If you are not yet running BuddyPress, then you will need to visit the WordPress.org support forums. This is a lot of information on this issue. WordPress is the foundation on which the plugin BuddyPress is installed. As you indicate above in your answer to question 6, you do not even have BP installed, so this is purely a WP issue.
FYI, you should probably ask @dwenaus to activate the plugin’s group forum so that others can find your solution once you have it.
All forum postings — except those from private groups, are displayed in the site wide forum stream. So, your posting was visible for awhile. It just gets pushed down if there are no replies. I suggest keeping your discussions within that group’s forum.
You need to contact the plugin author. They have a support group on BuddyPress.org but have not activated their group forum. Please read the readme.txt file or visit the plugin’s page on the WordPress Plugin Repository for information on how to contact them.
As the How-To and Troubleshooting forum is for supporting BuddyPress, and not 3rd-party plugins (especially ones that require payment to have AdSense code removed), I’m closing this thread.
@silversurferes, I’m closing this thread per above reasons. You did not do anything wrong. 
Well, yes. If you have an external bbPress install, you need to link to that on your site directly.
Here is the first Diaspora Video screencast. It might become competition to buddypress. ^^
http://www.joindiaspora.com/2010/07/01/one-month-in.html
@johnjamesjacoby Yes Buddypress 1.2.5
You can only override functions which are pluggable – I don’t believe any exists within BuddyPress (just the standard wp pluggable.php)
actions are just trigger points that are defined somewhere in the code
https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API#Hooks.2C_Actions_and_Filters
@apwinthrop – only thing on my test site is group forum extras that has an activity stream subplugin – this will display activity comments underneath a forum post.
@nuprn1 Or is this about remove_action and add_action? I found the groups_post_update but I can’t change it with my theme’s functions.php file. Because there’s a problem with filter or action thing…
Actually I don’t know how to replace functions with my_sample_function. For example I want to change something in the plugin’s function. But if I do that in the plugin’s file, I’ll lose changes when I upgrade. So what might be the solution to avoid this?
add_action, add_filter etc… How can I do that?
Thanks.
thanks, I am new to buddypress and was irritated a bit. you guys gonna fix it, I am sure you do 
@johnjamesjacoby I was so stoked when I found this thread, thinking I finally found a way to run a normal forum but allow users to have the same log in account for buddypress and bbpress, but after I went through it all integrating the two, buddypress just shoved the forum right back into their groups.
Same thing here: WP 2.9.2 with Hostgator, latest version of BuddyPress, couple of plug-ins but all compatible with the default theme and installation I am using. bbPress is in a subfolder in my buddypress plug-in folder
@apwinthrop: you’re the first person I’ve seen to get th forum working. What did you do???
My installation for the bbpress folder is in wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums. Does the extra folder level make a difference to the plugin working properly?
When I try to post from the cached homepage I get an error saying
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/virb/public_html/bicl/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/_inc/ajax.php:142) in /home/virb/public_html/bicl/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bb-config.php on line 10
Can anyone help me decipher what this means?
Same here @Dwenaus. dwaynne at gmail.com
Parts of themes have to be written specifically for BuddyPress; the project itself has been out for at least 18 months.
And you are using BuddyPress 1.2.5?
I figured it out. I deleted the folder “forums”(which had two subfolders wp-content and wp-includes, don’t know how) and reinstalled it new from the forums setup in the BuddyPress dashboard.
I figured it out. I needed to disable all my plugins and install a compatible theme. The theme updater did not work. Boy, this must be really new if most themes are not compatible.
David
1. Which version of WP/MU are you running?
WP 3.0
2. Did you install WP/MU as a directory or subdomain install?
installed in root directory
3. If a directory install, is it in root or in a subdirectory?
root
4. Did you upgraded from a previous version of WP/MU? If so, from which version?
no
5. Was WP/MU functioning properly before installing/upgrading BuddyPress (BP)? e.g. permalinks, creating a new post, commenting.
no
6. Which version of BP are you running?
none, I will consider it after I get this search issue fixed
7. Did you upgraded from a previous version of BP? If so, from which version?
no
8. Do you have any plugins other than BuddyPress installed and activated?
yes
9. Are you using the standard BuddyPress themes or customized themes?
N/A
10. Have you modified the core files in any way?
yes, but the search NEVER worked
11. Do you have any custom functions in bp-custom.php?
no
12. If running bbPress, which version? Or did your BuddyPress install come with a copy of bbPress built-in?
N/A
13. Please provide a list of any errors in your server’s log files.
N/A
14. Which company provides your hosting?
Site5
I am using 3.0. I installed the conversion plugin, and I am at Step Three
Now that the template files are in the correct location, click through your site (you can come back to this page at any point). You should see a BuddyPress admin bar at the top of the page, try visiting some of the links in the “My Account” menu. You should find that BuddyPress pages now work and are displayed.
No such admin bar appears anywhere on my blog. Tried installing buddypress again and reactivating after following steps, and no go, blank page, must ftp delete.
Tried in specific order you suggested. No go.
David
This is not currently possible with BuddyPress. There is some talk about allowing multiple BuddyPress installs under a single Multisite-enabled WordPress install, but that would not allow for the sharing of logins and passwords without some additional coding.
