It’s raining themes

Never ones to sit back and do nothing we’ve been sewing away to create you some great new themes.  This week is our crazy theme a day for 4 days and so far you’ve been introduced to 3 of our new ones – Business Blog, Business Feature and Business Portfolio.

Here’s a sneak download link and preview for the 4th we’ll be releasing tomorrow Business Services.

We’re so pleased to release these themes this week and look forward to seeing what people create with them.  If you do use them please link in the forum to show us what you create.

Daily tips this week

Over at wpmu.org there were some great tips for BuddyPress:

Add a Google Buzz Button to BuddyPress Activities in Under a Minute

Daily Tip: Silence the “BuddyPress is Ready” Message in the WordPress Dashboard

How to Disable the BuddyPress Admin Buddy Bar

BuddyDress themes are all 100% GPL

Before we go we’d like to remind you all that our themes are all 100% GPL compliant.  We know it’s been a topic lately with other theme companies and would like to just remind all our current users and potential users we support GPL just like WordPress and BuddyPress and all our themes are licensed with GPL.

Well that was this week’s Friday Find – don’t forget if you’ve got any BuddyPress related news you want to share or sites you’d like us to include in our showcases just let us know.

Incoming BuddyPress 1.2.4 update

It seems BuddyPress 1.2.4 is close enough to smell now with this declaration:

“John said that 1.2.4 will be out the door by the end of the week, along with the Followers plugin. WordPress 3.0 coming out before BuddyPress 1.3. BuddyPress 1.2.4 will come with better WordPress 3.0 support, so that BP doesn’t break when you upgrade core WP. There are 3 defect tickets for the 1.2.4 release at the moment, and Paul Gibbs asked the core developers to consider some of the enhancement tickets that have patches attached.” – Paul Gibbs

The future of themeing in BuddyPress

It seems there are some changing incoming with the theme whilst nothing has been set this was announced in the developer update:

“John announced that whilst the default BuddyPress theme won’t change for 1.3, another Automattic designer, Kevin Conboy (who did the Poll Daddy redesign) has been drafted in to develop future BP themes. John wants to see special themes to help draw out specific functionality in each of the components.” – Paul Gibbs

Further insight into this comes from this comment by Andy:

“AFAIK Kevin is just working on some design stuff in his spare time, the fact he works for Automattic is moot.” – Andy P

WordPress 3.0 Beta 2 has landed

It’s been a while since the first beta but beta 2 has now dropped for WordPress 3.0.

This week’s tips and links from wpmu.org

As is custom with the Friday Find’s here’s a round up of the great tips and links over at wpmu.org this week:

‘New BuddyPress Plugin Adds Ajax Profile Previews to Avatars’
‘How to Widgetize Your WordPress / BuddyPress 404 Page in 2 Simple Steps’
‘Daily tip: How to Remove the BuddyPress is Read Message in the WordPress Dashboard’
‘Monitor Your Site in Stealth Mode Like a BuddyPress Ninja’

So there you have it another Friday Find. If you’ve got a link you want to share or something you want featured in a Friday Find just add a comment or use our contact form.