Is there a way to show a snippet of the post (limit 200 characters) under the topic title on the front page? I tried putting in “<?php post_text(); ?>” but nothing showed up. Any ideas?

[GautamMember @gautam2011 3 years, 10 months ago]

Create a functions.php file in your theme folder, and write this in it:

<?php

function get_post_teaser($chars = 200){

global $bbdb;

$topic_id_ft = get_topic_id(); //topic id for getting text of first post of the topic

$first_post = (int) $bbdb->get_var("SELECT post_id FROM $bbdb->posts WHERE topic_id = $topic_id_ft ORDER BY post_id ASC LIMIT 1");

$content = substr(strip_tags(strip_shortcodes(get_post_text($first_post))),0, $chars); //gets the first 200 chars of the post

return $content;

}

?>

Then at the front page, put this where you need to display the post text (it should be inside the loop):

<?php echo get_post_teaser(200); ?>

You can change that 200 to anything, any number of letters you want. Default is 200.

I think, this should work.

[blahMember @crackpixels 3 years, 10 months ago]

Thank you that worked!