Boone Gorges

CUNY Academic Commons

Allows admins to import data from an arbitrary RSS feed into their BuddyPress sitewide activity stream
The plugin imports RSS feeds every hour. You may find that you need to decrease your Simplepie cache time to make it work: 
 add_filter( ‘wp_feed_cache_transient_lifetime’, create_function(‘$a’, ‘return 600;’) ); 
reduces the RSS cache to ten minutes, for example. Put that in your bp-custom.php file if you are having problems with the plugin.
At the moment, the plugin uses the Author field from the RSS feed to look for a matching author in your WP database. If it doesn’t find one, it uses the unlinked text ‘A user’, as in ‘A user edited the wiki page…’.

BP External Activity

Allows admins to import data from an arbitrary RSS feed into their BuddyPress sitewide activity stream

etalented

This plugin will solve the problem of manually changing all your external links to open in a new window by doing it automatically for you…for all external links in all posts and pages!
This plugin uses standard HTML and doesn’t introduce any more JavaScript into your already JavaScript heavy WordPress site. It also uses very minimal styling (CSS) to display a new window icon, which is embedded and not externally linked.
The display of the new window icon can be changed in the settings page and you can also add the <code>rel="nofollow"</code> attribute. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow" rel="nofollow ugc">Read more about <code>rel="nofollow"</code> on Wikipedia</a>.
Updates to the plugin will be posted on the <a href="https://etalented.co.uk/wordpress-plugin-external-links-to-new-window" rel="nofollow ugc">Etalented website</a> as well as to the <a href="https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/external-links-to-new-window/" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress.org Plugin Directory</a>.
Originally created by <a href="http://thisismyurl.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Christopher Ross</a> and now authored by <a href="https://etalented.co.uk" rel="nofollow ugc">Etalented</a>.

External Links to New Window

Open all external links in your blog posts and pages automatically in a new tab or new window when clicked or tapped.

BP External Activity vs External Links to New Window