Woosidebars is a plugin that allows you to replace sidebars with those of your own creation on specific pages throughout your WordPress site, technically you could have a different sidebar per page.
Installation is a case of installing and activating the plugin, once you have done that you get a new page – Dashboard>>Appearance>>Widget Areas. It is here where you will setup, view and configure your new widget areas, which will appear within the Dashboard>>Appearance>>Widgets page.
ON testing I found I had issues using this for a BuddyPress installations; whilst I was able to configure new sidebars for my site homepage for example, I was unable to configure sidebars for my BuddyPress static pages such as Activity, Groups etc, even though these pages were listed by the plugin, selecting them and inserting new widgets did not display them on those pages.
Similarly although there are options to select forum pages for new widget areas when I tried this in my simple test setup again this seemed to fail with no new widget area being displayed on any BuddyPress group forum page.
I found using the plugin itself very simple compared to other sidebar plugins that I have tried, if only the basic BuddyPress pages could be supported though, given this lack of support for BuddyPress then I will have to give this plugin 6 out of 10.
I've been setting up and managing BuddyPress social networks for a few years. I moved from Ning and other platforms and have come to BuddyPress looking to make sites with similar features to them.
BuddyPress Follow allows members of a BuddyPress social network to follow each other, it places follow buttons on each members profile and in the members page and adds extra tab's in each members profile page, one showing who is following you and the other showing who you are following.
BuddyPress First Letter Avatar is a simple plugin that gives a colour coded avatar based on a letter from the username of the user, for users that have not set an avatar image. It's an alternative to assigning a Gravatar or similar. It also performs the same task for Groups.
Mass Messaging in BuddyPress, is pretty much the opposite of the alternative Mass Messaging plugin – Mass Messaging for BuddyPress by Alkaweb. What I mean by this is this; whatever Alkawebs plugin does in the back-end, Mass Messaging in BuddyPress does from the front-end. Both of these plugins allow site admin to send mass messages to all, or groups of users in BuddyPress. What Mass Messaging in BuddyPress does extra, is to provide the ability to allow that privilege to other user types, and also it has the ability to track if the message has been read.
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