Hilary Armstrong (at wordpress.com)
• Jim Hood
• John Redwood
• Liam Byrne (at wordpress.com)
• Lynne Featherstone (by yours truly)
• Mike Gapes
• Ming Campbell – Kubrick theme. Old-school. 😉
• Nick Brown (Atahualpa theme)
• Oliver Heald (on wordpress.com)
• Oliver Letwin – not a blog, a series of ‘letters in West Dorset papers’
• Paul Clark (wpremix theme)
• Rob Marris
• Richard Benyon
• Sion Simon
• Steve Pound (on wordpress.com)
• Sylvia Hermon
• Tom Harris
• Tom Watson

If anyone knows any more, I’d love to add them to the list. Oh, and for the record… with such low take-up (so far), my brainwave may be a little ahead of its time.

Update: a special thanks to Danny Dagan (whose Blogminster project is in development) and PSF’s Ian Cuddy for providing a load of new ones I didn’t know about, even one or two at Cabinet level. I now count three Cabinet ministers on WordPress: Messrs Byrne, Bradshaw and Johnson… plus Nick Brown, who ‘attends’ Cabinet as chief whip, but isn’t ‘in’ it.