[chrishajer]

> I’m sorry mate but deep integration doesn’t slow anything down.

I think there would be many here who disagree with you. What sort of empirical evidence do you have that it does NOT slow anything down? Loading all of WordPress has to take some amount of time.

https://bbpress.org/documentation/integration-with-wordpress/#func

Doing this will add quite a lot of weight to your bbPress installation as it will cause WordPress to load in it’s entirety. Your best option is to try to emulate the functionality you require inside a bbPress plugin.

Tony did this the right way to get the functionality he needed.