Ryan Imel

I use the Recent Comments Dashboard widget every single day. It’s the first way I check up on recent activity on my sites. Now that I’ve started using bbPress to power a forum on my site I would like the same bird’s eye view of it too.
This plugin adds a widget to your WordPress Dashboard that pulls in recent activity from your bbPress-driven forum. It will pull in recent topics and replies. The bbPress plugin is required.
The widget displays all new topics and replies, with the ability to either open the post to edit it or to view it on the front end of the site. Currently only admins (or more specifically, those with the <code>manage_options</code> capability) will see the widget.
The plugin roadmap looks like this:
<ul>
<li>Add the basic hover over actions that the Recent Comments widget has (Edit, Spam, Trash).</li>
<li>Add ability to reply to topics and replies, same as the Recent Comments widget.</li>
</ul>

Dashboard Forum Activity

Quickly review your bbPress forum activity using a widget on your WordPress Dashboard.

BuddyBoss

Let your BuddyPress members edit their activity posts and replies on the front-end of the site. You can even set a time limit for how long activity posts should remain editable.
Just activate the plugin, and every activity post and reply will become editable, styled automatically by BuddyPress to fit with your theme.

BuddyPress Edit Activity

BuddyPress Edit Activity allows your members to edit their activity posts on the front-end of your BuddyPress-powered site.

Dashboard Forum Activity vs BuddyPress Edit Activity