SleekView Charts for PhotoSwipe Masonry
PhotoSwipe Masonry upgrades the WordPress [gallery] shortcode with a masonry layout and PhotoSwipe lightbox. SleekView Charts scans post_content for [gallery] usage and joins with attachment meta to chart coverage, image health, and freshness.
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From a shortcode enhancer to a gallery coverage dashboard
PhotoSwipe Masonry takes the core WordPress [gallery] shortcode and upgrades it with a masonry layout and the PhotoSwipe lightbox script. There is no custom gallery post type, so gallery data lives where it always has: inside post_content as shortcodes, plus attachment rows for the referenced images. The plugin's admin is a small settings screen, with no view of where the enhanced gallery actually fires.
SleekView indexes post_content for [gallery] shortcode instances, parses their IDs into attachment lookups, and joins with wp_posts and attachment meta. Charts adds the dashboard pass: posts with galleries KPI, post-type donut, alt-text gap bar, and modified-cadence area.
Sites that rely on the core gallery shortcode with PhotoSwipe Masonry as the visual layer (lifestyle blogs, photo journals, hobbyist portfolios) benefit most. The shortcode is invisible until rendered, but its content is countable.
Workflow
How the PhotoSwipe Masonry dashboard comes together
Scan post_content for [gallery] shortcodes
Join attachment meta for image health
Save the audit dashboard
Drill into the grid
Sample dashboard
Charts you can build from PhotoSwipe Masonry usage data
Posts with galleries
Count
Galleries by post type
Count
group by post_type
Posts with images missing alt text
Count
group by post_title
Posts modified per month
Count
group by modified_date
Comparison
Default PhotoSwipe Masonry settings vs SleekView Charts
PhotoSwipe Masonry settings
- Settings page configures layout but reports no usage
- Posts containing [gallery] shortcodes invisible without searching post_content
- Image-health audits require external accessibility tools
- Post-type spread of gallery usage not surfaced
- Stale posts with broken or missing gallery images go undetected
SleekView Charts
- Posts with galleries, post-type donut, alt-text bar, and modified area on one dashboard
- Scans post_content for [gallery] shortcodes, no plugin modifications required
- Drill from any chart segment to the SleekView grid for inline edits
- Alt-text fixes propagate through attachment meta to the PhotoSwipe caption
- Saved dashboards scoped per post type or category
Features
What SleekView Charts gives you for PhotoSwipe Masonry
Shortcode coverage view
The post-type donut answers where the masonry layout is actually firing. Editorial guidelines that mandate galleries on lifestyle posts show their effect (or absence) on the chart.
Gallery accessibility audit
Linked attachments without alt text fail screen readers and image-search rankings. The bar gives writers a prioritised list of posts to fix first.
Stale gallery surfacing
Posts with galleries that haven't been edited in years often hold broken or missing images. The area chart marks the cleanup tail clearly.
Audience
Who builds PhotoSwipe Masonry audit dashboards with SleekView
Lifestyle and photo blogs
Post-type donut and modified-cadence area drive editorial reviews. Stale photo posts surface for refresh or retirement in one drilldown.
Accessibility leads
Missing-alt bar is the working assignment. Inline edits push fixes back into attachment meta, which PhotoSwipe uses for caption text.
Site maintainers
Stale-gallery tail and broken-image filter together identify retirement candidates. Cleanup proceeds against a real picture, not guesswork.
The bigger picture
Why a PhotoSwipe Masonry audit dashboard scales gallery-heavy editorial sites
PhotoSwipe Masonry is intentionally light: it enhances the core WordPress [gallery] shortcode with a masonry layout and a modern lightbox, and leaves everything else alone. The trade-off is that the plugin has no view of how its enhanced gallery is being used across the site. Editorial teams running it on hundreds or thousands of posts cannot answer questions like which post types host the most galleries, which gallery images are missing alt text, or which old posts hold the most legacy gallery content.
SleekView scans post_content for [gallery] shortcodes and joins with attachment meta, then exposes the result as a sortable grid. Charts adds the four-card dashboard that turns the shortcode scan into a content audit surface. The plugin keeps its rendering role, the dashboard adds the audit and accessibility cleanup layer that the [gallery] shortcode itself has never offered.
Questions
Common questions about SleekView Charts for PhotoSwipe Masonry
No. The scan runs in SleekView's indexing pass, not on the front-end render path. PhotoSwipe Masonry keeps its normal lightweight behaviour.
Yes. Configure SleekView to index only the post types relevant to the audit, which keeps the dashboard scope sharp.
Yes. PhotoSwipe uses attachment alt text and caption fields, so updates flow through automatically on the next render.
Yes. The scanner counts each shortcode instance and resolves the union of attachment IDs for a clean per-post image count.
Yes. An optional card counts shortcodes that reference attachment IDs which no longer exist, surfacing broken galleries that need cleanup.
No. SleekView indexes incrementally and caches the scan, so chart cards stay sub-second after the initial index pass completes.
The plugin targets the [gallery] shortcode. A companion dashboard can scan block markup for core/gallery blocks to cover block-editor content as well.
Yes. Saved dashboards respect WordPress capabilities so each role sees the posts they're allowed to edit.
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