TimCarey

<p>Creates a bp Group Frontpage from a form BuddyPress Group Admins can fill out. Like a book cover. For instance group banner image, large description, and links. Compatible with Suffusion child theme with Suffusion buddy pack and BP compatible themes.</p>
<h3>Info Before Activation</h3>
<ul>
<li>This plugin is designed for use with network sites or MU site in conjunction with buddypress</li>
<li>Buddy Press 1.2.7 or greater should be activated prior to activation of this plug in. </li>
<li>bp Album+ should be activated prior to activation of this plug in. </li>
<li>works on most buddy press compatible themes. </li>
<li>Now fully functional with the buddy press default theme. </li>
<li>Background colors and other frontpage settings relating to the looks can be simply adjusted by changing the included CSS document.</li>
</ul>
<h3>To Come Eventually</h3>
<ol>
<li>The ability for group Admins to be able to add up to 4 more ad hoc areas by choosing number of ad hoc areas from a drop down..</li>
<li>A menu under the buddy press menu in the website admin for this plug in.  There would be the ability for the site admin to set the text 2 welcome screens.  One welcome screen is for the group admin who just started the group and the other welcome screen is notifying users that the group is still being created.  </li>
<li>The ability to rearrange frontpage items.</li>
<li>The addition of an advanced admin menu to be able to create and edit CSS style sheets in group frontpage group admin settings.</li>
<li>Frontpage setting to be in its own and main menu of being with another and possibly having its own creation step when a group is created.</li>
</ol>
<h3>Adding Custom Style to A Group</h3>
<ol>
<li>Note: Group Frontpage styles only affect the group frontpage styles and not every page of the group.</li>
<li>Make a copy of the group frontpage default CSS document through FTP to your computer.  ( Default CSS file name is: bp-group-frontpage-css.css ).  The directory where this is stored is /wp-content/plugins/bp-group-frontpage/css.</li>
<li>Rename this copy and based on the name of the group it is intended for.  If your group name is My Group, then your file will be bp-group-f-my-group-css.css.  Notice that there is the addition of minus signs ( – ) between each word of your group name and the entire file name is lower case.  And the word frontpage is truncated two just the letter f. </li>
<li>Edit the file for your group and save.  </li>
<li>FTP your new file into the same directory as the default file.</li>
</ol>


BP Group Frontpage

Creates a Group Frontpage from a form BuddyPress Group Admins fill out. Like a book cover.

Boone Gorges

CUNY Academic Commons

David Cavins

<p>BuddyPress Docs adds collaborative work spaces to your BuddyPress community. Part wiki, part document editing, part shared dropbox, think of these Docs as a BuddyPress version of the Docs service offered by the Big G <em>ifyouknowwhatimean</em></p>
<p>Features include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Docs that can be linked to groups or users, with a variety of privacy levels</li>
<li>Support for fully-private document uploads</li>
<li>Doc taxonomy, using tags</li>
<li>Fully sortable and filterable doc lists</li>
<li>TinyMCE front-end doc editing</li>
<li>One-editor-at-a-time prevention against overwrites, plus idle detection/autosave</li>
<li>Full access to revision history</li>
<li>Dashboard access and management of Docs for the site admin</li>
</ul>
<p>This plugin is in active development. For feature requests and bug reports, visit http://github.com/boonebgorges/buddypress-docs. If you have translated the plugin and would like to provide your translation for distribution with BuddyPress Docs, please contact the plugin author.</p>


BuddyPress Docs

I used it on a project for a client several years ago and it worked like a charm. Also, it was well-maintained.

BP Group Frontpage vs BuddyPress Docs