We hope you enjoy it and discover this great theme a bit more through it.

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.

Discover Portfolio

Business Portfolio brings elegance and simplicity to your WordPress site enabling you to showcase your content.  Perfect for a business yet stylish enough for an artist – that is Business Portfolio.  Based on the design of the Incsub company website – Business Portfolio brings simple class to your website.  It’s all about ease with Business Portfolio and we’ve even made it work for BuddyPress out of the box.

Elegance and features… what more could you want?

Here are just some of the great features of Business Portfolio:

• Home feature section – set title, description, image (fancy javascript hover effect) and a link
• Page feature section – set title and description
• Home page posts – select a category and number of posts
• News section – set title, add strapline and select a category and number of posts
• About section – title and description

Uses the latest WordPress features

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

Create your own theme

• 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.
• Join now feature – create a custom join now block with message and set the link
• Parent and child theme

As with all our BuddyPress themes we think about how BuddyPress effects the design.  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.

This is a how to video so lets get straight on with it.

Want to use this feature in a theme? We’ve already updated Product and Daily to use this feature and we have plans for further updates coming soon. Check out the themes right here.

Have you got something you want to see a tutorial and video on? Let us know in the comment form.

Over at wpmu.org there is a great article on the Important Things You Should Know Before Upgrading to WordPress 3.0.

If you are looking to upgrade you will do well to follow wpmu.org’s great guide here.

You can get WordPress 3.0 right here.

Don’t forget to get the latest version of your theme too from BuddyDress – we’ve so far updated Magazine, Business, Scholar, Daily and Product with more updates coming very very soon.

Also don’t forget the great release video from WordPress.

We hope you enjoyed this video and as usual you can check out all our themes right here.

Justin Tadlock gave us a great ‘Refresher on custom taxonomies’. This builds on a past article where custom taxonomies was looked at and now he goes back and looks at it in light of WordPress 3.0. While you are there it wasn’t released this week but I can highly recommend the great article ‘Goodbye, headaches. Hello, menus! – simply one of the best guides so far in my opinion for the new menu system in WordPress 3.0.

Over at Think Vitamin there was an article which was more a collection of quotes entitled ‘WordPress 3.0 for Web Designers’. It’s a good summary and snapshot of what is being said and what WordPress 3.0 has in store.

Over at wpmu.org Sarah had a great tip this week letting us know that the codex had also been updated in relation to coding standards for 3.0.

Our final link for today comes from w3avenue ‘WordPress 3.0 Features Every Theme Developer Should Know’.

It’s rumored that WordPress 3.0 should be released fully on the 14th however I would estimate some point next week maybe – it being code frozen and entering release client 3 is a great sign of nearing full release though.

WordPress 3.0 incoming: Release Client 1 is out

Release client is here and you can get your hands on it and read the release client post here. Over at wpmu.org there is also a great upgrade post for those wanting to take the step from WPMU 2.9.2.

BuddyPress 1.2.4.1 what it means for you

You can get BuddyPress 1.2.4 here and be sure to read the release post here. Don’t forget also to get 1.2.4.1 as that has the important fix for WPMU installs.

WordPress turned 7 – happy birthday WordPress

Yesterday WordPress turned 7. There is a summary post with some simply jaw dropping figures over at WordPress.org.

There we go, it’s been quite the week with all these releases. Here’s to another Friday Find and as always if there is anything you’d like us to feature in our Find’s 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.