Kalium Photo Gallery, the gallery system shipped with the Kalium theme by Laborator, stores galleries as posts with a layout meta field (Grid, Masonry, Justified, Carousel), image attachments referenced through post meta, and optional categories or tags. Each gallery row carries the layout option, image count, publish date, and category assignments. The default Kalium admin manages galleries inside the page or portfolio editor, but cross-gallery questions like which layout dominates or how many galleries are empty are not part of the workflow.

SleekView reads the gallery post type, its image-attachment meta, and category taxonomy, joining with wp_posts for publish-date and modified information. Charts adds the dashboard pass: total galleries KPI, layout-mix donut, image-count buckets bar, and publish-cadence area.

Photographers, portfolio studios, and architecture firms running Kalium are the target audience: the theme excels at gallery layouts, but managing dozens or hundreds of galleries over years of shoots needs a real catalogue view.

Kalium is a photography- and creative-focused theme whose gallery layouts are part of why studios pick it. The trade-off is that gallery management lives inside individual page or portfolio editors, with no cross-gallery surface for portfolio-wide questions. Studios with three years of shoots and dozens of galleries end up maintaining a parallel spreadsheet just to track which galleries exist, what layout each uses, and when each was last touched.

SleekView reads the gallery post records and meta directly and exposes them as a sortable grid. Charts adds the four-card dashboard that turns the catalogue into a portfolio review surface: total galleries, layout donut, image-count buckets, and publish-cadence area. The Kalium editors keep their design-time role for the layout work itself.

The dashboard adds the catalogue management role the theme was never designed for, without requiring a parallel spreadsheet.