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@neodjandre – The way the feature works is somewhat deceptive, what it does is posts a message on the screen (rather than their inbox) similar to what facebook does here – https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/facebook-groups-news-feed-error-message.png and it requires the template tag:
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As seen in the default theme sidebar – https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/bp-themes/bp-default/sidebar.php#L26

Hi @elangley,
sorry I could not reply earlier(was a little bit busy with some personal stuff).

Just checked today the case by writing posts on sub network and It showed up correctly on my local install. I am using Sub directory install though(It should not affect the sub domain install I believe). Can you confirm if you already have BP_ENABLE_MULTIBLOG defined in your bp-custom.php or wp-config.php ?

@djpaul, @mercime, Thank you for the mention. My apologies for not responding to this topic earlier. I had got the notification.

@o4tuna the way buddypress works in regards to roles and capabilities is being worked on by the core devs, half of it will be implemented in 1.6. Trac: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3740

Ref: https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/

There’s only one Group Forum per Group with no hierarchy. As for Sitewide Forums (the bbPress plugin), these forums are not associated to groups at all at this time. It’s in the roadmap to refactor/migrate Group Forums to Sitewide Forums @ BP 1.6. https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3598

You mean as seen on https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/2/#bp-sitewide-forums ?

1. https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/ go to page links on the right sidebar and read them
2. Albums/Galleries
a. BP Album/BP Media – free
b. BP Gallery – premium
Pinterist https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/pinterest – but none that I know specifically for the Albums/Galleries listed above.though you could make a request with plugin developer
3. User Blogs – you need to “Create a Network” i.e., make it Multisite

@alexanderraoul, i am sure u can hide this with css

https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/iis7-web-config/

Was going to post this link as it might have helped – if you have any choice in the matter try changing to a LAMP setup it’s really a lot less stressful

email is a function of your server, people do take a shortcut and try and skirt around issues with plugins but really one you should try and sort out at sever level.

`I wish there was more written about what buddypress can do and what the end result will look like. I don’t like the examples in the showcase because they don’t even remotely look like the buddypress that I have. I would love to see a very plain skeleton example of what buddypress does and how to set up a basic forum.`
BuddyPress has a test demo site [http://testbp.org] which will show you what it can do out of the box without doing any extra coding. The only way i can think of to put the end result into words is “It gives you a social network out of the box” (which is already on the BuddyPress.org homepage)

I’d highly recommend reading the Getting started pages on the codex https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/ go to page links on the right sidebar and read them

`For instance what is the difference between a forum and a post. They look exactly alike in the dashboard.`
As BuddyPress is an extension of WordPress, and is designed for WP users, is defining Blog Post and Forum Post necessary? I think your concern may be better at WordPress.org/forums as BuddyPress doesn’t define the word themselves, WordPress does.

`You can’t start a group because there are no topics.`
Are you using a plugin that makes topics a prequisite for starting a group? That’s not the way it works out of the box from my experience.

`Wouldn’t it be nice to have a little welcome page saying, “Here’s how to set up your buddypress forums. First you create a few groups. Then add topics to each group. You can’t add this until you add that so start with this.

I just want an overview so that I can know if I’m doing something wrong or if there is a problem with the software when I can’t add a forum or don’t see my topic.`
Seems you’ve already figured it out. As an open source project, You can contribute back what you learn by creating a codex article. https://codex.buddypress.org/

“MySQL server has gone away” is a pretty important error which must be affecting several things, even if it’s not the root cause of this issue. The connection to your database is being dropped, or lost, for some reason.

I do not know too much about configuring MySQL servers. The relevant documentation is http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/gone-away.html — I’d hope that your host would have sufficient technical knowledge to better understand approaches to fix the problem (it’s likely to be a configuration change done on the server setup, rather than your WordPress install).