BuddyPress

@imath It would be great if a widget was available so there is no theme editing

thanks

John

I dont think so. Because the goal of the plugin is to use a shortcode in a text widget so that you can build your own widget.

for example :
add a text widget in your sidebar, then add one of the shortcodes for instance [bc_groups] in the content textarea

then in the functions.php script of your active theme, just add :
add_filter( 'widget_text', 'shortcode_unautop');
add_filter( 'widget_text', 'do_shortcode');