ditto. I made some progress with site wide forums by deselecting the forum check box in the BP settings. Though I haven’;t traced the code. I did however have an out of memory problem during bbPres installation, which may have f’ed up the install. Shame buddypress doesn’t tidy up completely on removal.
I had exactly the same problem. The Javascript to create the submit button when you click into the what’s new field was missing from the generated HTML. I needed to add code to my functions.php file to enqueue _inc/global.js. Additionally, since I was developing the theme as a subtheme of a non-buddypress theme I needed to change get_template_directory_uri() to get_stylesheet_directory_uri() and copy the global.js file.
This problem occurred for me on a vanilla install without bp-template-pack. I believe it was because I failed to click on the Finish & Activate button. I’d read the message “The BuddyPress setup is complete, and your site is ready to go!” so I just chose something other than the Finish & Activate button.
If anyone else gets the problem, just go back to the wp-admin page and try again – this time selecting Finish & Activate.
