I am considering buddypress for a community project of mine, but I will be using IPB 3 as core for discussions (for many reasons…) and I wonder how much WPMU/BP differ from WP in terms of integration?

In WP you can set most of the database fields in /wp-includes/pluggable.php and then tell WP which database to pull these from. Is that possible with WPMU/BP?

[@mortfiles Participant 15 years, 6 months ago]

I mean to use

define(‘CUSTOM_USER_TABLE’, $table_prefix.’my_users’);

define(‘CUSTOM_USER_META_TABLE’, $table_prefix.’my_usermeta’);

to alter the database to use the IPB usertables….

from: https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php

[@trekkieandrea Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

Hi, I want to integrate IPB 3 with wordpress too. My thing may be a bit different though. What I want to do is instead of using bbpress for the group forums, I would love for it to use ipb 3 instead. Is there any way of supporting ipb with buddypress? I have been looking for a while a way to do that.

[@rohan_kapoor Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

@Trekkiemelissa: At this point, it’s impossible to do. You would have to hard code it in with another plugin or modify the core files.