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Do you have a link to the website?
What versions of BuddyPress and WordPress are installed?
What theme are you using? Have you tried the default theme?

This is done through groups; that is, each group has its own forum.

Did you set up the forums in the wp-admin?
Did you enable the forum in each group?

Once enabled then the link for a forum for that particular group becomes available (a page is available) …

Are you using the bbpress included in BuddyPress?

(1) Set up in the wp-admin panel
In the wp-admin panel > BuddyPress > Forums Setup

(2) Each group now has access to enabling a forum. Go to Group Settings for each group Group > Admin > Edit Settings. There is a checkbox for enabling the forum.

Decided to add this to the front page of the code:

https://codex.buddypress.org/buddypress-site-administration/navigation-links-return-404-errors/

Edit as you please 😉

bookmarked for codex.

We should add more to the codex about profiles…. I’m tied up for a few days. If not tackled by Thursday then I’ll add a page with some text and links to questions (with answers).

@notpoppy Do you have a timeline in mind for migrating to BuddyPress? The bbPress plugin will become available Q1 and should work well with BuddyPress. You might wait until Q1/Q2. Another consideration is installing BuddyPress with your current setup and slowly migrating everything to work together as new versions are released (WP 3.1, BP 1.3,…[Read more]

Does this write up in the codex help?

https://codex.buddypress.org/buddypress-site-administration/buddypress-forum/

Just to save a little time, I’m not sure which version of vB you are using but …

Guide to convert vBulletin 4 to bbPress (plus integrating bbPress with WordPress

Have you read this post?

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/installing-buddypress/forum/topic/404-error-on-bp-links-2/#post-59456

Hope this helps.

If possible, increase the memory limit in either php.ini, .htaccess, or in the wp-config.php file. In php.ini memory_limit = 128M ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (128MB) Follow the proper procedures for restarting apache, etc. .htaccess method This is in my .htaccess because of file upload limitations in the php.ini as well […]

Welp – glad to have learned something new today. I can see where it is powerful for making many changes at one time. I went with the poedit software and only goofed up by not naming the po file properly the first time through. Otherwise the directions are spot on .. just a PITA. Probably […]

OK. Done. But what a horrible procedure :p

So – the bp-custom.php changes the slug and then must go through a language file to change the activity portion …

Doesn’t that seem rather odd? You’d think it should be done in one place … 😉

Sorry to read you are having problems but we’ll need more details from you.

Please consider the following two links:

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/when-asking-for-support/

https://buddypress.org/search/?f=avatar+upload

Additionally, do you have a link to your site so that we may look?

bp-custom.php is a file you may create and place in the wp-content/plugins/ directory.

https://codex.buddypress.org/buddypress-site-administration/bp-custom-php/

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