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Script installers are plagued with problems, I would avoid it if you can.

Create a page called forums
Go to the BuddyPress menu in the admin and click pages
Assign the forum component to the forum page

With a custom theme you might need to fix your css.

Is it a default install or have you changed something. I’ve done this before and not remembered I edited something in core. Can you delete bp plugin and reinstall?

Read the part about fixing alignment. The files to edit will be in the the achievements plugin folder
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme

You don’t need to link to jquery. It’s already included. If your js doesn’t work try changing $ to jQuery in your script if is using $().

Though it could be the script itself.

Not sure, I need to fix a few things in the plugin and want to redo the admin a bit.

I have a plugin I’m working on that displays info on your profile about a users site activity. BP does not record mentions but tags a notification and then removes when you view notification. You would have to […]

Plugins should not include its own jquery, WordPress already includes it. Write the plugin author and tell them to fix their plugin.

Yup, you can write your own loop if you need. On that docs page it gives you an example

CDN = Content Delivery Network. A place where you upload static files like CSS JavaScript images and anything elses a page would request. This will allow fewer http requests to your server and CDNs make copies of […]

BuddyPress will run slower than a basic WordPress because you are using more db/server info with each page refresh. Anything than can to enhance a WordPress install will help BuddyPress. Use a cache plugin, not […]

You have to copy over the folder ‘achievements’ inside that contains the achievement templat files to your custom theme and then fix he HTML to match.

You could go into database and clear out the activity / activity meta

Is mingle enqueueing CSS?

The theme is prolly not enqueueing the CSS properly. What theme are you using?

Deleting user will remove all activity, marking user as spammer will hide activity.

Cubepoints isn’t what they want. They want a sort of task managent type plugin. Check lists.

You need to create one page for each active BuddyPress component. So create a page called members and then under the BuddyPress admin menu you will find a link called pages, you assign that page to the members component.