Anyone else? I’m looking for something a bit more automatic.
I apologize, please strike that post from the record and put me down as major doofus. I had hidden them via CSS.
Seriously…I should take a pay cut.
Yes, it was the MCBS problem, _ck_.
Great news on the RC1 release!
Thanks for that info, _ck_.
FYI, I recently had to use .9.0.3 to get around the PHP5 issue with .9.0.4, as an example of why someone would use an older version.
So here’s what I found, though I wasn’t personally able to get it to work myself, I’m almost positive that someone with a bit more PHP knowledge would have been able to:
This plugin: https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/forum-last-poster/#post-1538
+ _ck_’s advice in this post: https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/forum-last-poster/#post-1546
He details how, using substr, you can truncate the amount of words being pulled from the any piece of content. Theoretically you could use:
post_text(forum_last_topic_id());
But with the truncation method he mentions. I, unfortunately, just don’t know how. 
Thanks everyone, I’m going to try out the first plugin Chris recommended and I’ll let the thread know if that’s the ticket.
That’s a great start, Chris – however it basically drops an entire list of recents with excerpts, and I was hoping to have the excerpt for each group listed after that group.
I’m quite the novice when it comes to PHP, but perhaps I can figure out how to mod this.
My fault, the problem is that I’m a big dumb idiot. 
I had an if statement that wasn’t being closed at the right spot. Thanks for your help chris!
The error was from a Private Messaging plugin (note: not a private forums plugin).
I have the default Akismet & Bozo plugins installed, and also the “Use Display Name” (which just changes your username to your nicename) and BBPrivate Messaging Plugin (as mentioned above) plugins installed. Removing them does not allow me to see the forums content either.
I just noticed that actually only admins can see the forum content.
You asked:
You didn’t make all your forums categories in the admin, did you?
I’m not sure what you mean, I’m new to BBPress. I converted an old WordPress XDForum plugin to BBPress, so perhaps something happened with permissions there, but even so, any direction as to how to open these up to everyone would be great!
