Jatinder Pal Singh

<p>If you want FACEBOOK like functionality for your buddypress installation where Homepage for Vistiors is different than Logged in users, you should try this plugin. This plugin performs following tasks:</p>
<p>** when user log into your website, user is redirected to his/her profile.<br />
** when user try to move to homepage, user is redirected to his/her profile.<br />
** when user logs out of your website, user is redirected to homepage of the website.</p>
<p>because once users are logged in, there is no need to appeal them to register,so they shouldn’t be sent their again.<br />
Now you can select the user role, who can view the homepage. Roles which can be selected;<br />
None:- Nobody is allowed to view homepage<br />
Administrators:- Only users with the role ‘administrator’ can view the homepage<br />
Editors:- Only users with the role ‘editor’ can view the homepage<br />
Authors:- Only users with the role ‘author’ can view the homepage<br />
Contributors:- Only users with the role ‘contributor’ can view the homepage<br />
Subscribers:- Only users with the role ‘subscriber’ can view the homepage</p>
<p>This plugin is successfully tested with WordPress 4.1 and buddypress 2.1.1</p>
<h3>Support Questions</h3>
<p>if you want to ask anything regarding this plugin, you can always put your questions on my website http://www.jpsays.com</p>


BP Profile as Homepage

If you want FACEBOOK like functionality for your buddypress installation where Homepage for Vistiors is different than Logged in users, you should try …

Micah Wood

<p>The <strong>Custom Front Page</strong> plugin allows to you set any post or page, including custom post types, as the homepage.</p>
<h4>Why?</h4>
<p>Let’s say you have created a ‘landing page’ post type.  This post type provides you with all the input fields and default<br />
design needed to make awesome landing pages easy.  These landing pages are so awesome, in fact, that you decide to use one as your homepage.<br />
But wait, WordPress won’t let you do that… until now!  Just install “Custom Front Page” and you can select any page, post or custom post type<br />
to be the homepage on your site.</p>
<h4>How?</h4>
<p>Using this plugin is simple:</p>
<ol>
<li>Install the plugin</li>
<li>Activate the plugin</li>
<li>Go to ‘Reading’ under ‘Settings’ in the WordPress admin menu and select the desired front page.</li>
<li>Save your changes</li>
</ol>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Works with custom post types</li>
<li>No settings page, just adds additional post types to the front page dropdown</li>
<li>Clean, well written code that won’t bog down your site</li>
</ul>


Custom Front Page

Easily set any page or post, including custom post types, as the homepage for your site.

BP Profile as Homepage vs Custom Front Page