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

Jorge A. Gonzalez

Easy External Links is a SEO friendly, external link handler for WordPress.
The current aim of Easy External Links is to standardize the format of external links and create consistent on-page SEO.
<a href="http://watchworthy.io/underwater-base-jumping/" rel="nofollow ugc">Demo</a> | <a href="https://s.w.org/plugins/wp-links/screenshot-1.png" rel="nofollow ugc">Options</a>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Open external links in a new tab or current tab</li>
<li>Domain Filtering</li>
<li>Show icon next to external link (100 icons to chose from) </li>
<li>External image hosting support</li>
<li>Add rel=”external nofollow” to external links</li>
<li>Add title attribute to external links (uses to the text of the link)</li>
<li>Add target=”_blank” to comment links (rel=”external nofollow” coming soon) </li>
<li>Add target=”_blank” to external links in excerpts</li>
</ul>

Easy External Links

Install, activate, configure, forget. Works really well!

As simple and as good as it gets

Take control of external links in WordPress posts, pages & comments. Insert rel=external nofollow and target=_blank to all your external links.

BP External Activity vs Easy External Links