If you have not heard of miniBB, it’s a very lightweight forum web application - we use it on SlashGear discussion forums. Prior to WordPress 2.5, miniBB integration to WordPress was fairly straightforward and easy. Wordpress 2.5 introduces new password hashes, phpass and it breaks many 3rd party application integration, including miniBB. While you can revert back to MD5 Password hashes, it seems futile as the new password hashes was in place to keep WordPress more secure.

So I contacted my good friend Paul from miniBB to help me get a new integration working for SlashGear Forum and within days, he found a solution – by including most of WordPress libraries and header, Paul managed to get miniBB synced with WordPress. All WordPress hook and functions are also available to miniBB which takes the integration to a while different level. If you are using WP-CACHE, you will need to exclude the forum’s URI so it will not be cached.

miniBB integration does not copy user database to another table, it uses WordPress user table and fields. So it’s a true integration rather than duplication/syncing of user table integration. Give it a spin, you might like it and Paul is a great guy to work with when you need support.