Ride Oregon is the official site for Travel Oregon’s (the Oregon Tourism Commission) focus on cycling-related travel and tourism in the state.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Ride Oregon integrates WordPress and BuddyPress to showcase mountain biking trails, road rides, and cycling events around the state. In addition, it allows people to save rides they want to do and mark rides they’ve done so others can contact them about the ride. All Trails, Road Routes, Events, Resources and Rides We Love are handled as separate posts within WordPress.

BuddyPress is used to create and manage users and to allow them send messages to each other. It was customized to allow users to rate the bike routes and save them to a trip they had planned, mark whether the user has done or wants to do a ride, and track all rides and events submitted by a user.

According to the developers, “We used WordPress and BuddyPress for its ease of installation and flexibility. For this site, we needed multiple categories of data segmentation along with member profile account management, which made WordPress MU and BuddyPress a great option.”

Tasty Kitchen is simple, just the way it should be! To search for specific recipes (Lasagna, Eggs Benedict, Chocolate Chip Cookies), just type the recipe in the search field at the top of the page. Or you can browse recipes by category: Main Dishes, Breakfast, Soups, Desserts, to name a few. Just take a look around and familiarize yourself. New recipes will be added every day.

Why it’s in the Showcase: The Tasty Kitchen is a well-designed, highly functional use of BuddyPress and WordPress. It lets members interact with each other, search recipes, and share their own cooking tips.

At Petomundo, we care about animals. We care about helping pets find good homes and live happy lives. Petomundo.com offers a place where you and pet-owners alike can learn more about pets, donate to official pet charities and discover an entire online community of people who are passionate about animals.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Petomundo uses BuddyPress to power its growing community and WordPress MU to provide a variety of pet-related content to visitors.

Why it’s in the Showcase: While the main part of VW’s TankWars site is powered by WordPress, the most interesting aspect of the site is its use of BuddyPress. Each driver’s profile (see the site’s “Leaderboard” on the right) contains their best milage score and rankings. Users can upload photos, vote on profiles, and leave comments.

GigaOM Pro is a WordPress/BuddyPress-powered premium research membership site, focused on four initial verticals: Mobile, Green IT, Infrastructure, and the Connected Consumer. A network of independent analysts provide in-depth research papers and research notes, which subscribers can view on the site or download as PDF documents.

Why it’s in the Showcase: According to developer Mark Jaquith, “the Write screen for Curated Links looks nothing like the Write screen for Weekly Updates or Research Briefs.” Jaquith also commented on how the installation makes heavy use of WordPress’ category system and custom WP_Query objects and loops.

WannaNetwork.com is an online real estate networking community created to help industry professionals expand their reach and enable business opportunities through social media.

Why it’s in the Showcase: WannaNetwork.com uses WordPress MU, bbPress, and BuddyPress to easily power a comprehensive and seamless professional networking site.

Welcome to We Heart This, your one-stop source for all things worth loving! You have found THE place to discuss and discover things guaranteed to make your heart pound. We are dedicated to shamelessly discussing the stuff we adore; obsessing about the trivial right along with raving about the substantial. We cater to the savvy, modern woman. Someone who enjoys making informed purchases, uses her creativity to solve problems and looks forward to life’s little joys and sharing them with others. Someone just like you!

Why it’s in the Showcase: We Heart This is a major and well executed implementation of BuddyPress and WordPress. It also features a bbPress forum and a wide variety of original content.

Unstructure is an open discussion platform for business professionals, bloggers and contemporary thought leaders to discuss and debate action ideas that would aid the evolution of business.

flokka is a place for women in business and leadership… start-ups, mom-preneurs, solo-preneurs, intra-preneurs, self-employed, partners, business owners, managers, directors, CEOs, thought leaders, professionals and those dreaming of starting their own business… whether you work from home or city offices; whether you are based in the South Island of New Zealand or Manhattan; New York and whatever you do… this is a place for you.

flokka is designed to inspire, encourage and develop you and your business with practical and valuable business related resources, advice and tips.

flokka gives you a platform to promote both you and your business, develop new client relationships, make business alliances, and to give and receive referrals, support and encouragement.

flokka is also a community for women who want to make a difference… who want to influence positive change in their sphere of business, family and community lives… flokka gives you the platform to be heard, enter conversations and create dialogue.