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Ok, I have this working! For anyone else struggling with this, these are the steps I took:

1. I created a custom registration form ( I needed more than one form for my setup) using the tutorial from Brajesh Singh http://buddydev.com/buddypress/show-buddypress-user-registration-form-everywhere-buddypress-site/

2. I added a hidden input field to my form:

<input type="hidden" name="user_type" id="user_type" value="your_role" />

3. I added a user_meta during the registration to store the role for later use during the activation process:

function store_user_role($user_id) {
    $user_type = $_POST['user_type'];
    $user_role = $user_type;
    switch($user_role) {
        case "your_role":
            add_user_meta( $user_id, '_member_role', 'yourrole');
            break;
        case "my_role":
            add_user_meta( $user_id, '_member_role', 'myrole');
            break;
	default:
            add_user_meta( $user_id, '_member_role', 'defaultrole');
    }
}
add_action( 'bp_core_signup_user', 'store_user_role', 20, 1);

4. Then during the activation process you check to see which user role is stored in the user_meta, and assign that as the actual WP user role:

add_action('bp_core_activated_user', 'bp_custom_registration_role',10 , 3);
function bp_custom_registration_role($user_id, $key, $user) {
   $userdata = array();
   $userdata['ID'] = $user_id;
   $key = '_member_role';
   $single = 'true';
   $userRole = get_user_meta( $user_id, $key, $single );
   
   if ($userRole == 'yourrole') 
      $userdata['role'] = 'yourrole';
   
   if ($userRole == 'myrole') 
      $userdata['role'] = 'myrole';

   if (($userdata['role'] == "yourrole") or ($userdata['role'] == "myrole"))
      wp_update_user($userdata);
   
  }

That’s it. I used a few different examples from these support forums so credit goes out to those who got this stuff working in the first place. Hope this helps someone else.

im desperate here … will i lose something if i deactivate buddypress and unintall it and install it again ?

but isnt it possible for you to see what entrance in css file there could be mess up its up when it is errors im getting only with buddypress ? After this was installed ? my site havent got these load and error without buddypress

Hi danbp,
I can not find a setting to allow explicit @mention. I allowed the activity stream in buddypress. And @mentions are working fine in there.
The notifications if someone is mentioned in the bbpress forums are working fine, too. I even have a dropdown field with suggestions for @mention in bbpress.

The only thing is the missing link to the profile behind the @mention in replies…
forums and buddypress sites are exluded from caching…

Thanks
Matthias

@rosyteddy a couple of good reads there man, i like to read through the comment sections on articles like the ones above because there is some good points raised, there are alot of varied opinions as how to effectively pull this off dependent on the complexity of your site, which i would consider mine as quite complex, the reason for the questions and advice is because of how complex i consider the website to be, i have alot of stylesheets for various different things here there and everywhere loading when not needed etc, in the past i have used plugins to successfully combine and serve them as one cached minified version etc.. but i was just wanting to go more in depth with it and configure it all myself to run at an optimum level.

I am going to be messing around with this over the next few days and will get back to you on what i feel was the best way to do it, any more advice off anyone else who has tackled doing this manually for wordpress/buddypress give us a shout.

I tried that plugin but my plugin setup is far to complex for it to work without breaking ALOT of things on my site, it wouldn’t be worth all the troubleshooting with these other plugins (as i suspected), the website is very ambitious and i have a set amount of plugins i need running to achieve it, removing features is not an option, the main thing im concentrating on is performance with all of the plugins active (which is alot more than the average site so hence the problems) and im trying to combine all my js files in the most efficient way i can without again breaking functionality , i don’t really need all the website to be ajaxed as such it is more a case of just the buddypress tabs on the profile areas that is the issue really

What is used here is a custom function.

Hi @danbp and @ all other readers,
do you know more about this custom function used in the buddypress forum?

Just to get a link to the profile, if a user is mentioned ( @username ) in a topic…
Thanks
Matthias