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@mercime Thank you for your answer, but by reading what you linked me, I noticed that I was totally wrong on the words I used : I wasn’t talking about the “widget sidebar”, but of the “admin bar” that is on top of the page. On buddypress’ website, I see the WP admin bar, and that’s what I want to have on my own site.
Then, the answer may be in what you linked, I’ll re-read it to see if I find an answer, but even if I mentioned the Admired theme, I think I’ll get the same “trouble” with any theme (I hope I’ll be understood )

Thanks, although that doesn’t work either unfortunately!

I was recommended this too (http://pastie.org/4003689) which looks quite similar but neither seem to fix my problem

Also my friend on this side bar thing I just re-follow your code It works 100% Perfect but how can I put this sidebar on the left side so basically if I am using the default template of buddypress, I want it to have three columns left middle and right it already has content and right side bar but I am trying to add the left one. thanks bro again.

love you bro also I have another Question if I may ask? and that is I am using the buddypress default theme and was just wondering how to change the layout and also how to make a front page like a login and registration page which would disallow anoymounus from seeing other stuff. if you would like to take a look here is my url: http://www.buddyswired.com.

thanks my friend.

by the way your above code was awesome it worked perfectly.

Thank you very much mercime… I found some code to insert to put a favorite button on a post… that’s where I was looking for it to be. I’m happy with the results and I hope that buddypress will include it in their next release so I don’t need the hack any longer.

http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120712_PD_195/1/details/

between 5-6 seconds of load time and that’s just the homepage, the internal pages take a bit longer

should be easy to solve this, remove bottlenecks, install caching, and or move to better host

Update: this worked on my copy on the server:
http://wpmu.org/daily-tip-fix-for-buddypress-group-forums-error-when-creating-a-new-topic/

Thanks for the response newpress. I tried it, but unfortunately, that didn’t work either.

So to recap, I’ve tried the following:
uninstalled and removed both bbPress and BuddyPress
renamed bb-config.php (in order to try and trick BuddyPress for the purposes of re-initializing the group forum install)
downloaded BuddyPress and bbPress and reinstalled each
changed forum slugs in WP > Settings > Forums (multiple times)
made sure group forums were allowed in WP > Settings > Forums
I’ve set a brand new page at least 3 times as the assigned page for group forums under BP > Pages
I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve saved out Permalinks (WP > Settings > Permalinks)
enabled, disabled and re-enabled group forums from within the Groups as the admin (Admin Options > Group Settings) on about 7 different groups that were created, deleted and re-created multiple times
I’ve changed themes back and forth repeatedly between bp default and bp corporate (had no effect either way)

I’ve followed advice from several different posts in these forums:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/this-group-does-not-have-a-forum-setup-yet-1/?topic_page=1&num=15
and
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/this-group-does-not-have-a-forum-setup-yet-1/?topic_page=1&num=15
I’ve followed the BP Codex here:
https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/

I’ve looked online for other resources, and they are also ineffective (though problems with the BuddyPress group forums seems like a very common problem, and there seems to be quite a bit of confusion between the default forums provided via BuddyPress versus the forums provided by the bbPress plugin- albeit mostly attributed to older posts on other forums)

I’m testing now in 2 different places- a server and a local installation- neither instance works.

Multisite and single site- neither works.

The only thing I have left is this:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/forums-posting-problems-the-definitive-post/?topic_page=2&num=15

I guess I’ll give this a go, although I am NOT using Dreamhost, so I’m not even sure how applicable this will be for me.

I really don’t know where to go from here, and am also really, REALLY curious what use groups are supposed to serve in BuddyPress?
There is no support for PMs to group members.
There is no content that can be created or flagged specifically for different groups (‘BuddyPress Groups Extras’ plugin sort of solves this, but generates an array error everytime I open a group up- other plugins don’t seem to work properly and I’ve searched PAGES of plugins results for this functionality). This seems integral to the whole point of having hidden groups.

Group forums don’t seem to work reliably/consistently or in some cases (like mine) at all.

I apologize if that sounds snarky- that’s not my intent at all. I’m 100% honestly curious what purpose groups are supposed to serve within BuddyPress since I can’t seem to find anything that points to how they work or what purpose they serve due to the issues listed above. They sound like they have great potential, but I’m trying to find out what that potential is.

If there is a change or hack required to whatever database tables or PHP files or system files associated with any part of WP, BP, etc, I’ll be glad to try it and attempt to get group forums working.