[Nola1974]

Unlike WP, topic meta is accessed throught the topic object.

update_topicmeta( 5, 'my_meta', 'yay' );

$topic = get_topic( 5 );

echo $topic->my_meta; // outputs: yay

Um. What? I see this isn’t going to be a fun forum system to customise if you’re not a PHP programmer. I have NO IDEA what the above means. (I dont mean that as a slam, just a declaration that I’m in over my head at this point.)