Thank you so much, really useful!

Oh this is going to be very helpful.

how can I get the first post's title of a thread?

how can i use it in templates ? please

I wanted to use some of the site statistic variables in a side column but I noticed that some don't show up on the showthread page. Any idea how to get them to show up?

How can I show the user(s) rank? Using the $bbuserinfo one?

$post[rank] inside the postbit.
$bbuserinfo[rank] outside the postbit.

Neither of them worked for me, but thanks for trying to help.

How and where did you implement them?

Is there a tutorial or easy way to learn how to use these and design with them, as in pulling certain elements up to the front page? Seems very powerful!!!