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 members search through every BuddyPress component, along with pages and posts and custom post types of your choice, all in one unified search bar with a live dropdown of results.
Just activate the plugin, and every WordPress search input will instantly search your entire BuddyPress site, returning the results in a native tabbed interface right on your default Search Results template, automatically styled by BuddyPress to fit with your theme.
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BuddyPress Global Search

Very nice. The Ajax search works. But, when I click on all results, it breaks my search results page. It must be the way my theme is set up. To be fair, this could be a rare problem that only a few people will experience. 

Neat, doesn't work

The plugin works great and does exactly what it says. 
I really appreciate that support agreed to my request of adding an apply_filter to their code that enables us to implement a customization we needed, thank you so much for that!

Great plugin & support

BuddyPress Global Search allows for a global, unified search of all BuddyPress components, with a live dropdown as you type.

Dashboard Forum Activity vs BuddyPress Global Search