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@bloodveil there’s no plugin for above specs at this time. Btw, by dashboard, do you mean example.com/wp-admin right?

@bloodveil Thanks for clarifying what you meant. Site Admins posting in BP forums are looking for front-end solutions e.g. http://buddydev.com/plugins/buddyblog/ to prevent users from accessing/going to the wp-admin area at all. So your post was unexpected 🙂

Populating the dashboard with posts of friends is not an easy task and would require you to create the solution yourself or hiring a developer to do so, if you still want to go that route.

@bloodveil there are gallery/media plugins for Buddypress such as
Free: https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-media/
Premium: http://buddydev.com/plugins/bp-gallery/