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Here’s some more information on how to create child themes for BuddyPress, as @mercime suggests: https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

@joshualedetnet (and others having the issue) – Could you help us to debug by putting the following into your bp-custom.php or theme’s functions.php file?

`add_filter( ‘bp_do_redirect_canonical’, […]

It’s being caused by a plugin called bp-external-activity. As the docs note, you have to open the PHP file to replace the default feed with your own: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-external-activity/installation/

Have you tried doing some logging/dumping to see where things are going awry? What happens when you dump the following:

`var_dump( $post_categories );
var_dump( $new_events_slug );
var_dump( $cat […]

Can you clarify what you’re trying to do, and the ways in which what you’ve written are falling short? I take it that the “two categories” is *not* what you want?

Can you clarify which files you mean when you say “the settings folder from the core BP files”? Do you mean the following:

buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/members/single/settings/

If so, these files […]

@hnla It sounds like you might have found a bug.

@djpaul The change you’re thinking of is here: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/5552

As Hugo points out, this is almost certainly a memory issue. Check out http://www.nerdgrind.com/increase-wordpress-and-php-memory-limit/ for details on increasing your memory limit. If this is not the problem, […]

Is the user a member of the group where you are trying to create the topic?

What is the privacy level of the group in question?

What versions of WP/BP? What theme? What other plugins? Are you able to […]