Integrate website and forum (registration/login)

[hireshi]

Anyone have any experience with this? The forum I am using is IPB, website is a highly customized Wordpress. But still, a wordpress.

My plan is so that if someone registers on the main website, or the forum, a profile will automatically be created on the other side. So two places, one account, so per say.

I was considering using ipbwi, but it is ugly, and way to expensive at 250 euros. I'm not a big fan of paying for anything, especially something as bad as that.

I have seen many websites with this system, and I know most of them don't use the ipbwi program, as that forces your profiles to become ugly, so it leaves an infamous mark that way.

[Kingfish]

Could you not do away with internal registration on both sites and instead on both sites accept 'login with Facebook/google/etc'?

[hireshi]

Never tried the last thing you mentioned. Does it make a difference for registration and the privileges the users get?
Because what I am actually looking for is a single profile that you get from registering, so that they don't have to register twice.

The normal member system that comes with wordpress isn't much to brag about.