General Settings

The plugin’s admin screen is at WB Plugins > Edit Activity. It has four tabs: Overview, General Settings, FAQ, and License.

General Settings tab

Enable activity editing

Option name (database): _bp_enable_edit_option

Toggle this on to show the Edit button on activity posts and comments. When off, no Edit buttons appear anywhere and the feature is completely dormant.

Default: off (0).

Edit window

Option name (database): _bp_edit_activity_duration

Controls how long after the original post date a member can still edit. Once the window passes, the Edit button disappears for that post.

Value	Duration
forever	No time limit
30_days	30 days
7_day	7 days
1_day	24 hours
1_hour	60 minutes
10_minutes	10 minutes

Default: forever.

Note about administrators: Administrators are never subject to the edit window. They can edit any eligible post at any time while the feature is enabled.

Saving

Click Save Settings at the bottom of the General Settings tab. The page reloads on the same tab and shows a “Settings saved.” confirmation.

The save handler updates only these two options. It does not touch the wider BuddyPress settings group, so unrelated BuddyPress options are never affected.

Overview tab

The Overview tab is the default landing page. It summarizes your current configuration:

• Whether activity editing is On or Off.
• The current edit window.
• Whether the BuddyPress Activity component is Active.

If activity editing is off, or the Activity component is inactive, a warning banner appears with a link to fix it. Editing cannot work without the Activity component.

The same options in BuddyPress settings

The same two options are also registered on the BuddyPress settings screen, in the Activity Settings section, under the “Enable Edit Option” field. Changes saved there and on the plugin’s General Settings tab write to the same database options, so both surfaces stay in sync. The BuddyPress field is only registered while the Activity component is active.

On BuddyBoss Platform, the edit window is read from BuddyBoss’s own _bp_activity_edit_time option instead of _bp_edit_activity_duration, so the time limit stays consistent with BuddyBoss.