[Plugin: Relevanssi – A Better Search] Search bbpress?

Yes. BBPress stores forum data in a custom post type, which Relevanssi can index.

sweet .. thanks .. i’ll try it out!

works great .. for other folks wanting to do this i had to add this code to my theme’s functions.php file to include bbpress custom post types in the search index:

function my_add_bbp_to_search( $post_type ) {
     $post_type['exclude_from_search'] = false;

     return $post_type;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_register_forum_post_type', 'my_add_bbp_to_search' );
add_filter( 'bbp_register_topic_post_type', 'my_add_bbp_to_search' );
add_filter( 'bbp_register_reply_post_type', 'my_add_bbp_to_search' );

Notice that Relevanssi has a setting you can adjust, whether it respects “exclude_from_search” or not. This is a pretty neat solution, too.