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You need to provide a temporary login if you want people to look at your site.

You can check for theme problems by momentarily switching to a WP theme like 2015 and see if your issues still exist.

Your forum url is odd… Usually it would be something like this:
/groups/group-name/forum/

If you are running code that changes the url structure, try removing that code.

Changing themes is easy.
Go to wp-admin > Appearance > Themes

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Nobody is going to register – so create a user and post the username & password here.
You can delete the user later.

@shanebp what if i want to change the default “forum url” creation from something like this:
/groups/group-name/forum/

….to something like:
/groups/group-name/chat/

….?

i’ve gone into the ‘settings’ area and changed the root forum name to ‘chat’ and had ‘topics by freshness’ selected, had it unselected, have changed the default forum to not be the root, etc. etc…..no luck

i heard somewhere about a plugin that could change this default URL path creation to something else, but never heard which plugin it could be

i do NOT want to hack core files — any suggestions?

@timehubzone — don’t know how a username with a space in it would be relevant; this is not related to usernames or user profiles

‘change the permalink setting from the default that WP installs with’….in what menu? in the ‘forum’ settings…? did that

here’s what the ‘forum’ settings in WP looks like: