Buddypress Widget Pack

Buddypress Widget Pack is a series of 4 widgets that you can add to your Buddypress-enabled sidebar. The four widgets are: 1)Popular Members widget 2)Newest Members Widget 3)Random Members Widget, and 4)Total Friends and Friend Connections Widget

Credit needs to be given to WPMU.org and Sarah Gooding for a majority of the code, as I just widget-ized it 😉
Please see the original tutorials by Sarah, here:
http://wpmu.org/display-friend-count-and-recent-connections-in-the-buddypress-sidebar/
http://wpmu.org/how-to-create-a-gallery-of-members-avatars-in-buddypress/

Features include:
1. Popular Members widget
2. Newest Members widget
3. Random Members widget
4. Total Friends and Friend Connections Widget

Other

For more info visit Commons.esc.edu/damon-cook

The plugin is simple to install:

1. Download buddypress-widget-pack.zip
2. Unzip
3. Upload buddypress-widget-pack directory to your /wp-content/plugins directory
4. Go to the plugin management page and enable the plugin
5. Visit your Widgets page and drag where desired

Otherwise, Use the Plugin browser, upload it and activate, you are done.

How might I use this?

Besides just dragging-and-dropping into your sidebar, I highly recommend using the Tabbed Widgets plugin to consolidate all of the Buddypress Widget Pack’s widgets into a consolidated interface. For example, create an accordion or tabbed widget that has the Newest Members Widget, Popular Members Widget, and Random Members Widget all in one. Check out Kaspars Dambis Tabbed Widgets plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tabbed-widgets/

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   [screenshot-1.png] Combine the Popular, Newest, and Random Members widgets into tabbed interface with Tabbed Widgets plugin

Version 1.1 added BP User Meta to the Popular, Newest, and Random members widget
Version 1.0 released