Mike Martel

This plugin is tested only with BP 1.6.2 and WordPress 3.5, and is not meant to be backwards compatible! If you’re running an older version of WordPress, use Vernon’s original plugin <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-default-group-avatar/" rel="ugc">BuddyPress Group Default Avatar</a>
Allows specifying the URL of an image to use as the BuddyPress default group avatar. This makes it easy to distinguish groups from members who are using the mystery man default user avatar.
It works in all situations (activity stream, groups, forums, directory, etc). Upload your image to somewhere within your theme and drop the full URL in the options screen.
If you had <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-default-group-avatar/" rel="ugc">BuddyPress Group Default Avatar</a> previously installed, this plugin will use the avatar set in that plugin. Otherwise it’s bundled with a default avatar for groups (see screenshots).
Not tested on multisite/network install yet (please confirm if it’s working!).

BuddyPress Default Group Avatar

Adds a default group avatar to BuddyPress without disabling Gravatars for users.

anttti

When creating new posts or pages (of regular WordPress types or custom post types), this plugin makes them private by default.
Just activate the plugin, no further configuration is necessary (or even possible).
This plugin is a fork of the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/private-post-by-default/" rel="ugc">Private Posts by Default plugin</a> since it didn’t work properly in WordPress 4.3 and wasn’t updated in more than three years.
<h4>Important URL’s</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://rarelyneeded.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Author’s Blog</a></li>
<li><a href="http://twitter.com/anttti" rel="nofollow ugc">Twitter</a></li>
</ul>

Private by Default

When creating new posts or pages (of regular WordPress types or custom post types), this plugin makes them private by default.

BuddyPress Default Group Avatar vs Private by Default