The White House has been using open source CMSs since 2009, and WordPress since 2018. In 2021, the Biden administration chose to continue using WordPress for their new site.

thisisFINLAND forms an attractive window on Finland for everyone interested in our country, its culture and its people.

Produced by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland and published by the Finland Promotion Board, thisisFINLAND was originally established in 1995 as Virtual Finland.

Amnesty International Korea – Promoting and Defending Human Rights in Korea and around the world.

Why it’s in the Showcase: This website is made by WordPress Multisite as a CMS. There are many different kinds of contents and applications. Users can easily donate and get involved in promoting and defending Human Rights.

Slow Food is an international movement founded by Carlo Petrini in 1986. Promoted as an alternative to fast food, it strives to preserve traditional and regional cuisine and encourages farming of plants, seeds and livestock characteristic of the local ecosystem.

The Canadian Olympic Committee is the official site providing information about coaches and athletes with media and links, and is the private, non-profit organization representing Canadian athletes in the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Pan American Games.

Acumen.org is the website and online hub for Acumen, a non-profit that raises charitable donations to invest in companies, leaders and ideas that are changing the way the world tackles poverty. The site’s primary goals are to raise awareness around Acumen’s mission, create opportunities for engagement, receive donations and recognize the people who are creating real solutions to poverty.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Acumen.org maximizes WordPress’s plattform to create an easy-to-use CMS that beautifully aligns with Acumen’s brand. The site is developed in HTML5 and includes the latest in ajax loading, infinity scrolling and javascript functionality. WordPress Custom Post Types make content creation straight-forward and easy to use. A number of custom plug-ins maximize social media sharing opportunities throughout the site. A custom tagging system aggregates blog content to pre-determined sections throughout the site. The backend includes full integration with Google Analytics as well as Acumen’s CRM plattform, Convio, which allows for a seamless donation process as well as easy contact list building.

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: The site uses WordPress as a CMS to bring together a community of fans.

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 entire website is a WordPress MultiSite installation customized to fit the needs of the publisher. Behind the scenes there are custom user profiles, Facebook Connect, blogs for authors, custom sub-sites that are used as discussion forums, and MailChimp integration.

Why it’s in the Showcase: The site’s simple, handwritten-style design uniquely reflects the humanistic nature of process work.

A site from the Swiss government with the latest research, workouts, and lesson plans for coaches and PE teachers for over 60 types of sports and physical activities. Available in three languages (German, French, Italian).

Why it’s in the Showcase: The Swiss government used WordPress as a CMS to power this expansive website, which is used by a wide variety of fitness and sporting professionals across the country.

The official social network site for the members of Greek Schools’ Network (schools, teachers and students). A place to discuss and exchange ideas and to blog.

Why it’s in the Showcase: Greek Schools’ network is the largest educational-focused BuddyPress installation in Greece. It currently has approximately 7,500 members and has the potential to grow much larger.

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.

Foreign Policy Blogs is a fast-growing network of blogs on global issues hosted by the Foreign Policy Association. Currently you will find the most recent posts from our team of Great Decisions Bloggers for 2007, featuring the Middle East, Climate Change, Mexico, Migration, South Africa, War Crimes, Central Asia and Children’s Rights.  We’ve also added an Election 2008 blog that is monitoring foreign policy issues related to the Democratic and Republic primary contests for the 2008 U.S.  presidential election.  Stay tuned for 2008 Great Decisions blogs on Iraq, the European Union, U.S. Diplomacy, Russia, U.S. Defense Policy, Latin America, U.S.-China Trade and Philanthropy.