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Sorry to bump up this thread… the problem of a registered, logged-in user not being able to create a new topic refuses to go away. We had installed group-forums first, but later uninstalled it, and went for site-wide forums. Now when a user clicks on “New Topic”, they get the message – “You are not a member of any groups so you don’t have any group forums you can post in. “, meaning perhaps that the Groups still is required to be created. How to tell BP to remove the Groups feature and get it to install site-wide forums?

Request BP gurus / experts to share their advice and experience.

Thanks in advance.

Hi Chouf1,

We followed the advice given, and experimented with the settings. Finally, we uninstalled bbPress to redo the forum installation.

Now, the BP settings are as follows:

1. In Components tab, Groups option is disabled.

2. In Forums tab, a button “Uninstall Group Forums” is seen, adjacent to “Install site wide forums”. Clicking on this button leads to two new buttons – “Install Group Forums” and “Use Existing Installation”. However, when we do some other task and return to this tab, the button “Use Existing Installation” is no longer visible. Only the “Uninstall Group Forums” tab remains, adjacent to “Install site wide forums”. Which means, we are effectively unable to get rid of “Group Forums” and use only the site-wide forums.

Request members to suggest a way out. How to uninstall Group Forums and use site-wide forums only?

Thanks in advance.

Hello Paul,

Thank you for the input of disabling the “Discussion Forums” option in the Components tab. Doing so however makes the “Forums” tab invisible altogether, and only 3 tabs remain: Components, Pages and Settings.

Are we missing something?

Thanks in advance.