Dev Blog: OMG WordPress BBQ!

This weekend, thousands of WordPress users and developers are among the people attending the South by Southwest (SxSW) Interactive conference in Austin, TX. To celebrate this, we’re throwing a WordPress BBQ at SxSW tomorrow so that there’s a place for us all to get together.

If you’re a WordPress fan attending SxSW (or you just happen to be in Austin), please join us for lunch after 12pm* tomorrow, Sunday March 14. We’re getting the BBQ from Rudy’s and the red velvet cake from Central Market. Yum! Come, eat, talk about the cool things you’re doing with WordPress, let us know what we can do better, gossip about Mark Jaquith’s new hairstyle, whatever. Think of it like a WordCamp without presentations. I’ll be there, lead developers Mark Jaquith and Ryan Boren will be there, core contributors will be there, plugin and theme developers will be there, and basically all the most intelligent and attractive people from SxSW will be there. You should be, too!

Location: Conjunctured coworking space, 1309 East 7th St., Austin, TX 78702. From the convention center, walk up to 7th Street, hang a right, and walk until you get to #1309. If you’re tired of walking, taking a cab is a decent option. Note that this is on the other side of I-35 from the convention center.

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* We’ll keep serving until we run out of food, so probably until around 2 or 3? We’ll have a hundred pounds of bbq meat, a bunch of sides, and dozens of gallons of iced tea, so come hungry.

Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 03/13

Sky Light

A combination blue dark and black color, with sky image as a background

Magazine theme

The theme has widgetized header, front page, sidebars, and single posts. For better SEO results, the theme uses custom fields to pull images to the front page.

Simple Things

Fixed width, 2 column theme with a minimalistic style and a touch of typography

Chirp

Chirp is a Twitter inspired Wordpress Photoblog/Videoblog Theme. You provide your Twitter information and the theme will be styled the same as your Twitter account.

5 Photo Blog WordPress Themes

5 photography WordPress themes. Each one is widget-ready, gravatar-enabled, and ready for your photo uploads.

BuddyPress: BuddyPress 1.2.2.1

The latest version of BuddyPress includes a number of important bug fixes and is a highly recommended upgrade.

To view a list of all the fixes included since the initial release of BuddyPress 1.2, please head on over to the BuddyPress release history page.

Plugin News

We’re starting to see the number of BuddyPress plugins growing rapidly, there are now more than 125 available for you to try out. Some of most popular BuddyPress plugins currently available are:

Be sure to check all of the plugins out on the BuddyPress plugins page. If you’d like to develop a BuddyPress plugin then a great place to start is with the BuddyPress Skeleton Component. This plugin will provide you with all the basic starting points you need to build brand new BuddyPress features.

The Awesome Internet As Viewed Using Google Reader Play – 12/3/2010

This is my personal list of the best stuff I’ve discovered while checking out Google Reader Play. Reader Play is a cool new feature of Google Reader. I’ll give Google the honor to explain what it is:

Google Reader Play is a fast, fun way to browse interesting stuff on the web. No more looking for blogs, feeds, or sites — we’ll bring the best of the best directly to you via Reader Play.

The Best Of Web 2.0

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