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@alexpee you have set the text to align to centre in this line:
#horizontal-outer-widgets-1, #horizontal-outer-widgets-2 {text-align: center;}

@modemlooper Yeah, that would be nice, but it’s much more complicated. Open a ticket and we can start patching

I’ve been playing with BBPress 2.0 for a while. The quickest and easiest way to get it working is to copy the shortcode you require (or all of them and then edit the ones you don’t need) from https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-shortcodes

Paste the shortcodes you require into a new page you create within wordpress – or an existing page.

The forums list will show up along with topics list and so on if you use the correct shortcode.

I use a plugin to make it easy to find Post ID for each individual forum.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/showid-for-postpagecategorytagcomment/

Both bp_has_members() and bp_has_groups() now accept ‘exclude’ parameters. They accept a comma-separated string of group ids. bp_has_blogs() does not have an exclude parameter; feel free to open an enhancement ticket on trac.buddypress.org for this.

or try: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/ It also has an email tester built in to instantly check settings….

Hi @mpvshameem I was having this problem and it was solved by installing the plugin called Mail From by Andrew Hamilton. For some reason the confirmation emails weren’t getting sent (I have bluehost, and it seems to be a common issue with them).
This plugin helped the emails get through, but it actually didn’t actually do anything else that it was supposed to do. I wanted to change the mail from address that people see in the confirmation email but I ended up having to call bluehost and they fixed it for me. The bluehost rep told me that WP often has generic or inaccurate headers so some things don’t work as they should. I pretended like I understood what that meant and was happy my problem was solved.

I have the same problem.

@sbruner, okay that second article was a lot more easy to follow. so now it says my footer and header are ready to be used as widgets. but when i got to wp-admin/apperance/widgets, i only see the menu for sidebar widgets, shouldnt there be a footer and header as well?

@guileshill I see that you’ve changed to bp-default theme. Go to http://artsnet.co/groups/ – do you see the “Create Group” link beside page title “Groups Directory”?

This site here is not a sandbox. It’s not meant to test things out. That would be http://testbp.org, as you can see from the theme, for example. testpb runs the default theme, while we have a more or less functional custom theme here

Install BuddyPress in a subdomain or, better locally on your home computer, and test out what it can do and what it can’t do. testbp is good in that you can see what you can do as an end user, but you won’t know what you can adjust as a site admin.

My philosophy is everyone starts knowing nothing we all know varying things and should share to help each other. Whilst a lot of what I think you want to know would be helped if you can by installing BuddyPress on a a site somewhere and exploring or trying the test site (http://testbp.org/). Let me see if I can help a little.

Traditional forums would be what bbpress (https://bbpress.org/) would be your solution for. Now, in saying that BuddyPress uses bbpress for forums. So it’s a mutual use in sense of BuddyPress.

The way groups work are yes by having forums. The way I like to think of them are hang outs / clubhouses where there is a link between members and they can discuss. I may have an interest in dogs (the main site) but I may only want to talk about dog training or labradors (those would be groups). That’s a bit of a broad explanation but hopefully gets the notion across.

Now can you have traditional forums – yes with bbpress but groups is a more segemented talking.

Others may have their own breakdowns of it but to me this is what groups and forums are in simple terms.

Some more links to share with you though that may help it make a bit more sense:

https://buddypress.org/about/story/

And here is from the buddypress.org home page about groups:

“Powerful public, private or hidden groups allow your users to break the discussion down into specific topics. Extend groups with your own custom features using the group extension API.”

And about forums:

“Full powered discussion forums built directly into groups allow for more conventional in-depth conversations.”

Use beta BuddyPress 1.5 and the bbpress plugin. Go over to testbp.org and you can see the combo in action