Hoping someone can help — group creation is completely broken on my site and I can’t figure out why. The theme i’m using says its a buddypress issue and I need to contact here.

Setup: WordPress + BuddyPress 14.5.2, Youzify 3.6.1 (which replaces BP’s own group-creation templates and JS), Template Pack set to BP Nouveau, LiteSpeed Cache active. I’m logged in as an administrator, and “Enable group creation for all users” is turned on (though admins should be able to create groups regardless of that setting).

Symptom: On /groups/create/, filling in the Group Name + Description and clicking “Create Group and Continue” just reloads Step 1 blank. No error message, no validation warning anywhere on the page, and no group is ever created — I’ve confirmed 0 groups exist via both wp-admin > Groups and the REST API after every attempt.

What I’ve already ruled out:

The Groups component is active and creation permissions are wide open
No JavaScript console errors when submitting

Tried the REST API directly (POST /wp-json/buddypress/v1/groups) — first attempt returned a bp_rest_user_cannot_create_group 500 error, later attempts just failed generically

Submitted the raw Step 1 form via fetch(), bypassing the UI entirely, using the exact fields from the page (group-name, group-desc, _wpnonce, _wp_http_referer, save, group_id). The server responds 200 and redirects back to the same Step 1 URL — no PHP warnings, notices, or BuddyPress error markup anywhere in the returned HTML

Checked cookies before and after submitting: BuddyPress normally sets a cookie to track which group you’re mid-way through creating across the multi-step wizard. That cookie never gets set, which suggests groups_create_group() isn’t completing (or isn’t being reached) server-side

I don’t have server-level file access, so I can’t check the PHP error log directly (/wp-content/debug.log returns a 403 for me)

My best guess is a Youzify/BuddyPress-core compatibility issue, since Youzify fully overrides the group-creation flow — but I’ve already been through Youzify support without a resolution, which is why I’m here.

Happy to give login info.

Thanks!