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

lucia.intelisano

If post doesn’t have a set featured image, 
WP Autoset Featured Image Plus check if text contains an image. If yes, set this as featured image, 
if not, you can set any external url image. Otherwise, leave field empty. 
Easy and fast!
Features include:

WP Autoset Featured Image Plus

Check for an image inside text editor or use external images from anywhere as the featured image of your pages and posts.

BP External Activity vs WP Autoset Featured Image Plus