[RecDC]

I’m using: WordPress 4.1.2, BuddyPress 2.2.3.1, SelfHelp.on.ca

Ran into an obstacle. I am at the step of installing Group & Sitewide Forums. No. 7 of the instruction has me stuck. I stopped after adding the Forums page with the code in it to, to the menu. There is a picture to the right of the instruction depicting how step 7 should go, but I don’t ever see that screen when I try to do step 7. I even tried adding a new page called Group Forums and I don’t even see the option to change from ‘forum’ to ‘category’. See instructions below
• Create a new Forum as the “parent forum” for all of your Group Forums.
• Go to Forums > Add New
• Add Title, e.g. Group Forums
• Change Forum Attribute Type from “Forum” to “Category”

[@mercime]

@dleit Re: There is a picture to the right of the instruction depicting how step 7 should go, but I don’t ever see that screen when I try to do step 7.

Looks like you deactivated bbPress. If you activate it again and cannot find the Forum Attribute box, then I suggest you try re-uploading bbPress via s/FTP or you can delete bbPress from the admin backend then install it again.

[RecDC]

@mercime Re: Looks like you deactivated bbPress. If you activate it again and cannot find the Forum Attribute box, then I suggest you try re-uploading bbPress via s/FTP or you can delete bbPress from the admin backend then install it again.

The plug-in I’m using is not bbPress. It’s BuddyPress. So I found the tab where I would have been able to do the steps in instruction #7.”Go to Forum> Add New….etc” but it’s under the heading “retired” and it tells me in Buddypress to use bbPress for this particular feature. I don’t know if I should delete the BuddyPress plug-in all together and just use bbPress instead or just install the bbPress plug-in, activate and then pick up with instruction #7 from there.

[danbp]

If you need forums with your BuddyPress Groups you have to install bbPress.

Read here for details:

Installing Group and Sitewide Forums

[RecDC]

Thanks a bunch @danbp. Now off to figuring out how to get past the “user registration not allowed” issue and then I’ll good to go.

Thanks again. 🙂