PublishPress Content Checklist (formerly PublishPress Checklists) enforces editorial standards at publish time: minimum word count, featured image, alt text, category present, custom checks. Each post carries the evaluation result in postmeta, so the data is there for any post type the checklist applies to. The meta box inside the editor is excellent at the per-post layer. The site-wide layer (which posts are passing right now, which ones are silently failing, which requirements fail most often, which authors miss the same checks repeatedly) lives one query away from a real dashboard.

SleekView Charts reads the same evaluation data the meta box computes and joins it with each post. A Number card counts failing posts so editorial leads start every morning with the size of the cleanup queue. A Pie splits failing rows by which requirement they miss most, so the bar can be raised on the right item first. A Bar groups failing rows by author so coaching becomes targeted rather than vague editorial nudging. An Area trends pass rate per week so the effect of a tightened standard becomes a curve.

PublishPress Content Checklist keeps owning the requirement definitions and the enforcement gate. SleekView Charts adds the site-wide quality dashboard the meta box was not built to be.

Editorial quality systems quietly degrade unless someone audits them at the level of the whole site rather than the next post. PublishPress Content Checklist is excellent at enforcing rules at publish time and exposes a clean meta box inside the editor. What it does not do by default is look back across the catalogue.

Sites ship a year of posts that pass on publish day, then add a new requirement, and end up with hundreds of posts that silently fail it. The same is true when a standard is tightened: every existing post needs reassessing. Charts turn the checklist from an at-the-door bouncer into an ongoing quality dashboard.

The KPI says how many posts fail right now. The pie says which requirement fails most. The bar says which authors miss the same checks.

The trend says whether quality is improving or drifting. That is the difference between standards on paper and standards in practice.