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It looks like you haven’t set up your permalinks correctly, or that there is a problem with your .htaccess.

Go to Dashboard > Settings > Permalinks. Make sure that you have chosen an option other than the first option, and click Save. (Save your settings even if you don’t change them – just saving them can trigger things to work.)

If the site links still don’t work, check in the root of your WP installation for a hidden file called .htaccess. Is it there? What are its contents?

Do you happen to know what operating system your server is running?

BuddyPress is a “network only” plugin. That means that you can only “network activate” it. But, the way BP works, you generally only show BP content on a single one of your blogs – we call that the “root blog”. By default, it is blog number 1, the main blog in your network. For this to work, just activate a BP-compatible theme (like BuddyPress Default).

If you want your community/BP content to be on a blog other than the main blog, you’ll have to define an alternative root blog. In wp-config.php:
`define( ‘BP_ROOT_BLOG’, 6 );`
where you replace ‘6’ with the id of your desired root blog.

@andrewteg, I tried the code you provided but nothing new happened. then i got rid of the comment-outs (i think I did it the right way) and I pasted in this code (http://pastebin.com/HY9zwhHg) but that didnt work either.

i will give that plugin a shot though because all I really want is the forums. Though I do need to be able to occasionally e-mail all the forum members. hopefully it will let me do that.

This was an intermediary fix for the non-working profile privacy plugin: http://www.quora.com/BuddyPress/Is-it-possible-to-make-all-the-Buddypress-features-only-accessible-for-logged-in-users

Following up on this: There were rumours that the functionality of BP Profile Privacy would be included in the next update – that did not happen, did it? I think it would be really essential to be allowed to block your profile to non-logged-in users and/or non-friends, no? Am I just blind or was there a reason that it was not included or just too little time or…
Dont get me wrong, I love buddypress and am really really grateful that it exists!

bp-default is in BuddyPress plugin folder, you’ll need it to run BuddyPress. There’s super admin option for multiste to set which users can use which themes.

Could this help?

http://wpmu.org/daily-tip-want-to-run-buddypress-on-multiple-blogs-in-your-wpmu-install-heres-how/

It depends what you want to happen on favourite.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/add-to-any/ works for social / bookmarking.

If you wanted to add the BuddyPress style favorites though that would be:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-favorites/

Or perhaps likes with this plugin:

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-like/

I am not 100% sure how updated any of those plugins are though.

First up have you both checked that the themes you are using have been updated for BuddyPress 1.5?

I think it was something to do with buddypress 1.5 install. There is no widget, no login form on my websites either and the boxes are out of sync. A lot of problems with this buddypress 1.5 install.

Do you have a link to your website so we can look?

https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-activity-stream-loop/

What do you have set to appear on the home page in wp-admin under Appearance > Reading?

I doubt that it’s BuddyPress unless you are up for turning plugins off one-by-one and figuring out what’s going on.

What theme are you using? Which widgets – native WP or BP members/groups – are not sticking to sidebar/footer widget area?

I had a problem upgrading in test install with 4 dozen WP/BP/MU plugins being checked out. It turns out that not all the BuddyPress files were uploaded in auto upgrade from dashboard. Most probably plugin conflict. Suggest re-upload BuddyPress manually via FTP/cpanel – it worked for me.