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hi guys,
I’m creating a forum called ‘Impact the World’ – and people will write a post in there every time they impact someone’s life, no matter how small.

I’d like to have a widget in the right hand column (or somewhere) that displays a graph showing the total posts by that user, and total posts across all users – so we can measure the IMPACT we are making on the world.

1) What’s the php code to count total posts in a particular forum?

2) How can I display total current user posts, total all user posts, and user name of the TOP POSTER, in some kind of widget?

(Sorry I’m a php and buddypress noob!)

David