Kanban

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A Kanban layout shows the View’s rows as cards in columns. With a post type source each column is a term of a taxonomy, and moving a card to another column gives the post that term. Choose Kanban as the layout’s Type; the sections below follow the layout’s Data section, which Data Filtering describes. A board loads every row its filters match, 500 at a time.

Columns

Taxonomy: "The terms of this taxonomy will be used for the board categories." Each term becomes a column. With any other source this field lists the source’s columns instead, and each value of the chosen column becomes a board column.
Allow sorting lets people drag cards within a column and between columns. Without it the cards stay where they are.
Show add button adds an add button to every column, which creates a post in that column: published when the user may publish posts of the post type and pending review otherwise. Add button text sets its label; when it is empty the button reads Add post.
Show uncategorized column adds a first column for posts without a term in the taxonomy. Moving a card there removes its term.

Below these, each term of the taxonomy has an entry you can drag to reorder the board’s columns. Each has a Color and, while the board-wide add button is off, its own Show add button and Add button text.

With a source other than a post type, only Taxonomy remains: the board is read-only.

Cards

Taxonomy: "The terms of this taxonomy will be used for the card categories." A card shows its post’s term in this taxonomy as a label, and the add and edit forms offer it as Category.
Show view button shows a button on each card that opens the item without changing it.
Show edit button shows a button on each card that opens the item for editing: its Title, Content and Category.
Show upvotes shows an upvote button and count on each card. Cards with more upvotes sort first in their column.

Only Taxonomy and Show view button apply to other sources.

Filter

Show search adds a search field that searches the cards’ titles, content and categories on the board.

Comments

For post type sources:

Show comments shows each card’s comment count and its comments.
Allow comments lets logged-in users add comments and edit their own. It needs comments to be open in Settings > Discussion and on the post. Replies nest when Settings > Discussion enables threaded comments, to the depth set there.

How changes are saved

Every change is saved to the post at once and checked against the user’s permissions for it:

Moving a card replaces the post’s terms in the board’s taxonomy with the column’s term, which needs permission to edit the post and to assign terms of that taxonomy.
A card’s position is saved as the order of the column’s term, so every board grouped by the same taxonomy shows the same order.
A card added with an add button is a new post at the end of its column, with the status Show add button describes. It is created only for users who may create posts of that type and assign terms of the board’s taxonomy.

Conditions and delete

The layout’s Conditions decide who sees its tab, and each switch above can carry its own conditions once it is on; see Conditions. Delete layout removes the layout when you save the View.