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.

BuddyBoss

<p>Want your learners to interact with each other? <strong>BuddyPress for LearnDash</strong> turns your course driven website into a social education platform, creating a seamless bridge between BuddyPress and <a href="http://www.learndash.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">LearnDash</a>.</p>
<h4>BuddyPress Groups</h4>
<p>Easily tie any LearnDash Course to a BuddyPress Group.</p>
<ul>
<li>Course participants automatically get added as members to the group</li>
<li>Group becomes private to course participants and invited members</li>
<li>Course Lessons become visible at the group</li>
<li>Course activity gets streamed into the group feed (optional)</li>
<li>Forum gets added to the group (if bbPress is enabled)</li>
<li>Course featured image becomes group avatar (if no group avatar has been set)</li>
</ul>
<h4>BuddyPress Activity</h4>
<p>Activity is one of the core features of BuddyPress, allowing users to interact with each other in real-time. When a course is tied to a group, course actions are optionally added to the group’s activity stream. Group admins can determine which actions to allow in their group, including:</p>
<ul>
<li>User starts a course</li>
<li>User completes a course</li>
<li>User creates a lesson</li>
<li>User completes a lesson</li>
<li>User passes a quiz</li>
<li>User comments on single lesson page</li>
</ul>
<h4>BuddyPress Members</h4>
<ul>
<li>Your members can view their Active and Completed courses in their profiles.</li>
<li>Leaders and Students get added as filterable tabs in your Members directory.</li>
<li>All LearnDash user links redirect to member profiles (instead of author pages).</li>
</ul>
<h4>bbPress Forums</h4>
<p>If bbPress is enabled, a forum will be tied to every “course group” automatically, using the same name as the course for the forum title. Group members can then discuss the course in one central location.</p>
<h4>Extend LearnDash with ‘Social Learner’</h4>
<p>BuddyPress for LearnDash is built by the experienced developers at BuddyBoss who also offer a premium social learning solution called <a href="https://www.buddyboss.com/product/social-learner-learndash" title="Social Learner for LearnDash" rel="nofollow ugc">Social Learner</a>.</p>


BuddyPress for LearnDash

If you disable groups component of BuddyPress then this plugin will fatal error and take out the entire site. This error was reported over six months ago but has not been addressed. 

Typical of this developer, they incapable of addressing a simple issue that was reported over 6 months ago. 

Avoid this developer at all costs. 

Fatal error still not fixed after 6 months.

BuddyPress for LearnDash integrates the LearnDash LMS plugin with BuddyPress, so you can add groups, activity, members, and forums to your courses.

BP Group Frontpage vs BuddyPress for LearnDash