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.

Danny van Kooten

ibericode

Harish Chouhan

This plugin shows your Mailchimp lists activity, right in your WordPress dashboard.
<h4>Mailchimp lists activity</h4>
Once activated, it will show a new dashboard widget containing a bar-graph or line-graph (<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/mc4wp-activity/screenshots/">screenshots</a>) showing day-to-day changes to your Mailchimp lists. You can choose to view relative activity (daily subscribes vs. unsubscribes) or a line graph visualizing your total list sizes.
Requirements
This plugin has the following requirements.
<ul>
<li>The <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/mailchimp-for-wp/">Mailchimp for WordPress</a> plugin (3.0 or higher).</li>
<li>PHP 5.3 or higher.</li>
</ul>
To get started with the plugin, please have a look at the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/mc4wp-activity/installation/">installation guide</a>.

MC4WP: Mailchimp Activity

Disclaimer: I'm the plugin author.
We've been using this plugin internally for quite a few months now to show MailChimp list sizes right in our WordPress dashboard so we didn't have to log into our MailChimp account every now and then to monitor list related activity. 
So yes, we use it on a daily basis and love it. Now we decided to share it with you, for free. :)



Handy for a quick overview of MailChimp list activity.

Very handy executive summary of your Mailchimp list anayltics right in the dashboard. Thanks!



Featured on iThemes Training Plugin Roundup, March 2016

Shows activity for your Mailchimp lists, right in your WordPress dashboard.

Dashboard Forum Activity vs MC4WP: Mailchimp Activity