Photonic Gallery is unusual: instead of a custom post type, it expresses every gallery as a [photonic] (or wrapped [gallery]) shortcode embedded inside the post or page that displays it. The settings screen surfaces global defaults and credentials, but there is no admin index of where galleries live, which sources they pull from, or which layouts they use.

SleekView Charts reads wp_posts.post_content across the site, extracts every Photonic shortcode, and pivots the attributes (type, style, layout, columns) into chart-ready columns. Number cards count total Photonic instances. Pie cards split shortcodes by source (Flickr, SmugMug, Google Photos, Instagram, native WP). Bar cards rank posts by Photonic shortcode count or layout. Area cards trace Photonic adoption over post_date.

The same shortcode parser feeds the SleekView table, so editors can flip from the dashboard to a per-post triage of Photonic usage without rebuilding the query. Source credentials in wp_options stay where Photonic put them.

Photonic Gallery is one of the most flexible WordPress gallery plugins, partly because it sidesteps custom tables and post types entirely. Every gallery is a shortcode parameterised against a connected source. That flexibility comes with an invisibility cost: there is no admin index that says which posts use Photonic, which sources they hit, or which layout style dominates.

SleekView Charts parses every Photonic shortcode across post_content and renders the answers as cards. A donut of source mix confirms whether Flickr, SmugMug, Google Photos, or native WP is doing the work. A bar of layout style exposes default-config opportunities.

An area chart of adoption per month shows whether new posts still reach for Photonic. A single number KPI gives owners the migration scope or the retention case in one tile. The shortcodes have been in the database the whole time, the dashboard just makes them legible.