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@ubiq00 Ask your hosting company if they can host BuddyPress installations and point them to the codex link above. You might need to upgrade as some shared hosting plans can’t handle BP.

Since you’re new to WordPress and BuddyPress, might I suggest before upgrading hosting plans, that you test WordPress/BuddyPress via local install through XAMPP…[Read more]

@ubiq00 Where are you hosted? There are a various reasons for blank pages like https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/troubleshooting/blank-pages/

@ubiq00 Thank you for your patience. We are all volunteers here living in different time zones.

After activating BuddyPress, you need to go to admin menu Settings > BuddyPress where there are different panels – Components, Pages, and Settings – to help you configure your community settings. Did you do that already?…[Read more]

@ubiq00 WP/BP versions? What theme are you using?