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thanks @modemlooper but i have werry litle knowledge of ths field and i dont think i can do it , i need steep by steep instructions or i need to find someone to doit for me . i dont mind to pay anyone who can doit .

Thanks for the response newpress. I tried it, but unfortunately, that didn’t work either.

So to recap, I’ve tried the following:
uninstalled and removed both bbPress and BuddyPress
renamed bb-config.php (in order to try and trick BuddyPress for the purposes of re-initializing the group forum install)
downloaded BuddyPress and bbPress and reinstalled each
changed forum slugs in WP > Settings > Forums (multiple times)
made sure group forums were allowed in WP > Settings > Forums
I’ve set a brand new page at least 3 times as the assigned page for group forums under BP > Pages
I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve saved out Permalinks (WP > Settings > Permalinks)
enabled, disabled and re-enabled group forums from within the Groups as the admin (Admin Options > Group Settings) on about 7 different groups that were created, deleted and re-created multiple times
I’ve changed themes back and forth repeatedly between bp default and bp corporate (had no effect either way)

I’ve followed advice from several different posts in these forums:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/this-group-does-not-have-a-forum-setup-yet-1/?topic_page=1&num=15
and
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/this-group-does-not-have-a-forum-setup-yet-1/?topic_page=1&num=15
I’ve followed the BP Codex here:
https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/

I’ve looked online for other resources, and they are also ineffective (though problems with the BuddyPress group forums seems like a very common problem, and there seems to be quite a bit of confusion between the default forums provided via BuddyPress versus the forums provided by the bbPress plugin- albeit mostly attributed to older posts on other forums)

I’m testing now in 2 different places- a server and a local installation- neither instance works.

Multisite and single site- neither works.

The only thing I have left is this:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/forums-posting-problems-the-definitive-post/?topic_page=2&num=15

I guess I’ll give this a go, although I am NOT using Dreamhost, so I’m not even sure how applicable this will be for me.

I really don’t know where to go from here, and am also really, REALLY curious what use groups are supposed to serve in BuddyPress?
There is no support for PMs to group members.
There is no content that can be created or flagged specifically for different groups (‘BuddyPress Groups Extras’ plugin sort of solves this, but generates an array error everytime I open a group up- other plugins don’t seem to work properly and I’ve searched PAGES of plugins results for this functionality). This seems integral to the whole point of having hidden groups.

Group forums don’t seem to work reliably/consistently or in some cases (like mine) at all.

I apologize if that sounds snarky- that’s not my intent at all. I’m 100% honestly curious what purpose groups are supposed to serve within BuddyPress since I can’t seem to find anything that points to how they work or what purpose they serve due to the issues listed above. They sound like they have great potential, but I’m trying to find out what that potential is.

If there is a change or hack required to whatever database tables or PHP files or system files associated with any part of WP, BP, etc, I’ll be glad to try it and attempt to get group forums working.

Wow! Thank you very much! As far as I can tell that worked!

One question/concern. I did not change the following because, well, I couldn’t find them:

/groups/single/home.php
/groups/single/plugins.php
/members/single/home.php
/members/single/plugins.php
/members/single/settings/delete-account.php
/members/single/settings/general.php
/members/single/settings/notifications.php

Here’s what is visible:

Templates

activity-loop.php
comment.php
entry.php
Main Index Template
(activity/index.php)
post-form.php
blogs-loop.php
create.php
Main Index Template
(blogs/index.php)
Comments
(comments.php)
core_functions.php
custom_functions.php
import_settings.php
options_chameleon.php
post_thumbnails_chameleon.php
Footer
(footer.php)
forums-loop.php
Main Index Template
(forums/index.php)
Theme Functions
(functions.php)
create.php
groups-loop.php
Main Index Template
(groups/index.php)
Header
(header.php)
home.php
breadcrumbs.php
entry.php
featured.php
navigation.php
no-results.php
postinfo.php
scripts.php
top_info.php
widgets.php
Main Index Template
(index.php)
Main Index Template
(members/index.php)
members-loop.php
Blog Page Page Template
(page-blog.php)
Contact Page Page Template
(page-contact.php)
Full Width Page Page Template
(page-full.php)
Gallery Page Page Template
(page-gallery.php)
Login Page Page Template
(page-login.php)
Search Page Page Template
(page-search.php)
Sitemap Page Page Template
(page-sitemap.php)
Portfolio Page Page Template
(page-template-portfolio.php)
Page Template
(page.php)
activate.php
register.php
Search Form
(searchform.php)
Sidebar
(sidebar.php)
Single Post
(single.php)

Styles

Stylesheet
(style.css)

Am I just missing them?

Solved my problem with help from this thread
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/this-group-does-not-have-a-forum-setup-yet-1/?topic_page=1&num=15

Post 7 from @Deleted User solved my problem.

1. Unchecking the forums component in the BuddyPress Component settings page.
2. Renaming bb-config.php in your WordPress installation root directory to something else (making BuddyPress believe that bbPress is not installed).
3. Re-checking the forums component in the BuddyPress Component settings page.
4. Re-installing the group forum component in the BuddyPress Settings “Forum” tab.

Hope this can help someone else as well, was really frustrating not being able to post anything.

I can ad, that on each group setting I had to uncheck and recheck the “enable forum”

@mercime Thanks so much for the help. I have it all in there and it’s all looking great: http://chipyela.com/members/. My only issue is still the AJAX/Javascript. I’m stuck. On Members page, try Order By and the AJAX cog just keeps spinning.

I don’t know much about AJAX and Javascript other than I know there can be conflicts. I don’t know how much you know about Canvas, but it’s a powerhouse: lots going on with all kinds of features. I’ve tried:

— Made Canvas main theme (didn’t work),
— Made other WOO themes active (then AJAX works),
— Turned off any feature I could find in Canvas, (didn’t work),
— Even deleted any JS file I found in Canvas (didn’t work, then put them back),

Any ideas what it might be? Well, I guess we know what it is: a Javascript/AJAX conflict, but any ideas on fixing it? I use Canvas SO MUCH and I’m just getting into BuddyPress and I would love to get this working. I’m sure with the end of support at WOO for Canvas BuddyPress (for which the AJAX didn’t work either, BTW), it’d be great to have a Canvas theme working with BuddyPress.

Any ideas are welcome! Thank you so much for your time.

@mercime I did what you told me by changing almost to all available permalink and the issue still exists. The error I am getting is:
The following active BuddyPress Components do not have associated WordPress Pages: Activity Streams, Discussion Forums, User Groups, Members.
but when I go Buddypress pages I can not find any of the above pages to associate Activity, Streams and so on.
Plus I am using Templatic GeoPlaces theme.

Thanks for your help.

@mercime first off sorry If I am doing anything wrong.

And what I got down was those plugins that you told me about and what happen to buddypress is this,

So I download the plugins and stick them on my site then all of the sudden, my slider on the site starts to show funny code things that I can’t find, the pages worked at that time and later, they didn’t work either making it seem odd. I began to play around and try to find the missing functions but I couldn’t find them. I tried plenty of things but it just wouldn’t work, Like I said every time I enable it the site has problems with those pages, I am only trying to figure out how and why these are happening. I don’t quite know what the functions are but I do know that something went wrong.

Site: videogamerznetwork.com (BuddyPress not active on this site right now)

OK, I poked around and I did find the problem, although I’m not sure I really understand it. Maybe a javascript conflict somehow?

I also found a fix, but it involved editing the core files, so not really advisable. But anyway, it works for now, and I’ll put it here so others can find it if they encounter the same issue. I would love it if someone more knowledgable than me could see what happened and why and maybe a better firx.

My workaround was to edit the core files bp-blogs/bp-blogs-template.php, bp-groups/bp-groups-template.php, and bp-members/bp-members-template.php

Each of those defines the search form for the different areas, and in each of them there’s a little onblur and onfocus javascript to fill in the value for the search field (“search members” or “search groups” or whatever).

The search form is in each of those, you can find it just by doing a text search for onfocus. Then you want to get rid of the javascript and just have the search field be blank.

So you’re looking for:

`value=”” onfocus=”if (this.value == ”) {this.value = ”;}” onblur=”if (this.value == ”) {this.value = ”;}”`

and you just want to change that to

`value=””`

Not too elegant, and I realize that the next buddypress upgrade will break this and I’ll have to do it again, but it solves the problem for now. Still would be happy to hear other ideas!

@ChrisClayton I’m still working on this

An issue I’ve noticed is that for some reason I cannot find, some activity buttons like add to favorites or comment are not working. For example, if I try to add an activity update to my favorites, it actually sends me to the URL http://mysite.com/activity/favorite/218/?_wpnonce=a067fd9559

I’ve checked and the URL is the exact same one that appears on other screens and the link works just fine (it applies some jQuery, I believe) but on this new page it takes me to that URL which is a 404.

Thank you again