There can be some plugins that make this happen. Try deactivating all of them (except BuddyPress) one by one to see which might cause it.
You could have written some code in bp-custom.php file or in your theme’s functions.php – check those files as well.
Also, groups can’t be added to forums – they are different components. Although groups can have own forums.
Forgot about the plugin deactivate trick. I used the same plugins I have on another site with no issues. This worked like a charm though. My other site doesn’t have forums, so it would make sense a plugin could interfere. Thanks!
Help please
I have the same problem url for groups page is https://explore.scimednet.org/wp-admin/admin.php?page=bp-groups
Click on Add Group and it goes to http://explore.scimednet.org/groups/create/ which does not exist.
Latest version of everything WP 4.4.1
Have tried deactivating each plug-in to no avail.
Permalinks are set to /index.php/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname
Have tried uninstalling and reinstalling plug-in.
Many thanks
@lorddunvegan
Change permalinks to just /%postname%. Make sure you have a published Groups page in admin area and /groups/ link on front-end is accessible and display list of groups (or no groups message).
@slaffik Unfortunately changing the permalinks then breaks all the other pages on the web site.
Is it live?
Do you have .htaccess file in the root of your site? The same place, where you have wp-config.php file. If you have .htaccess – please post here its content (you can use pastebin.com to enter code details therŅ and post here just a link).
The site is live, we are using it for membership renewals at the moment, so I am very sensitive about losing that functionality. I have not got a .htaccess file.
All the best
Richard
Because of no .htaccess file (and no WordPress permalinks) BuddyPress will not be working properly. It requires permalinks enabled. On BuddyPress activation you should see this text:
You must update your permalink structure to something other than the default for it to work.
@slaffik Hi Slava – I got that permalink error originally and the changes I made fixed it. I have just reactivated the plug-in and there is no such error message, but still get the same error if I try and create a group.
If I were to create a .htaccess file what should be in it?
Thanks
Richard
@slaffik Apologies – I did not see the .htaccess file when I did a ls -l, however it is there:
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
Do I need to makes changes? Sorry I am not a programmer.
Richard
