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If your permalinks haven’t been changed since installing BuddyPress you should see a reminder in the dashboard near the top of the dashboards page that displays the notice that the permalinks need to be changed to something other than default for BuddyPress to work properly.

@focallocal As far as I understood, you are trying to create a different layout for the Group Home Page.

If that’s the case, I’d recommend you check the Theme Development Documentation (https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/), you would create a custom template for the Group Home Page and let it the way you feel best.

Now about embedding a forum…[Read more]

@focallocal change to TWenty Twelve theme to check if it’s a theme conflict. BP has been tested with the WP default themes and works out of the box with all of them.