[Clicknathan]

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.