Hi George,
Have you upgraded to BuddyPress 2.4, if yer, there are some good news.

In BuddyPress 2.4 you can have custom home page for all groups by using a custom template file front.php

More details here
https://bpdevel.wordpress.com/2015/10/03/get-ready-2-4-0-will-introduce-important-changes-in-groups-homes/

Once you have got front.php, It is all about including the loops.

Use

<?php bp_get_template_part( 'forums/forums-loop' ) ?>

<?php bp_get_template_part( 'activity/activity-loop' ) ?>

and so on to include the latest content from these. The only concern is these loops will generate 20 items and not 10.

There is a filter on bp_ajax_querystring that we can use to limit the result to 10. But first, can you please give the above a try and see if it works for you or not?

PS: A widget for MediaPress recent photos/galleries as slider will come. I am a little bit busy with our upcoming theme next week and blog categories plugin, that’s why things seem a little slower around.

Hi George,
If you got the fatal error, most probably you have forums component disabled.

If you haven’t installed bbPress yet, please install the bbPress plugin. After that visit BuddyPress settings and enable forums component.
After that code should work fine.

To include the post form, we can just add another snippet like this

<?php if ( is_user_logged_in() && bp_group_is_member() ) : ?>

	<?php bp_get_template_part( 'activity/post-form' ); ?>

<?php endif; ?>

And that will include the the post form. Hope that helps.

Please do let me know how it goes with you.

Hi George,
I had a look in details.

The old forum is deprecated and that’s why you get the fatal error.

The need bbPress plugin does not provide much scope here. The only suitable way seems to be Use WP_Query or bbp_has_topics and create custom loop.

It is much more complicated but you can see it in bbpress/templates/default/loop-topics.php and see how they have mimplemented it.

Once you have that loop in place, we can pass the forum id to bbp_has_topics using bbp_get_group_forum_ids( bp_get_current_group_id() );

That will take some work to get it all working together though.

Hi George,
Thank you. I am glad we are progressing towards the result.

Try looking for this line in your custom loop

bbp_has_topics ()

and we need to modify it to

$forum_ids    = bbp_get_group_forum_ids( bp_get_current_group_id() );

if ( !empty( $forum_ids ) ) {
	$forum_id = (int) is_array( $forum_ids ) ? $forum_ids[0] : $forum_ids;
}

bbp_has_topics ( array( 'post_parent' => $forum_id ) );

That will fetch the topics for relevant groups.

You will also need to check if the forum_id is empty then to avoid showing the loop.

Hope that helps.