PublishPress Pro is the modern fork of Edit Flow and the flagship of the PublishPress editorial suite. It stores custom statuses as a taxonomy, editorial metadata as postmeta, editorial comments as a custom comment type, and renders the whole thing as an editorial Calendar plus a Content Overview screen. Those are excellent visual surfaces; they are not aggregated dashboards. Counting posts in active statuses, splitting by editor, trending intake and surfacing overdue work are all questions the data answers and the default UI does not.

SleekView Charts reads the same wp_posts joined with PublishPress custom statuses and editorial metadata and turns the editorial pipeline into a measurable cockpit. A Number card counts posts in active editorial statuses so a daily stand-up has its headline number. A Pie splits posts by status so the front-of-pipeline (Pitch, Assigned) and back-of-pipeline (In review, Approved) are immediately comparable. A Bar groups by editor so load is bar height instead of a manual count from the Calendar. An Area trends new posts entering the pipeline per week so backlog growth has a shape.

PublishPress Pro keeps owning the calendar, the notifications, the editorial comments and the workflow itself. SleekView Charts adds the cross-pipeline KPI surface that the calendar was never built to be.

PublishPress Pro does the editorial layer faithfully and shows it through a calendar, an overview screen and a per-post sidebar. Those surfaces are excellent for inspection and weak for measurement. The questions an editorial team actually asks every week (how many posts are in active editorial status, how does load split across editors, is intake outrunning shipping, how many posts are overdue) need aggregation.

The data is already there inside PublishPress; charts make it readable. The KPI says the volume, the pie says the shape, the bar says the load, the area says the trend. The plugin keeps owning the editorial workflow itself, the dashboard becomes the cockpit on top, and editorial leadership can finally see the pipeline as a chart rather than as a calendar.