SleekView Charts for Co-Authors Plus
SleekView joins wp_term_relationships with the Co-Authors Plus author taxonomy and turns byline distribution, guest contributor activity, and per-author post volume into chart cards inside WP Admin.
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Bylines deserve a dashboard, not a CSV export
Co-Authors Plus turns WordPress authors into a real editorial system: guest profiles, multiple bylines per post, primary authors picked up by templates. The data is solid, the default reports are limited. The Authors screen lists guest profiles without usage counts; the Posts screen filters by single author at a time; quarterly reporting on contributor activity becomes a spreadsheet exercise.
SleekView Charts reads the same author taxonomy and term relationships the table view exposes and aggregates them into a dashboard. Posts per primary author as a Bar. Guest vs WordPress user breakdown as a Pie. Publication cadence over time as an Area. Co-author count distribution as a Bar. The editorial picture surfaces without exporting anything.
The same data drives editorial reporting, contributor offboarding, and guest-profile cleanup. Each role opens into the saved dashboard that matches their work, and the numbers stay live because the source is the byline assignments themselves.
Workflow
From author taxonomy to an editorial dashboard
Read the author taxonomy
Pick chart types per question
Filter by post type or status
Save per-role dashboards
Sample dashboard
Charts you can build from Co-Authors Plus data
Total bylines this year
Count
Posts per primary author
Count
group by primary_author
Guest vs WordPress user share
Count
group by profile_type
Publication cadence
Count
group by post_date
Comparison
Default Co-Authors Plus admin vs SleekView Charts
Default Co-Authors Plus admin
- Authors screen does not aggregate posts per author
- No chart breakdown of guest vs WordPress user contributions
- Publication cadence is not visualised inside WP Admin
- Co-author count distribution requires manual SQL
- Quarterly contributor reporting routes through CSV exports
SleekView Charts
- Per-author post volume as a Bar
- Guest vs WP profile share as a Pie
- Publication cadence as an Area
- Filter every card at once by post type or status
- Cards read live from the author taxonomy
Features
What SleekView Charts gives you for Co-Authors Plus
Author workload visibility
A horizontal Bar of posts per primary author exposes workload distribution at a glance. Heavy contributors and one-hit guest profiles sort to opposite ends of the chart for editorial planning.
Profile mix tracking
A Pie of guest vs WordPress user bylines surfaces the contributor program shape. Useful for measuring shifts in editorial strategy from staff-led to contributor-heavy or back.
Publication cadence trend
An Area chart of bylines over time exposes pacing. Editorial leads see whether the publication is hitting its weekly target, where seasonal lulls fall, and which campaigns drive the biggest spikes.
Audience
Who builds Co-Authors Plus charts dashboards with SleekView
Editorial leads
Per-author volume and publication cadence as the weekly editorial dashboard. Workload imbalances surface visually; cadence drift becomes an obvious correction target.
Contributor program managers
Guest vs WP profile share and per-guest contribution charts drive program design. Inactive guest profiles aggregate at the bottom of the per-author Bar for retirement decisions.
Compliance and reporting
Quarterly contributor reports as a saved chart export. Auditors get a PDF of distribution charts instead of a spreadsheet stitched together from per-author exports.
The bigger picture
Why bylines deserve a chart layer
Editorial sites accumulate bylines the same way they accumulate drafts: relentlessly. A long-running publication running Co-Authors Plus ends up with hundreds of guest profiles and dozens of active staff bylines, distributed unevenly across years of posts. The Authors screen lists them as if they were equal, the Posts screen filters one author at a time, and the operational picture (who actually publishes what, how much of the contribution is guest-driven, whether cadence is hitting target) becomes a spreadsheet exercise.
SleekView Charts collapses those recurring questions into a dashboard. Posts per primary author surface as a Bar, guest vs WP share surface as a Pie, publication cadence surface as an Area. The numbers come from the same author taxonomy Co-Authors Plus already maintains; the dashboard just makes them visible to the people who need them weekly.
Questions
Common questions about SleekView Charts for Co-Authors Plus
No. Charts read live from the author taxonomy joined to wp_posts via wp_term_relationships. The queries use standard WP indexes on terms and post_date, so per-render latency stays in the millisecond range on most installations.
Yes. Guest profiles and WordPress user authors share one byline column with a profile_type field that tells them apart. Charts grouped by profile_type render the mix correctly, and per-author Bars include both kinds without special handling.
Yes. A per-post co_author_count column exposes the byline width. A Bar grouped by co_author_count reveals the share of single-author posts versus collaborative bylines, useful for editorial process tracking.
Yes. Co-Authors Plus can be enabled on any post type, and the chart view mirrors that. The post_type column is a filterable dimension on every card, so per-section dashboards (case studies, podcasts, news) all work uniformly.
Yes. An Area card grouped by post_date with a filter scoped to a single primary_author shows that author's cadence over time. Useful for individual contributor reviews and for spotting departed staff whose cadence dropped off.
Yes. The dashboard filter includes post_status. Filter to publish to chart only live bylines, or to draft to surface stuck work-in-progress across the team. Each card respects the same filter so the dashboard stays internally consistent.
Yes. Queries use the standard term and post indexes; per-author aggregates use the term_taxonomy count where possible to avoid scanning relationships. Sites with thousands of guest profiles render the per-author Bar smoothly with pagination.
Yes. Each card exports its underlying filtered rows to CSV, and the full dashboard exports as a PDF. Quarterly contributor reporting becomes narrative on top of charts that are already aggregated, not a spreadsheet rebuild.
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