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.
lilian Says:
Hello Ewdison
At present moment I am trying to install miniBB onto the wordpress. I tried once but it didn’t work and that is ok since i am not a php genius but just a simple one who wants to do it. i tried the way that is explained in the minibb wordpress integration readme file but unfortunately it doesn’t go well. so my first question is whether you use wordpress 2.5 still and how did you go wiht the passwords since it shows to have installed minibb but doesn’t want to login saying that the login name is different than indicated or something like this. can you please give me some hints :))
Posted on October 27th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
andrew chen Says:
What’s up Ewdison, I like Slashgear. I am curious why you decided to use WordPress on your personal blog instead of what powers Slashgear. Slashgear is running Joomla I presume? Either way, I like the simplistic layout look.
Posted on November 11th, 2008 at 11:52 pm
Ewdison Then Says:
Thanks for the compliment Andrew. SlashGear is also fully powered by WordPress, we never used joomla.
Posted on November 12th, 2008 at 8:32 am
Stanislas Says:
Subject to-date, but you need to update links do not work.
Posted on June 30th, 2011 at 5:38 am