Boone Gorges

Mariusooms

reblevins

Requires BuddyPress 1.7+ and PHP 5.3+.
The BuddyPress Groupblog plugin extends the group functionality by enabling each group to have a single blog associated with it. Group members are automatically added to the blog and will have blog roles as set by the groupblog admin settings.
Features:
<ul>
<li>P2 integration and frontend posting.</li>
<li>Admin can set Template specific groupblogs.</li>
<li>Allow group admins choose the desired template page themselves.</li>
<li>Full blog theme integration. The included bp-groupblog theme mimics the group pages.</li>
<li>Automated blog registration at group creation stage.</li>
<li>Bypass default blog validation to allow dashes, underscores, numeral only and minimum character count.</li>
<li>Blog privacy settings are initially inherited from group privacy settings.</li>
<li>Group members are automatically added to the blog.</li>
<li>Blog roles match group roles as set by the group admin.</li>
<li>Solid error checking that the blog follows validation.</li>
<li>Group admin tab to access the group-blog settings.</li>
<li>Blog themes will have the ability to pull in group info and create a theme that could resemble the group exactly.</li>
<li>Leaving the group will downgrade the member role to ‘subscriber’.</li>
<li>Allow the group admin to select one of his/her existing blogs.</li>
<li>A new ajax backend.</li>
</ul>

BuddyPress Groupblog

BuddyPress Groupblog extends the group functionality by enabling the group to have a single blog associated with it.

fusionstream

blogsiread is a highly customisable widget inspired by Blogger’s “Blogs I Read” function that takes excerpts from other blogs (via Links) and displays them in a small widget on your blog.
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Change widget title</li>
<li>Automatically selects blogs from “Links” based on “Categories”</li>
<li>Optional – Show Site Title (either from link name or meta tags)</li>
<li>Optional – Show Post Title</li>
<li>Optional – Show Post Excerpt (250 characters max, plain text)</li>
<li>Optional – Order listing by “as ordered in Links page”, Post Published Date, Link Name, Site Title, Post Title. All can be additionally sorted in descending or ascending order.</li>
<li>Clicking on entries can open in a new window or in the same window</li>
<li>You can customise your widget by adding a css class.</li>
</ul>
<h4>TODO</h4>
<ul>
<li>More customisable layout</li>
<li>Limit total entries and more importantly, before loading their xml-s</li>
<li>Complete or co-operative ajax to reduce server load and more importantly, page loading times</li>
<li>Make the category selector look pretty</li>
<li>Allow customisable Post Excerpt character limit</li>
<li>Do that cool thing where the widget title in the admin page is “blogsiread: “</li>
</ul>
For those who are using a custom CSS Class, structure of widget content is as follows (some lines may not be displayed at all depending on widget options – see #): 
 
 # <a rel=”sitetitle”….</a> OR if site url is blank: 
 # <a rel=”posttitle”….</a> OR if post url is blank: 
 # …CONTENT… 
 …TIME…

blogsiread

Displays user-definable content from other blogs (via wordpress Links [RSS]) as a widget in your blog in a highly customisable format.

BuddyPress Groupblog vs blogsiread