That’s fine. You can bump your post if unanswered after 24 hours. All of us here are volunteers living in different time zones 
– check the generated bb-config.php file in the root of your WP install. Database info there correct?
– check your database via phpMyAdmin and see if the 7 tables needed for your Group Forums were generated. List of tables and screenshot https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/3/#bp-forums-db
Like in the way response is presented or grouped in hierarchy for the BP Activity Streams, WP Comment threads, Ning forums and/or the way gmail does? Because that’s not the traditional way that it is done for forums which have flat discussion threads. Having said that, a developer can always create a plugin to do so.
I’m simply reposting so that this will stay current and near the top. I’d really appreciate some help.
Hi @mercime
Posting to forums seem to be working, but when I go to my profile to see my list of forum posts, that is blank.
When I try and post in a group or comment/reply to anything in the activity stream, I get the error “There was an error posting that reply, please try again.”
== I cannot post in groups or comment on activity. ==
Do you mean you cannot post in forums of plugin group or in plugin reviews?
As for status updates in groups and profiles, these have been turned off deliberately at BuddyPress.org so no error there.
== The instructions on the page you gave are misleading because the screenshots for configuration (Step 9) show a menu link to the forums, when in reality there is no such menu link. ==
@neosin It was not meant to mislead, I added the links in my custom menu including that of the sitewide forums before I even created the tutorial. Tutorial has been edited with instruction to add the link to the sitewide forums in custom menu. Thanks.
@dgodot You have to delete the bb-config.php file created when you installed group forums https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/4/#uninstall-forums.
Here’s an actual bug — the “Uninstall Group Forums” button doesn’t actually do anything. The buttons to install the group forums appear after the process of removing them seems to have been complete, but the group forums still exist. Also, if you go back to admin.php?page=bb-forums-setup, the “Uninstall Group Forums” button will have reappeared..
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@mercime
Allow BuddyPress to function on multiple blogs of a WPMultisite installation, not just on one root blog:
define ( ‘BP_ENABLE_MULTIBLOG’, true );
how would this appear to work? does each blog have its own setting? or do we still do all settings from main network admin? will each blog have its own forum, eachdomain.com/forum?
@mercime It’s a new buddypress install on a new WP install: http://social.ourenglishclass.net. The admin pages say everything’s set up fine, but I can’t create a forum through the groups page or through the main forum page. I always get this message:
“This group does not have a forum setup yet.”
@mercime
==You create one in custom menu. What theme are you using?.
default BP them
The menu “Forum” link only shows up if you install “group forums”.
The instructions on the page you gave are misleading because the screenshots for configuration (Step 9) show a menu link to the forums, when in reality there is no such menu link.
Perhaps since you say I need to create a menu to access the forums, this should be included in the instructions page.
== If you choose Sitewide Forum as your forum option, you do not get a menu link to your forum. ==
You create one in custom menu. What theme are you using?.
== If I select to install Sitewide Forums for Buddypress, it presents a popup window to install bbPress as a plugin in wordpress. ==
That’s the way it’s done.
Have you read this: https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/
@davidveldt -This sounds like something that I have yet to do… what exactly should I be changing these things to? This is where my ‘newbie’ status’ comes into play. I have deactivated all plugins and went to the default theme, and still recieved the ‘forum not setup’ error again for the groups…
I am thinking that this may be exactly what I need to update, but don’t know what I should update my wp-config.php file to exactly? (as in my BBDB_NAME, BBDB_USER, BBDB_PASSWORD and BBDB_HOST files).
Your help is damn appreciated with all of this!
Should I be putting my own information or is there something special that goes here?
Thank you all!
Any ideas? I haven’t found a solution yet… 
If you use default BP theme just replace that line after class=”comment-meta” to:
http://pastebin.com/LMbh4mwQ
However, I don’t know how to do same with group forums. Any ideas?
I thought that this was likely the answer:
http://www.studiopress.com/plugins/genesis-connect
Special plugin from StudioPress ($50) to run with BuddyPress if you’re running the Genesis Framework.
Still have the same problem.
Have posted prob to StudioPress forum and they are currently responding.
Please change to bp-default theme to see if issue is resolved. It might just be that your custom theme needs to be be updated and you’d have to get assistance there from the theme developer.
Hi Mercime.
Genesis is the theme I’ve had running for six months since I first launched kairoscanada.org.
I’ll check in at StudioPress (who make Genesis) re. problems installing BuddyPress.
They’ve been good in providing support.
Will let forum know if they have any answers.
Thanks for the tips.
NIk
Wordpress is installed at the root domain.
I went through the upgrade process.
It’s a multi-site install.
It’s not the default theme; although the default theme has the same problems.
The /membership-information/ URLs are all pages.
I’ve tried changing the members page, slug, resaving permalinks, and so far nothing has worked. This only affects the members page. The activity, forums, and other buddypress features don’t show content on inappropriate pages.
The URLs load fine; but the content is always the buddypress membership information.
I deleted the spam posts but the tags stayed…I don’t see how to delete them.
I also deleted the spam groups, and yet it still counts 28…
Seems like either the software or me is missing something to control this..
@davidveldt updating DB info in bb-config.php along with wp-config.php is definitely something to remember when you migrate site from localhost.
@kingary – do you mean you also migrated from localhost and/or that you can’t get Group Forums going?
I’m having the same problem with a brand new install. All my config settings are correct, and I’ve activated forums.
I’m thinking about using it for instructional purposes, but until I can get the forums working, it’s relatively useless for that.
Okay well its the darndest thing…
I created a brand new group (the first I’ve created since updating bb-config.php) and successfully posted a topic. Everything appears to be working fine!
Osha, all of the above is my way of saying – check your bb-config.php file, located in your root folder. Make sure you have the correct `BBDB_NAME`, `BBDB_USER`, `BBDB_PASSWORD` and `BBDB_HOST` filled in. At least that’s where the solution was for me.
Okay, I solved half of the equation. I checked bb-config.php and realized I had never updated my database name, username, password or MySQL hostname, like I did for wp-config.php (funny, nobody ever mentioned that file for every migration tutorial I’ve seen).
I also made sure that the line `$bb->uri = ‘http://www.yoursite.com/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/’;` was correct.
Doing these, I can now post topics to groups that were existing before. I still can’t post to a brand new group. I still receive the “This group does not have a forum setup yet” error.
I’m having this same problem and I have disabled all plugins and reverted to the bp-default theme – no luck. I also can’t find a solution to this anywhere.
Everything works fine on my localhost version, but things went haywire when I transferred the site and my database to the server. All my bugs up until now have been database-related, and considering my admin panel no longer had Forums for Groups activated at first (even though it was prior to transfer, and all my other settings were saved just fine), I think this might be as well.
Also, I only receive the “This group does not have a forum” error when I try to post a new topic to a new group I create, post-migration. If I try to post a new topic to an existing group, that I previously set up while on my localhost, I receive the error “There was an error when creating the topic.”
