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Like in the way response is presented or grouped in hierarchy for the BP Activity Streams, WP Comment threads, Ning forums and/or the way gmail does? Because that’s not the traditional way that it is done for […]

“if GoDaddy can handle it” is the operative phrase. At a certain point, you’d have to upgrade from shared hosting to VPS/Cloud etc.

== would I be better off sticking with the default theme and customizing it […]

== I cannot post in groups or comment on activity. ==

Do you mean you cannot post in forums of plugin group or in plugin reviews?

As for status updates in groups and profiles, these have been turned off […]

Yes you can use BP. As for your hosting, noted that some newbies have encountered problems setting up BP there but since you have WP experience, you would know what to do. You aren’t planning to go multisite […]

The part about the Installation Wizard is in the plugin’s readme.txt as seen in https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress/installation/ as well in BP Codex […]

Have never tried free webhosting. Deactivate BuddyPress. Is WP working with pretty permalinks in that hosting? If not, then you have to resolve that first before installing BuddyPress.

Also, you should not […]

In your situation where you mentioned you didn’t change the BP template files at all, you can’t hook into div#content as your theme already has it – the one which renders grey background between your content and […]

If your BP theme or bp-default child theme doesn’t have one yet, copy over https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/1.5.3.1/bp-themes/bp-default/groups/single/activity.php to your theme folder following […]

If it’s not in your theme or child theme folder, copy over https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/1.5.3.1/bp-themes/bp-default/activity/activity-loop.php following the directory structure i.e. […]

WP/BP versions? Is WP installed in domain root or in subdirectory named wordpress?

Are you using custom BP theme or is this also happening when you switch to bp-default theme?

What theme are you using? Has it been updated for BP 1.5+ ? If you change to bp-default theme, is issue corrected?

== The instructions on the page you gave are misleading because the screenshots for configuration (Step 9) show a menu link to the forums, when in reality there is no such menu link. ==

@neosin It was not meant […]

== If you choose Sitewide Forum as your forum option, you do not get a menu link to your forum. ==
You create one in custom menu. What theme are you using?.

== If I select to install Sitewide Forums for […]

When you first installed BP, did you have any issue posting to activity stream? What changed between the time posting to stream worked and the time it stopped working or redirecting to 404? Deactivate the other […]

Looks like extra divs were added to some templates and/or some missing divs in others.

To see where you need to make adjustments, open up your theme’s header.php file, copy source, go to pastebin.com, paste […]

What’s in your .htaccess file?

Customizations in one theme will not work in another theme, whether it be a WordPress theme or a BuddyPress one. It’s not chaos, it’s just a part of reality that anyone who has installed a basic WP site without […]

You’re welcome. It’s the first time I’ve “seen” you around here and your post barely had any other information, so the link posted was to make sure that you see where the “installation wizard” link should […]

Please change to bp-default theme to see if issue is resolved. It might just be that your custom theme needs to be be updated and you’d have to get assistance there from the theme developer.

What’s in your .htaccess file? Please post here.