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1. No, you don’t need to install bbPress plugin aka Sitewide Forums as well if you don’t need it in your specific installation. Having said that, know that per roadmap, come BP 1.6, group forums will be migrated into Sitewide Forums (bbPress plugin). For installation of Group/Sitewide Forums https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/

2. BuddyPress is a WP plugin, so no problem there at all. I test on XAMPP so I don’t know what challenges you face on a WAMP server, maybe someone can chime in on this one.

Did you check out BP Codex – to start off:
1. https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/before-installing/
2. https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/setting-up-a-new-installation/
3. https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/configure-buddypress-components/

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Sure they can post on single WP. You just have to upgrade their default role from “subscriber” to at least a “contributor” (needs your approval before post is published) or an “author” (can publish right away) and they’ll post from the backend (wp-admin Post > Add New).

Or, not change their roles and use Simple Front End Post plugin http://buddydev.com/plugins/bp-simple-front-end-post/

And/Or, just allow them to post in Group’s blog using this plugin http://buddydev.com/buddypress/blog-categories-for-groups-plugin/

I suggest that you also post at https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/u-buddypress-forum-attachment

The users need to login to kick that count into accurate life.

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/when-asking-for-support/
I hope you back up your database regularly.

@sobuddy

You still have an outstanding reply to respond to – help was given and solution provided for your previous issue with your theme please check that thread and mark it as resolved if issue corrected now before moving on to a new question about your theme header.

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/all-the-texts-are-turned-white-in-buddypress-default-theme-in-ie/

To clarify, un-activated user accounts will show in WordPress, but not in BuddyPress.

Sounds potentially @boonebgorges -ish; ping

you need wordpress multisite for that. Some host offer the possibility to automatically install multisite with softaculous. If you hosts doesn’t do this you need to do it manually here you can find the information. https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network

This theme is not available. Did you try and search for a free or paid theme that accomplishes this?

@jen915 WP themes can be made compatible with BuddyPress by installing and activating the BP Template Pack plugin then going through Appearance > BP Compatibility process. The last step would basically involve copying and pasting from the code I posted above to a file created above per instruction and uploading it to server.

Since I have never used Karma theme, I cannot offer any guarantee that even after you’ve fixed the layout of the BP template files to adopt your theme’s layout, that there won’t be any javascript or AJAX conflicts – as I’ve seen in 2 of the more advanced themes.

Per roadmap, BP 1.6 ==> BP Group Forums will be migrated to Sitewide Forums/bbPress 2.1 which is more easily indexed by Google

@mercime Yes, they are all blank because I haven’t attempted integrating them yet. I don’t know code (just basic wordpress user here) so I was afraid I would mess things up if I started messing around, especially since the karma theme wasn’t made for buddypress. I contacted an outside expert to help me but just wanted to reach out to someone who possibly used buddypress with karma to see how it worked out, if it worked well, before I pay this person and take all this time to try to make it work. (BP Version 1.5.5, Karma 2.6.9, WP Version 3.3.2)

@jen915 WP/BP versions? Did you go through the Installation Wizard after activating BuddyPress? What are the URI’s of your BuddyPress Pages? I get blank pages when I go to your site and append /groups or /members to your domain uri.

Hi! I also chose the karma theme and then found out I couldn’t easily integrate buddypress. Were you able to do it successfully? My site is for a school and I want parents to be able to log in to see teacher pages. Do you think this is possible? testingfms.com

thanks for any input.

The best approach is to create a child theme, this is actually extremely simple, however it does require a number of steps.
1. You need to create a new folder under/in /wp-content/themes/

2. In that folder you need to create a blank file called style.css

3. in that file you add :
`
/*
Theme Name: my theme name
Theme URI: http://buddypress.org
Description: a description – non essential.
Version: 1.0
License: GNU General Public License
License URI: license.txt
Author: yourself
Author URI: ?your site
Template: bp-default
Tags: buddypress, two-columns, fixed-width, whatever other keywords are applicable
*/
`
To do this you will need some form of access to your site server either FTP or via your Cpanel/plesk file manager to create folders /files.

Once you have that done then it’s simply a matter of going to ‘themes’ in the dashboard where you’ll be able to select your new theme.

At this stage as you only have a style.css file BP uses all of the default BP theme files including it’s own styles so activating your new theme will cause no apparent change – good! However you now have the ability to use style.css to add CSS properties/ rulesets that will be read after the BP ones and thus overwrite what may already have been set.

Using the WP editor under ‘appearence’ you should be able to select your child themes style.css and simply add the line:

body {font-size: 100%;}

or:

body {font: 100%/1.4 arial, ‘another font’, sans-serif’}

If the above is too awkward to accomplish then you will probably have to settle for editing the bp-default stylesheet directly and changing the ’12px’ on the body rule for ‘100%’ but those changes would be lost in any upgrades and have to be re-done.

Not possible yet.