[@rb2108 Participant 11 years, 8 months ago]

Hi Fee … looks like I’m making some progress and I’ve answered some of my questions and I’m starting to understand how bbPress and BP work individually and together. Let me keep going and hopefully I should be fine. Thanks for your help.

Ron

[@rb2108 Participant 11 years, 8 months ago]

Thanks Fee … I will certainly look into writing something for newbies like myself (although maybe by the time I get to understand BP then I’ll have forgotten how I feel right now !)

If I’m being too much of a pain with my stupid questions, please ignore me! But otherwise, I’m very grateful for you spending your valuable time helping me out.

So .. Following your latest suggestions, I’m making some progress.

Things I don’t understand are:

1) On the main home page, I now see four menu items .. My own menu, Members, Activities and Groups. The first should be a link to my ‘Group Forum’ and I’ve set the URL to http://localhost:8888/forums/forum/Group Forum (I’m using MAMP on the iMac) .. but I get URL Not Found.

2) (and this may be connected to 1) … When I edit my forum page from wp-admin, I get a message at the top saying that I need to update my permalinks to something other than the default for BP to work. What should I set this to ?

3) For the other three menu items (Members, Activities, Groups), if I click on all of these I just get put into the WP page editor. What do I do next please ?

I’m sure that sometime in the near future I will suddenly see the light and understand all of this. At the moment it seems like a bit of a steep learning curve.

Thanks
Ron

[@rb2108 Participant 11 years, 8 months ago]

Thanks Fee … that worked up to a point. I’m using WP 3.51 immediately after a fresh install and so the default theme Twenty Twelve is being used. So, after your instructions (with a small uncertainly at the end) all I see on the nav bar is Home, Activities, Members, Sample Page. Nothing about groups or forums.

Your instructions mentioned ‘Activate group forums for BuddyPress’ which I couldn’t see on the page. What I got was

BuddyPress Forum settings for BuddyPress
Enable Group Forums Allow BuddyPress Groups to have their own forums
Group Forums Parent is the parent for all group forums
Using the Forum Root is not recommended. Changing this does not move existing forums.

The first box was ticked by default (which I left alone) and as instructed, I set the Group Furums Root to ‘Group Forum’.

So, why are there no Forums on the home page ?

Apologies if I’m being stupid here. I think you BP folks have done a great job .. however, I find the available docs not very user-friendly i.e. if I click on ‘documentation’ from the BP home page, I get a list of extremely esoteric items where I would expect to see a few idiot’s guides on installation, configuration etc etc. I reckon that I’m quite knowledgeable about WordPress having created and supported 3 sites, but I’ve found bbPress and BuddyPress very confusing.

Thanks
Ron