BuddyPress.org

WordPress Version: 4.4.1
BuddyPress Version: 2.4.3.
Site link: still building it offline

For the website I’m working on I’ve chosen to go with WooThemes Canvas. It has turned out that some features of BuddyPress don’t work with the theme, but I do not know why. As I’m not familiar with coding, I’ll try to explain as good as possible.
Problem: in the BuddyPress group forums the forum title and topic title aren’t displayed. The links itself are there, but the text isn’t rendered. When inspecting in Chrome I can see the link is there, but the topic title between the <a> tags isn’t there.
What I assume is this line of code in loop-single-topic.php

<a class="bbp-topic-permalink" href="<?php bbp_topic_permalink(); ?>"><?php bbp_topic_title(); ?></a>
shows as:

<a class="bbp-topic-permalink" href="http://mysite.com/community/groups/admins/forum/topic/instructions/"></a>

When I switch to one of the default WordPress theme it shows just fine.

I can add that another plugin (MyCred) that is supposed to show additional information in the BuddyPress profile header doesn’t perform what it’s supposed to do. Again when switching to a default theme it works.

Is the theme just incompatible and that’s that? Or are there steps I can take to get to the bottom of the issue?