SleekView Charts for Edit Flow
Edit Flow stores custom statuses as a taxonomy and editorial metadata in _ef_editorial_meta_* postmeta. SleekView Charts rolls them into pipeline dashboards with status donuts, editor workload bars, and publication trends.
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Editorial telemetry from the same metadata
Edit Flow stores custom editorial statuses (Pitch, Assigned, In review, Approved) as a taxonomy backing the post-status dropdown, and editorial metadata (due date, word count, channel, brief) in postmeta under keys prefixed _ef_editorial_meta_. The Story Budget and Calendar give a calendar-style overview, but neither answers 'how many pieces are stuck in review' or 'what is our weekly publication rate'.
SleekView Charts reads the post table joined with the Edit Flow status taxonomy, pivots editorial-meta keys, and aggregates. Total drafts in flight, pipeline distribution as a donut, editor workload as a bar, and posts published per week as an area chart turn the same data the Story Budget summarises into a dashboard a managing editor can scan in seconds.
Charts share the same data layer as the SleekView editorial table, so a filter applied on the table (status equals In review, due in the next 7 days) reshapes every chart card. The downstream PublishPress Planner fork uses the same data structures, so a dashboard built for Edit Flow ports across with minor configuration. The plugin still owns notifications and the editorial workflow; the charts add the reporting layer the Story Budget hints at but does not fully deliver.
Workflow
From custom statuses to a pipeline dashboard
Read posts with custom statuses
Pivot editorial-meta keys
Pick pipeline KPIs
Trend publication velocity
Sample dashboard
Charts you can build from Edit Flow data
Drafts in flight
Count
Pipeline by status
Count
group by ef_status
Workload by editor
Count
group by post_author
Posts published per week
Count
group by post_date
Comparison
Default Edit Flow reporting vs SleekView Charts
Default Edit Flow
- Story Budget and Calendar are overviews, not aggregated KPIs
- Status distribution is not visualised anywhere
- Editor workload across the pipeline requires manual counting
- Weekly publication trends need external spreadsheet work
- Editorial-meta fields are not surfaced in any chart
SleekView Charts
- Drafts-in-flight Number card across every status
- Pipeline donut for at-a-glance bottleneck detection
- Editor workload bar with joined names
- Publication velocity area chart per week
- Average days-in-status from editorial-meta timestamps
Features
What SleekView Charts gives you for Edit Flow
Pipeline bottleneck donut
Distribution across Pitch, Assigned, In review, and Approved in one shape. The donut surfaces whether writing or reviewing is the bottleneck this week.
Editor workload
A horizontal bar of open posts per editor, joined to wp_users for readable labels. Reassignment decisions become data-driven instead of memory-driven.
Publication velocity
An area chart of posts published per week turns editorial pace into a number. Retros and planning meetings open with the curve, not a vibes check.
Audience
Who builds Edit Flow charts dashboards with SleekView
Managing editors
A daily dashboard with pipeline donut and workload bar. Standups open with three numbers instead of a Story Budget tour and a per-status drill-down.
Newsroom teams
Per-team dashboards scoped via Edit Flow User Groups, with handoff-rate charts and review-load bars. Cross-team capacity becomes a saved view.
Editorial leads
Weekly publication trend and average days-in-status charts as the opening slides of every retro. Editorial pace gets a real number; bottlenecks get a name.
The bigger picture
Editorial workflow needs aggregate signals
Editorial workflow plugins fail in a specific way: they ship a calendar and a budget board, both of which are visual overviews, and they treat the per-post editor as the place where actual work happens. The middle layer (the standup queue, the 'what is blocking us' question, the 'are we shipping enough' question) requires aggregates. Edit Flow already stores the data: custom statuses, due dates, assigned editors, word counts.
The default surfaces summarise it as a calendar grid, which is great for date scanning and useless for status-distribution questions or velocity trends. Aggregate charts close that gap. A donut of pipeline status shows whether the bottleneck is writing or reviewing in a glance.
A bar of editor workload surfaces capacity issues before they cost a deadline. An area chart of posts published per week turns editorial pace into a number. SleekView Charts reads the same postmeta and taxonomies Edit Flow writes to, so dashboards stay in sync with the canonical data.
The plugin keeps owning the workflow; the charts add the visibility the Story Budget never quite delivered.
Questions
Common questions about SleekView Charts for Edit Flow
Custom statuses from the Edit Flow taxonomy, editorial metadata from _ef_editorial_meta_* postmeta, post authors from wp_posts, and User Group assignments from usermeta. Each becomes a chartable dimension after the join.
Yes. Pivot specific _ef_editorial_meta_* keys into named columns first (deadline, channel, brief link), then chart them. A bar of average word-count target per channel or a donut of pieces by channel is two clicks to build.
Yes. Planner is the modern fork and preserves Edit Flow's taxonomy and meta naming. SleekView Charts reads both with minor configuration differences, so dashboards built on Edit Flow port to Planner without rebuilding.
Yes. Edit Flow stores User Groups in a taxonomy with usermeta linkage. Charts can scope to a group so each team opens to its own pipeline view. Cross-team dashboards stay available for managing editors.
If your install records status-change timestamps (Edit Flow can be configured to log them as editorial-meta), charts compute average days-in-status as a chartable metric. A bar of average days per status surfaces the bottleneck column quantitatively.
Yes. Charts and Tables share the same data layer. A filter on the SleekView editorial table (status equals In review, due in the next 7 days) reshapes every chart card on the dashboard.
Yes. Edit Flow can apply its statuses and metadata to any post type. SleekView Charts reads whichever post types Edit Flow is active on, so a custom 'newsletter' or 'video' CPT charts the same way standard posts do.
Yes. Each card exports as PNG and as CSV. Weekly velocity charts and quarterly bottleneck rankings come out of the dashboard ready for editorial board presentations.
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