Would anyone perhaps know how I might display a small snippet of the most recent post in a forum under that forum’s title on the front page? So, my front page might look like:

My Forum

Here is a bit of text from the most recent post in this forum

Another of my Forums

And here is some text from this forum’s most recent post

Etc, etc.

[@chrishajer Participant 17 years ago]

How about this as a starting point?

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/excerpts?replies=14#post-12656

[@clicknathan Participant 17 years ago]

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.

[@clicknathan Participant 17 years ago]

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.

[@chrishajer Participant 17 years ago]

Now that you mention it, I think search returns just a snippet of results, not the full post. Maybe look at how that’s done?