ah! I went to trackdown what I added, and realized I was calling the author ID, which is evidently wrong… but this allowed me to get the profile of the logged in user:
<a href="<?php global $userdata;
get_currentuserinfo();
echo('http://intercontinentalcry.mahost.org/discussions/profile.php?id=' . $userdata->ID . '');
?>">Your Profile</a></li>
Thanks trent! You may have only said five words, but they led me to the solution I was looking for – Ahni
Hmm, I don’t think any bbpress functions are loaded when your WP is loaded is it? If not, then you’ll have to build the link from scratch. Link building in bbpress is one of those things you just gotta figure out from doing it a few times (and staring at core code).
Since you’re doing it specifically for your forums, it doesn’t necessarily have to be in plugin form (which is preferable for me since I never made WP plugins). So I would do something like this:
Look at the code used to get the logged in user’s name.
Get the ID of that user anyway you can (you can search the db for the username or use a wp function that I don’t know about).
Start the link formation like $link = “http://zenhelix.us.to/forums/profile/”
Then you can either add the user ID directly to the end using a regular expression ( add a .$userid to the end of the previous line) or just do $link += $userid;
Setup the link with the a href and all that junk.
I wish I could give you more specific code, but like I said, I’ve never done much WP coding.
I didn’t know jack about much of this stuff 2 months ago. I had programmed before, but nothing super special (I did an RSS parser for me and my friends’ main webpage, rayd.org). I just kinda got ambitious with this stuff.
Everything you need to know to do this stuff is in the core code (I’ve pulled so many stylistic and methodological things from preexisting code) and php.net. The only thing you need beyond that is ambition. Mine pretty much peeked when I did Private Messages. I can’t think of another project that will require that much work (though I’m sure there are, I just can’t think of any for now). 
I never get annoyed
I’ve been so busy at work I haven’t had a chance to update my PM plugin yet. It’s still next on my docket. I’ll add your request to my list of things to do.
Last time I sat down to work on it, I was having trouble adding a user search feature… so there’s still that 
Will do, I check artentfrost’s forums about every day for a new plugin I think he might get annoyed with my constant requesting and never posting anything else…
BTW, good work on those plugins artentfrost
Since the paths of where to pull the information for the PM plugin are hardcoded for bbPress installs, I don’t know if it is possible. Maybe drop a line to Ardentfrost at:
http://www.rayd.org/forums/topic/44
Trent
$first_post = $bbdb->get_results("SELECT * FROM $bbdb->posts WHERE topic_id = $topic->topic_id AND post_position = 1");
That will give you the post OBJECT… from there you can pull out the text like this:
echo $first_post->post_text;
Or since it seems you want to pull out just the first little bit, just use a php string function to make it look and act like you want it to.
It’s not the most eloquent method, but it’s certainly simple.
My bbpress forum is now averaging one registration spam per day – where a user registers, adds their pills or porn site details to the website field, then never visits again.
Check your registrations guys ‘n’ gals, you may find you have a lot of unwanted members (*cough*) linked from your sites.
I’m thinking it’s time registration requests went through Akismet – but for this to happen there would have to be a UI for spotting false positives.
See also: Links to bozos and blocked users.
This means that we translators will soon have a branch for our locale also as in wp ?
Thanks pontus. I might try this then. However, I’m not one for core edits really, but I might give it a go, unless of course Josh comes up with something soon!? 
*cough* I really would like to see this, maybe, implemented in the .80 version.. *cough* lol..
spencerp
Maybe add
<php header("Location: path/to/your/page"); ?>
to the top of your bbpress registration template?
Just a thought.
I am working on a danish Wii-portal site, and I have chosen to use bbPress/WP to do the job.
The site is not officially launched yet, but is available at wiinyt.dk/secret/. Check out the bbPress at wiinyt.dk/secret/forum/.
Browsing the site on the Wii scales everything up to fit the television perfectly
Major changes like….. ?????? PLZZZ tell
Is it possibly related to cookies and the domains they come from?
This problem can sometimes be caused by
disabling or refusing to accept cookies
My error was with Firefox 1.5.0.7 on Linux. Maybe it’s just coincidental it went away when the scripts were parsed by PHP5.
They will not offer to support .htaccess, but that’s OK as long as they let you use it.
Put that .htaccess (make sure it starts with a period) in your forum root, with the line:
AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
in it.
Then, make sure it’s working. Create a file called phpinfo.php in your forum root. Put this into it:
<?php
phpinfo();
?>
Then, access that URL http://www.yoursite.com/forum/phpinfo.php. The resultant page will have the PHP version at the top. You want to see PHP5.x.x there, not PHP4.x.x. Try it both with and without the .htaccess to see if it changes. If it’s already parsing php files as PHP5, then we have to dig into what’s not working. If php files are still being parsed as PHP4, the we need to figure out if the htaccess is working or not, or in the wrong location or something.
There is an error in /bb-includes/template-functions.php file .
In that file find
($smallest + ($count/$fontstep)."$unit;'>$tag n";
and replace it with:
($smallest + (($count-min($counts))/$fontstep))."$unit;'>$tag n";
guys, any other suggestion? 
I’m working on the spanish translation and I’m having a problem.
syntax error, unexpected $end in /…/bb-includes/gettext.php(307) : eval()’d code on line 1
The error really comes from this line of code:
$posts = sprintf('%1$s %2$s', $post_num, __ngettext( 'post', 'posts', $post_num ));
And I guess it has something to do with the plurals (post and posts). I’ve generated the po file using poEdit.
Does anyone have an idea of how to solve this?
Adding this to the .htaccess in the forum root did it for me:
AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
Basically, you need PHP5 to prevent that redirect error. If your server has PHP5, then this will resolve the issue for you.
This problem was mentioned and resolved here before:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/354?replies=11#post-1748
What version of bbPress are you using?
Do you have a .htaccess file in bbPress’ bb-templates/ directory?
In bb_press 0.74 you need to change “init” to “bb_init” on line 48. Like this:
add_action(‘bb_init’, ‘online_update’);
And then it works again.
Man, looks like I’ll have to move to some better forum software in the year 6354 then 
Same thing happened to me in one of mine. I was using get_header instead of bb_get_header. Silly mistakes are the worst when you need help finding them
Try
$topics = bb_top_topics();
as your first line.
