Why it’s in the Showcase: It was recently highlighted in a case study published by the Make.WordPress.org Marketing team.

The mission of The Walt Disney Company is to be one of the world’s leading producers and providers of entertainment and information. Using our portfolio of brands to differentiate our content, services and consumer products, we seek to develop the most creative, innovative and profitable entertainment experiences and related products in the world.

Canada.com, featuring discussions about what Canadians are talking about, is owned and operated by Postmedia Network Inc., Canada’s largest publisher by circulation of paid English-language daily newspapers. canada.com complements Postmedia’s other properties including daily newspapers in cities across Canada like the Vancouver Sun, The Province, the Calgary Herald, the Edmonton Journal, the Ottawa Citizen and the National Post, as well as more than 50 destination websites.

The official site for recording artist and author Alanis Morissette.

Why it’s in the Showcase: This site organizes a large amount of information in an easily digestible format, using a healthy dose of HTML5 and JavaScript tools for fluid transitions and embellishments throughout the site.

Your source for breaking news, news about New York, sports, business, entertainment, opinion, real estate, culture, fashion, and more.

The New York Post is an American daily newspaper, primarily distributed in New York City and its surrounding area.

The Sacramento Ballet entertains, educates, inspires, and engages people through the powerful vehicle of dance. The Sacramento Ballet has taken a leadership role in outreach, education, community service and collaborative projects, and is without question, a leader in arts education and outreach in the greater Sacramento region.

Why it’s in the Showcase: The Sacramento Ballet site utilizes parallax to give the effect of the dancers moving as you scroll through the page. This unique approach allowed us to work with their vertical imagery more efficiently and give life to the design. The site is mobile responsive complete with event calendar and social media integration.

Wil is widely recognized as one of the original celebrity bloggers, and is a respected voice in the blogging community. His blog WWdN has been voted “Best Celebrity Weblog” by Forbes.com, one of the 100 most influential blogs by C|Net, and “Weblog of the Year” in the bloggies. In 2009 Forbes named him the 14th most influential web celebrity. This is all amusing to Wil, who doesn’t think of himself as a celebrity, but is instead, “just this guy, you know?”

Wil Wheaton has appeared in numerous television and film roles including Stand By Me, the hit television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, and recurring roles on TNT’s Leverage, SyFy’s Eureka, CBS’s The Big Bang Theory, The Guild, Falling Skies: Second Watch. Off-camera, he is the creator, producer, and host of the webseries Tabletop. He is also an author, blogger, podcaster, voice actor, widely-followed original Twitter user, and a champion of geek culture.

A coupon and deal savings website, started by Collin Morgan in 2008, to help herself, family, and friends save money and live frugally in a Hip and fun way. The site has grown beyond Collin’s wildest dreams and expectations and has a national audience of supportive readers.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Hip2Save has been featured as an official part of The Today Show during the semi-weekly “Jill’s Steals & Deals” segment.

SwimSwam was founded in March 2012 and is now a very popular swimming website. They have interviewed everyone from Phelps to Lochte to Ders from Workaholics. The founders are all former swimmers including one Olympic gold medalist and they are all still heavily involved in the swimming community.

Why it’s in the Showcase: The site has been using WordPress since the beginning which allowed it to scale rapidly as it gained in popularity. We have managed to stick with WordPress on one dedicated server through our huge spikes and stories going viral.  The ease of WordPress has also allowed us to bring in over 50 writers so far and have them up and running in minutes.

The official site for rapper and actor LL Cool J.

Why it’s in the Showcase: This simple one-page scrolling site with amazing imagery and AJAX-loading content allows for a clean and user friendly experience.

Recognized and respected throughout the world of show business, Variety is the premier source of entertainment news. Since 1905, the most influential leaders in the industry have turned to Variety for timely, credible and straightforward news and analysis — information vital to their professions. And, since 1933, unchallenged industry leader Daily Variety has been required reading for key showbiz players, delivering breaking news, exclusive scoops and must-read features. Industry vanguard Variety is the sum of a number of information products. Daily Variety Gotham uniquely delivers same-day national and global entertainment news with expanded coverage of New York’s entertainment market. Variety‘s Internet site also serves top industry professionals with a wide array of tools and up-to-the-minutes data sources.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Variety.com offers searchable archives, interactive box office charting, international box office grosses, a credits database, film and television production charts, in-depth industry calendar, and Variety reviews, some dating back to the 1914.Variety extended its brand with the launch of its state-of-the-art web site, Variety.com, in 1998. Variety‘s cyberspace home contains the entire contents of Daily Variety and Variety.Updated daily with content available the night prior to the print edition hitting the street, the web site is a must for those serious about staying on top of the industry.

Presenting Britain’s best shows and groundbreaking American originals, BBC America is home to brilliant television from both sides of the pond.

Why it’s in the Showcase: This giant WordPress Multisite install is the home for all the BBC America shows. Each site has its own child theme which is powered by the main framework.

Why it’s in the Showcase: The website has significance due to the significance of Riverdance itself. Since 1994, the Riverdance theatrical show has: * Played over 10,000 performances * Been seen live by over 23 million people in over 350 venues worldwide, throughout 45 countries across 6 continents * Played to a global television audience of 2 billion people.

The site makes use of custom post types and taxonomies for tours and shows, and is part of a multisite install that facilitates different language versions of the site, the first one being cn.riverdance.com in Chinese.

Why it’s in the Showcase: The site features a clean, well-designed theme and uses custom post types and some additional customization to allow users to search through hundreds of omitted films from the awards.

Why it’s in the Showcase: This website promotes the film Quadrophenia, a movie based on the album by The Who. It integrates social media, photo galleries, videos, and user-submitted content all within one WordPress-powered hub.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Pousta uses WordPress to create an image-heavy culture and arts magazine for the Spanish-speaking community. The site features a jQuery slider, topic-based article landing pages, and social media integration.

Why it’s in the Showcase: The Campfire Film Foundation website uses a custom developed WordPress theme and WordPress as a CMS to create a directory of films and film festivals for educators and filmmakers.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Pop ‘stache was built entirely in WordPress from the ground up using a custom theme and plugins. The site is gaining serious momentum in the Chicago music scene and is the main media sponsor for an official Lollapalooza pre-show.

Why it’s in the Showcase: The site serves as a portal between author and fans giving insight into Sherrilyn’s life and allowing followers from around the globe to connect with her and each other. It uses a customised WordPress theme to tie together the Series, Novels and Characters components.

Why it’s in the Showcase: The blog features a theme that has been customised to reflect the eeriness of its content.

Why it’s in the Showcase: The Heavy Men’s network attracts millions of visitors and uses WordPress to showcase videos from around the internet.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Russell’s website provides access to his blog, podcast, fansite, tour dates, and multiple social media accounts.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Gastronauts features a well-branded custom theme that uses jQuery, custom post types, sticky posts, and custom fonts to bring together brave foodies.

Lollapalooza is an annual music festival featuring popular heavy metal, alternative rock, punk rock , and hip hop bands, dance and comedy performances, and craft booths.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Lollapalooza is a world-famous music festival and uses WordPress to power its website, which includes information on the festival’s line-up, FAQs, and more.

FoxTrot is a comic strip centered around the chaotic Fox family with its three kids, two parents and a perpetually hungry pet iguana. While just about any topic is possible fodder, the humor in FoxTrot tends toward the geeky, with occasional forays into the super geeky. FoxTrot began its published life April 10, 1988 as a seven-day-a-week newspaper strip. It started with about 70 client papers and creeped up to about 1000 at its peak. In 2007, I cut the strip back to Sundays-only in order to free up time for other things and to generally preserve what sanity I had left.

Why it’s in the Showcase: FoxTrot is a well-known comic strip with a website powered by WordPress.

Bloginity.com focuses on entertainment news content and is updated between 50 and 75 times daily. This content covers a wide range of entertainment while focusing on the hottest trends and breaking news.

Why it’s in the Showcase: The WordPress-powered Bloginity.com offers a flexible platform that allows the site’s team to publish and manage a large amount of content and present it in a visually appealing way. The site’s developers constantly tweak colors, positions, fonts, and other things to optimize bounce rates and LTV (life tame value) of users.

Star Wars is an American epic space opera franchise conceived by George Lucas. The first film in the franchise was originally released on May 25, 1977, by 20th Century Fox, and became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon, followed by two sequels, released at three-year intervals. Sixteen years after the release of the trilogy’s final film, the first in a new prequel trilogy of films was released, again released at three-year intervals, with the final film released on May 19, 2005.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Star Wars is one of the most popular movie series of all time and the series’ official blog is powered by WordPress.

As the first and most prestigious awards devoted to honoring excellence in web television, the Streamy Awards identify and celebrate the pioneers laying the groundwork for a new and dynamic entertainment medium. The Streamy Awards ceremony brings together the top talent, decision-makers and influencers shaping online entertainment, and awards are presented for the past years’ best achievements in 35 categories spanning multiple disciplines.

Why it’s in the Showcase: The Streamy Awards site is a unique implementation of WordPress as a content management system and employs top and side bar navigation, multiple categories of blog styles, and Cufon across the site

Improv Everywhere causes scenes of chaos and joy in public places. Created in August of 2001 by Charlie Todd, Improv Everywhere has executed over 100 missions involving tens of thousands of undercover agents. The group is based in New York City.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Improv Everywhere is world famous and uses WordPress to power its website.

Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins is a Grammy Award-winning songwriter, record producer, and musician. He has been requested by such artists as Michael Jackson, Jennifer Lopez, Janet Jackson, Britney Spears, Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, Pussycat Dolls, Whitney Houston, Mary J. Blige and Lionel Richie.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Rodney Jerkins is a notable individual within the music industry and chose WordPress to power his entire website. Additionally, the site uses the WordPress framework to create login-based access to exclusive content like webisodes and music downloads.

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.

Everything you ever wanted to know about dogs and the people who love them!

A popular Icelandic post-rock band with melodic, classical and minimalist elements.

DanceCircus is a dynamic, theatrical circus company and a professional entertainment management service – providing a vast array of spectacular performances for stage or street.

Our stylish stage shows and popular roving acts can be seen at corporate events, private parties, advertising & publicity events, television, festivals, street fairs, parades and more – here in Sydney and throughout Australasia.

COED is the leading college news and lifestyle destination. Your source for everything college, breaking news, entertainment, sports, gaming and girls. Home of Miss COED.