Hey Matt,
I’m sorry if you feel like I previously left a mess but my goal is to show that the issue is with your BuddyPress setup alone. Our theme is not the cause of the issue, moreover, it does not have the capability to mess up permalinks of other plugins like this BuddyPress issue.
I should not have deactivated the plugins though as the theme switch test and previous permalink reset test were enough to show that the issue is with BuddyPress setup alone. I just did it anyway in hopes that it will fix the issue that time. I’m sorry about this.
Try “hard” resetting your htaccess file by renaming it to .htaccess-bak
. Then in WP Admin Menu, go to Settings > Permalinks and just click the Save Changes button so WordPress will generate the default htaccess.
If that does not help, we’re sorry but you really need to bring this up with BuddyPress support. You might have configured something that caused this issue. It’s probably something that could modify the htaccess file.
I’m sorry if we said that we’ll investigate further until the BuddyPress issue is resolved. Ruenel might have been confused.
Thanks.