@Paul Gibbs… changes the directory from groups to alg… now, none of the pages work… To me that’s a good thing. I was really tired of looking at page not found. Do you think I need to reinstall BP.
@4ella, I just emailed you with some info!

Any menu items that are associated with GROUPS does not work. I’ve now installed BP (1.5.3) 3 times and the same error – PAGE NOT FOUND pops up… I have resaved the permalinks numerous times… NO LUCK. I only have the BP plugin installed and activated (No other plugins)…
BuddyPress is installed in a sub folder of the server with its own WordPress install of course.
When I attempt to check a group invite notification I get the following URL:
http://www.adamleipzig.com/groups/members/ajbat21/groups/invites/?n=1
PAGE NOT FOUND – We’re sorry, but we can’t find the page that you’re looking for. Perhaps searching will help.
When I attempt to navigate (using admin bar) to – groups/memberships – or – groups/invitations –
http://www.adamleipzig.com/groups/members/ajbat21/groups/my-groups/
http://www.adamleipzig.com/groups/members/ajbat21/groups/invites/
PAGE NOT FOUND – We’re sorry, but we can’t find the page that you’re looking for. Perhaps searching will help.
FYI:
All other menu links work…
Hello … I have the same problem … impossible to translate the .php file… the text stay in English …
I’ve turned debugging on, and nothing has shown up. As it goes, the site has no other plugins apart from EM and BP running. If you have a look at carclubevents.net you’ll see what it does. The EM guys are giving me options, but if you have a look, it just loops back to the main page, it shows Members, but no Events. The events menu is linked back to the events page, but the buddypress theme doesn’t work with it.
Like: yourlocalproject.com
ONE user can create a group for others and invite users to the seperate community…
How did the do that?
Users cannot edit their usernames in frontend user profiles nor in backend user profiles at all. If you mean display names, you can install https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-usernames-only/ so that even if they change display names, what will appear in the front end would be their usernames. Read the Installation instructions and FAQ.
Read the forums, looked around for similar problems…I have tried simply logging out, but to no avail.
Problem:
-Create a page in wordpress to use for new member registration.
-Go into buddypress pages menu and set the register page to the aforementioned wordpress page.
-Refresh and go to home screen, registration page shows up on top nav, but when clicked it brings me back to the home page.
– When I log out, the page no longer shows up in the nav.
Help please.
Hello Folks,
I’m hoping someone can be kind enough to help with my error message, I’m a newbie on here so please go easy on me but hopefully my problem is relatively easy to fix!
Both for my groups and forums I’m getting an error message. Whenever I click on forums or try to add a new group I get a 403 warning message: “You are not authorised to access the web page”. I can get as far as creating a new groups > setting public/private members > invitation settings. I then click on next step and I get the 403 warning message. This also happens when I click on forums. Did I miss a step in my setup or something. There’s only one user (that’s me!) and I’m an admin so I thought that gave me godly powers in relation to groups / forums etc?
MY SETUP:
Wordpress: 3.3.1
BuddyPress Version: 1.5.3.1 (widget added from dashboard widget area)
Servers: Linux, Apache.
Active Widgets: Buddypress (only!)
Theme: BP-default with child theme built on this (however I only have a style.css file, no uniquename_functions.php so I can’t see this creating a conflict?)
Install or update: Clean install (ie no updates or anything all freshly installed as of today – 25/01/2012).
Any ideas greatly appreciated!
Thanks very much for any help!
Thanks for reminding me about using widgets! How nuts is that!… ‘paralysis-by-analysis’ and all that – I was just mesmerised by getting the forum to work, which it does now… incredible! Thanks dcavins and mercime!
Question for mercime: Perhaps the deactivation of Discussion Forums via Components tab should be mentioned in the Installation instructions for BuddyPress so bbPress would work and do its thing. I would never have known how to sort this out because I was on a hiding to nothing following the advice on the bbPress forum itself, which had me chasing my tail! Good thing you guys know what you’re talking about!
At https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/2/ I still don’t quite understand the following…
“Note: During the Installation Wizard, Forums will be associated with the “Forums” page. In some installations, you do not need to change anything. But if your sitewide forums won’t work, go to wp-admin BuddyPress > Pages and you’ll find the association and remove the Forums Page as the selected page.”
As far as I can see removing the Forums Page is not an option from the Pages tab (!) – only from the Components tab where Discussion Forums can be unchecked…mmmmm…
you send it here info@4ella.com , but I don’t consider myself theme expert !! 
Perfect! Thanks so much for the links. Just what I need.
I am looking to change the name of the “forum” sub nav tab in the groups to something like “message boards”. I have found this article:
http://themekraft.com/customize-profile-and-group-menus-in-buddypress/
It explains how to change the name of a tab, but when I add the code to my bp-custom.php file, nothing changes.
I am using WP 3.3.1 and BP 1.5.3.1
Is there a way to make those changes?
@mercime This is the theme im trying to make work…
Reaction:
http://reaction.mdnw.net/
I did edit so I want it to do what I need it to…
Its just the BP pages im screwed on…
The site is http://www.roadunit.com, but its private.
I did install and activate the template pack, and its making my profile pages go as wide an my screen is.

@4ella I am using Chrome as my browser, and I do have Firebug installed on it. I triiied playing with it and screwed up something thats making all pages in the “meta” bottom part of the BP pages.
UGH.

how can I email credentials to log in?? @mercime @4ella
Thanks for helping out

Hi,
Yesterday I installed buddypress(1.5.3.1) and set my website’s front page as an activity page.
I really like this cool feature but the activity stream looks a little long for me. I want to set the length of the stream like buddypress.org Site Activity page.
Here is what I want to change.
1. Set the activity excerpt length shorter.
2. Want to show the “Load More” bar after 5 or 10 activity streams.
Please help me!
You’ve changed ‘uploads to ‘media’ or ‘wp-content’ to ‘media’ either way I’m not sure if BuddyPress checks for defined constants for paths set in wp-config or wp-settings you would have to check through the core files to see how paths are handled.
@mercime a bridge? You make it sound so scary, it’s not like trying to integrate bbpress 1.0 with wordpress… THAT was a bridge (with a scary troll underneath for an added bonus). 
I prefer to call them ‘connectors’ as in “a plugin that connects one plugin to another”… man i have ALOT of thoes 
@mangolife – It’s extremely easy to connect a well-written wordpress plugin to buddypress profiles (even easier if they are using wordpress features, such as post types)
The difficult part was adding entries from the plugins to the activity streams, but i believe that is being addressed for a future release.
Buddypress Codex Entry: https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/functions/core/bp_core_new_nav_item/
You should also read through the WordPress Codex entry on Administration Menus as they are very similar – https://codex.wordpress.org/Adding_Administration_Menus (and will help alot when you get to ‘screen_functions’ in the above buddypress codex entry.)
@gerryleblanc – Buddypress DOES support ‘pretty permalinks’, they dont however support the default (?p=x) structure. Have you tried removing ‘index.php’ from your permalinks? did it help?
Try using the permalink ‘/archives/%post_id%’ and see if that works.
You said “several things don’t seem to work.” but only mention one, what was the other things?
@jurry123 – We ‘react’, we also sleep occasionally 
Thanks will check the links out.
As mentioned here – https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/bp-custom-php – “if you don’t have a file called bp-custom.php [..] go ahead and add one” 
Guys, I’ve downloaded the POedit and created the .po and .mo files, I inserted on the _lang folder, but it`s not working…
What else I have to do?
Thanks