ah.. found it page_topics under bb_meta
Nope, Kawauso.
<?php bb_get_profile_link(post_author()); ?>
just renders the poster name, without any link.
Ah ok, yah mini-stats is a great dashboard plugin which lets you know how many users you have… how many posts and topics they’re creating… and other key metrics like that.
I check it almost every day, and couldn’t run my sites without it… I find it to be one of the most useful plugins out there, if you’re managing a site for growth. 
If you’re unsure of what PHPINFO is, put this into a file called info.php on your web server, then access it with a browser at http://www.example.com/info.php and paste the info somewhere where we can see it.
<?php
phpinfo();
?>
I think you first need to determine how long bbPress is actually taking to generate a page, and how long it takes to generate the other pages on the site. You can start with _ck_’s mini-stats plugin for bbPress.
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/mini-stats/
[edit: see johnhiler’s link below to the bb-benchmark plugin]
And, on the other part of your site, what is running that? Is it WordPress or just static HTML? If it’s WordPress, you can get a plugin as well to point out performance bottlenecks.
Regardless of what type of software a site (your site) is running, there are lots of tools you can run in your browser to find performance bottlenecks.
Firefox (you need that to run most of these add-ons)
Firebug (all around awesome tool)
Y Slow from Yahoo!
Google Page Speed
There are tons and tons of performance add-ons for Firefox but these will get the job done.
Also, what host are you on, and can you post the URL here so others may see the performance first hand?
Thank you Kawauso! This works perfectly! Problem solved 
Any chance bbPress will get a codex proper then?
In your theme’s topic.php, change bb_topic_admin(); to bb_topic_admin( array( 'before' => '', 'after' => '' ) ); or to use <li> instead, put bb_topic_admin( array( 'before' => '<li>', 'after' => '</li>' ) ); and put <ul> and </ul> around the <?php tags
$wpdb and $bbdb have nice sanitizing functions and caching of results if I remember correctly
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wpdb_Class
They can also be used to retrieve table names for the respective package
You can also explicitly set the link text like this as well, by coding the full anchor link:
GO TO GOOGLE
To achieve that, I typed this:
<a href="http://google.com/">GO TO GOOGLE</a>
QuickD – if you type a URL, bbPress automatically converts that to a clickable link. I will type just www.google.com and below it will be a link to google with the text http://www.google.com
http://www.google.com
It’s actually harder to have bbPress NOT make links out of URLs.
You shouldn’t need the separate <a> tag, that function should be returning a complete <a> tag with the text passed to it (or using the ID number if one is given)
Yes, this seems to do the trick
<a href="http://www.example.com/forum/profile/<?php bb_get_profile_link(post_author()); ?>">
<?php bb_get_profile_link(post_author()); ?>
</a>
Hardcoding the path is not nice, but at least it works.
Thank you!
So, if I now understand right, I cannot use any piece of it.
Would it really be that hard to get the poster name and link it to his/her profile page, quite simply?
I cannot find how.
It’s generated by the template logged-in.php, which in Kakumei looks like:
<p class="login">
<?php printf(__('Welcome, %1$s'), bb_get_profile_link(bb_get_current_user_info( 'name' )));?>
<?php bb_admin_link( 'before= | ' );?>
| <?php bb_logout_link(); ?>
</p>
So you’d want bb_get_profile_link(bb_get_current_user_info( 'name' ))
Yet something is wrong. It does not work.
Link should most probably look like
http://www.example.com/forum/profile/user
The right code is probably hidden in the header, where it says
Welcome, User | Log Out
That User link is the one I’m after, but cannot find out how it is built.
<a href="profile.php?id=<?php echo get_post_author_id(); ?>"><?php post_author();?></a>
So in post.php there is this code
<p>
<strong><?php post_author_link(); ?></strong><br />
<small><?php post_author_title_link(); ?></small>
</p>
which should be changed into…?
The point is that just dropping the post_author_title_link(); wouldn’t do.
I need to first have the author display name link to his/her profile page.
But I have no clue…
Replace the code from the default theme in your code and then try.
