The link to create a group (if group creation is enabled) is available on the groups directory page in bp-default theme. If you want to add the link to your custom theme, the relevant code is in this line https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/1.6.1/bp-themes/bp-default/groups/index.php#L21
@kissandim you’re welcome. glad you resolved it on your own 
@ @mercime, I’ve managed to make it work here;
http://nickyernstsen.dk/spilportal/forum
But when you choose a forum then the sidebar shows up again. Any ideas?
@shawn38, The site was using a blog from wordpress and the theme was well liked and buddypress was just a test at first. It seemed to work out pretty well for what the site needs. I will keep this in mind for any other future buddypress projects. The !important seemed to work. Thanks.
@karmatosed, Thanks for your input and will be using that as well.
@mercime, Thanks but, the way I aligned it isn’t proper. I added styles to each element because when I use the .bpcontent div it was only fixing the Members Directory page. The rest of the pages ended up still being out of alignment. Your post makes sense and I should have noticed that but, I didn’t. Thanks for that one. The sidebar-buddypress,php is no longer in use or shouldn’t be. I am using or planning on using my themes sidebar.php. This made it much easier when making the theme compatible. I am going to go back and fix the css and see if my alignment issue works out a little easier.
Thanks for everyones input, I am sure I’ll be back.
De activate all plugins and then delete the 1.2 BuddyPress folder. Then upload 1.5 and activate and go through upgrade process. If you haven’t edited core BP files you should be ok. The plugins may need a one x one activate test to make sure they work.
HI. Thanks for your help. I did ALL the things you suggested in your message and that particular string was still in english… I finally found it, you were right, it was in the theme/members/single/delete-account.php location. There seems to be a problem there because this file is not affected by the translated file. I finally did the language changes manually and it worked…
Thanks again for al the help.
@shawn38 that is exactly what I was looking for for the last month… Would you like to drop me an email to juanmaguerrero.com and have a nice chat about the possibilities of making this an other great plugins I have in mind? Thanks for all!
Ola !
You have 2 translation when running BP. One for WP and one for BP
And many plugins using their own mo file. In this case, the translation is in a “lang” or “languages” folder delivered with the plugin.
The wp translation is called es_ES.mo and is in wp-content/languages/es_ES.mo
The BP mo had to be in this same directory wp-content/languages/buddpress-es_ES.mo
You have also to declare your site language in wp-config.php (define(‘WP_LANG’,’es_ES’) and you have to set this, if not already done, in WP’s settings.
If all this is correctly made, all WP/BP strings should be in spanish. If despite correct settings, you have strings in english, it’s probably because you’re using a theme or a plugin with uninternationalized strings.
The template pack has nothing to do with your problem. bp-template-pack is a kind of guide to help you modify/upset non BP compatible themes. The plugin doesn’t need to be in spanish.
To find exactly where your untranslatable strings are, i suggest you to open buddypress/bp-languages/buddypress.pot and look above the word in english, the file name where the word is used. So simple as that ! 
EDIT: the concerned file is bp-themes/bp-default/members/single/settings/delete-account.php
If you use a custom theme for your install, you have to use the same path:
your_theme/members/single/settings/delete-account.php
In this file, you must have this line 54:
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The messages I am having trouble with are:
“WARNING: Deleting your account will completely remove ALL content associated with it. There is no way back, please be careful with this option.”
” I understand the consequences of deleting my account.” (the message besides the checkbox)
and the “Delete my account” button message.
All the rest of the Buddypress installation is in Spanish already, I just can´t get rid of these three items in english..
Thanks.
Erik.
Group forums or sitewide forum?
I would recommend strongly against this. There are security vulnerabilities present in BP versions earlier than 1.5.7. I’d also recommend getting to BP 1.6.x because it’s just a great release, but if you want to stay on the 1.5 branch for now, please use the latest 1.5.
Are you using a plugin or custom code?
OK. I located the “delete-account.php” file in my template pack (//wp-content/plugins/bp-template-pack/templates/members/single/settings/delete-account.php). The phrases causing the issue are there. I have changed them into spanish, but when attempting to delete my account, the message IS STILL IN ENGLISH!!! For the life of me that I just don´t know what else to look for.. Any help would be most appreciated.
Thanks!!
@mercime forget it, I figured out a way around it!Thanks for all your help!!
@mercime that is almost what I need, but now it is before the “home” link. i’d like to move it to the second location directly to the right of home. Thank you in advance for your help
thank you , i will try buddypress + membership.(free version) …
I see what you mean. But I checked the template pack’s pot. File and tge english phrases causing the issue are not there… Where should I look for them?
Thanks
Have you translated the theme and your template pack – to me it seems that something would not be being translated so you’re maybe only picking up one of the strings. Maybe the template pack isn’t translating?
‘Out of the box’ things are sticky in their own forums. You could start with this discussion though:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-keep-the-sticky-posts-at-the-top/
I’d recommend you don’t hack core files though and pull it out into a bp-custom.php file.
https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/bp-custom-php/
Seems to me like BuddyPress will do most of that but the ‘filtering’ to different types of sign up probably you’d want to look at some form of membership plugin in conjunction.
Hi. I am using a custom theme…. I am using a template pack for my (Elegantthemes) WordPress theme.
