Thanks @naljaping for the info. Though I couldn’t get the contact form to work for me, and don’t really want to sign up to the website to try and hunt him down, as it’s a community for French speaking Algerians, not people with Buddypress concerns.
Hope that he appears again soon and all is well – I could really do with support on this plugin
To summarise, you should have a file in the root directory of your folder that is called .htaccess (there is a fullstop at the beginning of the file name). The contents of the .htaccess file should contain the following:
# BEGIN WordPress