This week brought us plenty of news in themes, Plugins, blogs posts, and tutorials for your weekend WordPress reading pleasures.

In WordPress themes this week:

• WPShower, a new free WordPress themes site, has launched.
• WebDevStudios went live with a redesigned Blog World website, build on the Genesis theme framework.
• Blogsessive has released a free minimalist WordPress theme called Typominima.

In tutorials this week:

• Andrei published a tutorial on integrating Gravity Forms and Paypal.
• WPBeginner’s new post will show you how to gauge the effect of WordPress Plugins on your website.

More after the break.

Notable blog posts this week include:

• Ozh posted a few interesting (not at all useless!) graphs on the relative size and number of files contained within an install of WordPress, over time.
• Jeff Chandler posts about a few of his website pet peeves. Agreed, Jeff! He also reviewed the Headway theme.
• Justin Tadlock discusses frameworks, parent and child themes, then teases a framework called Hybrid Core.
• Cory Miller reinforces, with a blog post, that his company’s stance as a strong WordPress theme company.
• Weblog Tools Collection put up a post covering common WordPress Multisite question (and of course answers).
• Leland at Theme Lab posted a nice review of Carrington Build (which we covered earlier this week).

The last seven days of Plugins have brought us:

• Paul Gibbs, developer of the Welcome Pack Plugin for BuddyPress, has posted a bit of a preview for Achievements version two, a Plugin for BuddyPress that allows admins to award points to members when they complete certain tasks.
• Scott Carpenter (author of the Post Revisions Display Plugin mentioned earlier this week) has also authored an oddly named Plugin called The French Archives, which displays a configurable table of archived posts. This looks interesting, a lot like things I’ve wanted to have in the past.