wordpress dashboard showing No activity yet!

1. Here's how I got to show custom post types in the dashboard activity widget.
   

   • Copied & pasted the function wp_dashboard_recent_posts (from wp-admin/includes/dashboard.php)
   • Changed it slightly to pass post_type in the argument
   • Replaced the activity widget with one that calls the new function

   The following can be put in functions.php or a plugin.
   

   /**
    *
    * Show custom post types in dashboard activity widget
    *
    */
   
   // unregister the default activity widget
   add_action('wp_dashboard_setup', 'remove_dashboard_widgets' );
   function remove_dashboard_widgets() {
   
       global $wp_meta_boxes;
       unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['normal']['core']['dashboard_activity']);
   
   }
   
   // register your custom activity widget
   add_action('wp_dashboard_setup', 'add_custom_dashboard_activity' );
   function add_custom_dashboard_activity() {
       wp_add_dashboard_widget('custom_dashboard_activity', 'Activities', 'custom_wp_dashboard_site_activity');
   }
   
   // the new function based on wp_dashboard_recent_posts (in wp-admin/includes/dashboard.php)
   function wp_dashboard_recent_post_types( $args ) {
   
   /* Chenged from here */
   
    if ( ! $args['post_type'] ) {
     $args['post_type'] = 'any';
    }
   
    $query_args = array(
     'post_type'      => $args['post_type'],
   
   /* to here */
   
     'post_status'    => $args['status'],
     'orderby'        => 'date',
     'order'          => $args['order'],
     'posts_per_page' => intval( $args['max'] ),
     'no_found_rows'  => true,
     'cache_results'  => false
    );
    $posts = new WP_Query( $query_args );
   
    if ( $posts->have_posts() ) {
   
     echo '<div id="' . $args['id'] . '" class="activity-block">';
   
     if ( $posts->post_count > $args['display'] ) {
      echo '<small class="show-more hide-if-no-js"><a href="#">' . sprintf( __( 'See %s more…'), $posts->post_count - intval( $args['display'] ) ) . '</a></small>';
     }
   
     echo '<h4>' . $args['title'] . '</h4>';
   
     echo '<ul>';
   
     $i = 0;
     $today    = date( 'Y-m-d', current_time( 'timestamp' ) );
     $tomorrow = date( 'Y-m-d', strtotime( '+1 day', current_time( 'timestamp' ) ) );
   
     while ( $posts->have_posts() ) {
      $posts->the_post();
   
      $time = get_the_time( 'U' );
      if ( date( 'Y-m-d', $time ) == $today ) {
       $relative = __( 'Today' );
      } elseif ( date( 'Y-m-d', $time ) == $tomorrow ) {
       $relative = __( 'Tomorrow' );
      } else {
       /* translators: date and time format for recent posts on the dashboard, see http://php.net/date */
       $relative = date_i18n( __( 'M jS' ), $time );
      }
   
       $text = sprintf(
       /* translators: 1: relative date, 2: time, 4: post title */
        __( '<span>%1$s, %2$s</span> <a href="%3$s">%4$s</a>' ),
         $relative,
         get_the_time(),
         get_edit_post_link(),
         _draft_or_post_title()
        );
   
       $hidden = $i >= $args['display'] ? ' class="hidden"' : '';
       echo "<li{$hidden}>$text</li>";
      $i++;
     }
   
     echo '</ul>';
     echo '</div>';
   
    } else {
     return false;
    }
   
    wp_reset_postdata();
   
    return true;
   }
   
   // The replacement widget
   function custom_wp_dashboard_site_activity() {
   
       echo '<div id="activity-widget">';
   
       $future_posts = wp_dashboard_recent_post_types( array(
           'post_type'  => 'any',
           'display' => 3,
           'max'     => 7,
           'status'  => 'future',
           'order'   => 'ASC',
           'title'   => __( 'Publishing Soon' ),
           'id'      => 'future-posts',
       ) );
   
       $recent_posts = wp_dashboard_recent_post_types( array(
           'post_type'  => 'any',
           'display' => 3,
           'max'     => 7,
           'status'  => 'publish',
           'order'   => 'DESC',
           'title'   => __( 'Recently Published' ),
           'id'      => 'published-posts',
       ) );
   
       $recent_comments = wp_dashboard_recent_comments( 10 );
   
       if ( !$future_posts && !$recent_posts && !$recent_comments ) {
           echo '<div class="no-activity">';
           echo '<p class="smiley"></p>';
           echo '<p>' . __( 'No activity yet!' ) . '</p>';
           echo '</div>';
       }
   
       echo '</div>';
   }

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   OK your code is working perfectly and what I did is that I changed the
   
   $args['post_type'] = array ('type_1','type_2','type_3','type_4','type_5')
   
   and all the following 'post_type'  => array( as above )
   
   so different post types are presented.
   
   thanks for sharing! 

   https://wordpress.org/support/topic/show-custom-post-types-in-dashboard-activity-widget