1. Have you tried BuddyPress Group Forums & bbPress (or known as Sitewide forums). Both of them integrate well with BuddyPress and will show up in the activity stream when someone start a topic or post a reply.
https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/

2. I think most of the BuddyPress compatible theme should fits your need. You just need to configure it so it looks like a normal blogs in the front while still maintain the social media functions.

Yes it’s located in your style.css:
http://www.adamnevil.net/wp-content/themes/unsigned/style.css

Find these lines
`
a.button,
a.comment-reply-link,
#commentform #submit,
.submit,
input[type=submit],
input.button,
button.button {
display: inline-block;
margin: 5px;
padding: 6px 12px;
border: none;
color: white !important;
text-align: center;
text-shadow: 1px 2px 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);
text-decoration: none;
text-transform: uppercase;
font-size: 1em;
`

Change the
`
color: white !important;
`
to something like
`
color: #222 !important;
`

@raoulbeltra either within a plugin file or your themes functions.php
You can read more at https://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_a_Plugin

From what i understand you are trying to do, then yes, just replace `echo do_shortcode(‘SexyButton’);` to whatever you want to show.

@edgarestradac you would add that to your theme’s stylesheet aka style.css file.

Check if your theme has a custom menu where you can choose to add only the pages you want in your main navigation. Most themes with custom menu default to wp_page_menu which lists all available pages whether you want it or not.

rename wp-content/themes/custom-community to wp-content/themes/custom-community-xxx via FTP/cpanel and if that doesn’t work, rename wp-content/plugins/buddypress to wp-content/plugins/buddypress-xxx

I saw this happen with a theme submitted to the WP theme repo. If it’s the same theme, the theme author would have the solution by now.

Users? users are a WP function so if you can’t create users (Assuming that you have allowed registrations in WP settings) then you have to fix that issue first before worrying about BP issues. As for the BP group issue are you using the bp-default theme or a third party one? if a third party theme deactivate it and run the standard BP theme and see if things work with that theme if they do you have an issue with your third party theme and either need to talk to the author or perhaps actually run through the process of making it BP compatible – check the BP Codex for guides.

Can we please refrain from using phrases such as ‘great *service* to this forum’ Mercime does do a phenomenal job helping people with their third party themes but this is a support forum for BP issues and of the bp-default theme and not really meant to be a service for providing third party theme compatibility.

You have a custom theme that’s supposed to be BuddyPress-ready. I would contact theme author regarding this issue. To confirm if it is a theme issue, change to bp-default theme, clear cache and see if issue is corrected.

== one of the links in the dropdown menu at the top of the page ==
What browser are you using?

== using the buddypress 2011 theme as well. ==
Which BuddyPress 2011 theme? theme URI? Does the same behavior apply when you change to bp-default theme?

bbPress 2 autocloses posts after a configurable period of time, so it’s got you covered.

Great. Simplifying is better

@mercime we’ll have to see if jjj can pinch that plugin from wp.org auto closing of older threads would be good, but for those that we can directly attribute a thread [resolved] tag to we close them at same time?

Hadn’t considered the theme compatibility threads needing to be open, but in regard of those it has struck me that really the main core of those threads ought to be removed and pasted into a codex sub page running under theme compatibility, so that you have a generic steps and code for a given theme conversion – users could still add updates etc to a codex page.

B. At the bottom of the same 16 files, replace:
`

`

with the following (except for registration/register.php):
`

`

with the following for registration/register.php:
`

jQuery(document).ready( function() {
if ( jQuery(‘div#blog-details’).length && !jQuery(‘div#blog-details’).hasClass(‘show’) )
jQuery(‘div#blog-details’).toggle();
jQuery( ‘input#signup_with_blog’ ).click( function() {
jQuery(‘div#blog-details’).fadeOut().toggle();
});
});

`

Save files.

C. Upload the 6 BP folders containing the 16 files you’ve just revised to your server wp-content/themes/neu/

D. Copy the style modifications made in BP Twenty Ten at https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/theme-dev-bp-template-pack-walkthrough-twenty-ten-bp-1-5/3/ and paste to your theme’s stylesheet. Adjust to taste.

Based on the HTML structure of your theme, you need to use the first option, i.e., change 16 template files within the 6 BP folders transferred to your Neu theme folder in server during the compatibility process.

If you’ve previously changed any of the BP template files in your theme folder, replace all of them for a clean slate by deleting the 6 BP folders in server – /activity, /blogs, /forums, /groups, /members, and /registration – then re-run Appearance > BP Compatibility.

Download the 6 clean BP folders to your computer hard drive. We’re going to use the basic HTML structure of your theme.

A. At the top of each of those 16 template files I linked to above, replace
`

@venusd no problem. Just to sure, could you post the source codes of your theme’s header.php and loop-page.php to pastebin.com or tinypaste. Please feel free to donate to the American Red Cross Thanks.

== Linux. Single WP. WP/BP is installed on the domain root. ==

Deactivate plugins esp. membership plugins and re-upload BuddyPress then activate bp-default theme.

== that sitewide forums was a known issue that was expected to be sorted out by BP 1.6 =

There have been some who posted in our forums about issues with getting both working at the same time. Some have been resolved by reinstalling WP manually instead of using webhost script to install WP. Many have been resolved by changing the Archive base slug of Sitewide Forums to avoid slug conflict with Group forums, etc. then adding the bbPress shortcode/s.

As for BP 1.6, it’s in the roadmap to migrate existing Group Forums into Sitewide Forums.

== we changed the password in theme/wp-config ==

I presume your missing topics are in the Group Forums which means that you forgot to also change the DB info/password in the bb-config.php file (generated when Group forums are installed) which is located in the same directory where your wp-config.php is located.

@niwaroll Next Avengers cast eh? Thanks, glad it worked out for you