Discover Studio….

Studio is all about pushing boundaries and going beyond what we have in the past.  We have listened hard to what people want from a BuddyPress theme.  We created Studio in response to the great feedback we’ve had about our other themes.

Deeper than just looks…

On the surface it looks simple but modern, however it’s underneath where the true power of Studio lies.  Studio truly is more than just a pretty face – why not try our demo to find out for yourself?

Studio lets you decide with lots of theme options to have things your way…

We always make sure you can add things like content and slide shows and Studio is no different just take a look here at some of the content options:

• Feature content blocks – 3 content areas that take images, titles, links and descriptions
• Footer content blocks – 3 content areas that take images, titles, links and descriptions
• Slide show - add your own images
• Global header – Header call to action section
• Call to action - Sign up section
• Build your home page – Turn on and off sections to build up your own home page how you want it
• Sliding Community Panel – built into the theme is a simple BuddyPress Community Sliding Panel based on the JQuery script at the heart of Sarah’s wonderful plugin.
• Footer – Footer links and Google analytics – you can now add these easily without coding
• Template – A blog / news template

The features don’t stop there with Studio though…

• Google Font Directory – we built in the ability to use Google’s Font Directory
• Simple SEO – a simple global title, description and keywords SEO feature built into the theme
• Widgets by the ton - literally a widget for every occasion
• Color options - 4 built in color schemes or use our color pickers to create your own
• Branding options – add your own logo
• Standard WordPress and BuddyPress features built in – custom image headers, WP3 navigation, featured images, threaded comments, parent and child themes and multiple languages… tons more and great support also – what more could you want?

We also made sure it doesn’t just work well for BuddyPress it also looks great too and keeps with the rest of the theme styling no matter where you are on the site.

FootyBible : Visit site

Blog Bowler : Visit site

If you’re using one of our themes and would like your site featured just drop us a comment or contact us using our form or the forums – we’d love to hear from you.

Lets start today with Business Services:

Culture 360 : Visit site

FilmMaker.com : Visit site

Neoncon : Visit site

Dahlia xn : Visit site

Kodingen : Visit site

Tasty Kitchen : visit site

We’re always on the look out for great BuddyPress sites so just let us know if you’ve got a site you’d like featured.

BuddyPress growing up

Jeff Sayre considers ‘BuddyPress Beginning to Mature At the Right Time’. He makes some good points mainly around the ‘users have had enough of one size fits all social networks’. It’s worth a read particularly if you are thinking about or run a social network.

Theme relations

Justin Tadlock explores the age old chestnut of ‘Parent, child and grandchild themes’.

In wpmu.org this week

Lets have a round up of some of the great posts from WPMU.org you may have missed.

Daily Tip: Support the WordPress and BuddyPress Projects by Voting in the Open Source Awards

BuddyPress News: Pagetrace Plugin Helps with Debugging and Development

BuddyPress Courseware Beta Now Available for Download

New BuddyPress Tweet Button Plugin – Download Here

Daily Tip: Help Users Get Connected with BuddyPress Registration groups

So, there we have it – another Friday Find. Hope you all had a great week and have a great weekend.

Business Services does exactly what the name suggests – it is a great way to show the services you offer.  This theme though goes beyond that and can adapt easily to suit a range of sites and requirements.  Based on the design of wp.mu it focuses on adverts and featuring services.  There are a whole host of methods that it uses from images through to links to do this.  We’ve also made sure if you want to use BuddyPress it works out of the box with that too.

So, what about the features?  Business Services comes packed:

• Set a main feature image
• Header feature section – set a title, description and link
• Page feature section – set a title, description and link
• Feature posts – set a title, number of posts, pick a category and have your images automatically appear
• Sidebar news – set a category, number of posts and title – shows the images automatically for those posts.
• Adverts – set a large advert, small footer adverts – set an image, title and also link
• Join now feature – create a custom join now block with message and set the link

WordPress latest features:

• Blog / news template
• Threaded comments styling
• Post thumbnails
• WordPress 3.0 menus
• Drop down menus – automatically appear if you have multiple levels
• Works for WordPress, Multisite and with or without BuddyPress

Create your own style of Business Services:

• Custom logo – set image, square logo and text or just text
• Create your own colours – use a simple colour picker or select a font from the drop down to change links, headers and other global features.
• Parent and child theme

Business Services makes sure you get a great theme not just on the WordPress parts, here is what the activity stream looks like:

There really has never been a better time to be a member than this week see here how insanely cheap being a member of BuddyDress is.

Business Blog is the perfect blogging theme for the perfect blogging platform that is WordPress.  Whether you just want to blog for your business, personally or you want to build a community around your blog using BuddyPress, Business Blog delivers great functionality.  Business Blog is based on the design of one of the top WordPress, WordPress multisite and BuddyPress blogs – wpmu.org.

Business Blog has a ton of features that are worth writing home about:

• Set various titles: RSS, news
• Set front category
• Adverts – set an image, link and title for adverts on your site
• Useful links – set the title, description and link
• RSS feeds – automatically place 5 RSS feeds and show their latest posts just enter the feed
• Add text to your BuddyPress panel
• CSS3 non image gradient navigation – reverts to just blocked on non supporting browsers

Business Blog is built with WordPress at it’s core:

• Blog / news template
• Threaded comments styling
• Post thumbnails
• WordPress 3.0 menus
• Works for WordPress, Multisite and with or without BuddyPress

Create your own Business Blog style:

• Custom logo – set image, square logo and text or just text
• Create your own colours – use a simple colour picker or select a font from the drop down to change links, headers and other global features.
• Parent and child theme
• Works for WordPress, Multisite and with or without BuddyPress

Business Blog isn’t just about the WordPress pages or a great looking home page, it has built in great styling for BuddyPress – take a look at the activity stream:

There really has never been a better time to be a member than this week see here how insanely cheap being a member of BuddyDress is.