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.”

Matador is the world’s first fully-interactive travel magazine. It is both an online travel magazine and a thriving social network. Or, more simply put, it’s a community.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Matador is made up of a number WordPress blogs that work together to provide content on a variety of travel-related topics.The site averages more than 1.8 million monthly pageviews.

Golf Royalty is an online hub for Golfers the world over. Offering innovative and dynamic reviews of Irish Golf Courses, Interactive Irish Golf Maps and the latest news and reviews, Golf Royalty is fast becoming the most important Golfing website in Ireland and beyond.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Golf Royalty is a well-designed, content-rich site that uses WordPress as a CMS to display news and information about golf courses around the world.

Why it’s in the Showcase: The Vancouver Contention Centre’s official website is well designed, easy to navigate, and rich in useful content. It is a great use of WordPress as a CMS.

The web is a great place to research and book holidays, but sometimes the sheer volume of choice can be overwhelming and confusing. There is too much information out there, and not enough hard-earned wisdom. That’s why we created 101 Holidays, to provide a unique selection of some of the world’s greatest travel experiences. Each of the holidays on this website has been carefully researched, and individually chosen by two of Britain’s leading travel writers, David Wickers and Mark Hodson. Launched in January 2009, 101 Holidays was named by The Times as one of the year’s 10 Hot Websites.

Why it’s in the Showcase: 101 Holidays uses WordPress as a content management system to show pictures, highlight quotes, categorize vacations by experience, price, and destination, and more.

Why it’s in the Showcase: The WordPress powered web site features an appealing design, photos automatically pulled from Flickr, a photo submission feature, and easy access to information on what to do and where to stay on the Oregon Coast.

Declared a National Historic Landmark in 1978, Timberline Lodge is one of Oregon’s most popular tourist attractions, drawing more than two million visitors every year. Considered an architectural wonder, it’s still being used for its original intent—a magnificent ski lodge and mountain retreat for all to enjoy.

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British Columbia – The Best Place on Earth

Late Night Live’s Phillip Adams spent two weeks in Timor-Leste meeting the people and investigating the politics and culture of the world’s newest nation.

He gathered material for a special series of radio programs broadcast on Radio National’s Late Night Live in October, November and December 2007.

Throughout the trip Phillip had a daily online presence via this blog, featuring video and audio postcards, photos, interview clips and Phillip’s travel diary – all posted live, on location.