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@rda5009

Or how would I go about adding the reference lookup to obtain the user’s bp group(s), the forum tied to that bp group(s), and then display the recent 5-10 topics?

If you are really not that good with code, try to hire a developer to create this for you.

Here is a couple of links that might be helpful though.

http://hookr.io/plugins/buddypress/#index=g&search=bp_get_group

http://hookr.io/plugins/buddypress/#index=i&search=bp_is

https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/is_user_logged_in/

https://github.com/ntwb/bbPress/blob/master/src/includes/common/widgets.php#L674