Hello regarding you issue, I have downloaded a newer theme ALizee, and it kind of solved all the issues you addressed, the “create group” icon now appears also the latest topics posted appears.
Also by accident I have “un ticked” the below:
– Automatically add new top-level pages to this menu
– Primary Menu
– Social
in the menu setting and it worked well.
If you still can’t view forum, you can create new page call it forums and in the html “txt” write [bbp-forum-index] and it will appear
