SleekView Charts for Real Media Categories
Real Media Categories by devowl.io organises attachments into folders backed by dedicated tables. SleekView Charts reads those tables and the standard attachment metadata, then turns library organisation into a reporting dashboard.
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A Real Media Categories dashboard built from the realmedialibrary tables
Real Media Categories is the free-tier sibling of Real Media Library and shares its data model. Folders live in the wp_realmedialibrary table and attachments link to folders through the wp_realmedialibrary_posts join, while attachment metadata, file size, MIME type, dimensions, and upload date, stays in the standard wp_posts and wp_postmeta rows. The default admin replaces the media grid with a folder tree, perfect for navigation, but turns library-wide shape questions into a folder-by-folder walk through the tree.
SleekView Charts joins the realmedialibrary tables to attachments and the postmeta, then turns the answers into chart cards on one saved dashboard. A Number card sums total bytes across the library. A Donut splits attachments by MIME type. A Horizontal Bar ranks folders by total bytes for storage audits. An Area chart traces uploads per day so campaigns and editorial cycles show up as visible spikes.
This is not a replacement for Real Media Categories. The folder tree stays exactly where it is for navigation, and devowl.io's plugin continues to own folder creation, drag-and-drop reassignment, and the underlying join writes. SleekView Charts adds the reading layer the folder browser does not lay out side by side, scoped per role and embeddable on a frontend page.
Workflow
From the realmedialibrary tables to a library dashboard
Connect the realmedialibrary tables
Switch the view to Charts
Add the library cards
Save and share the dashboard
Sample dashboard
Charts you can build from Real Media Categories data
Total library size
Sum(file_size)
Attachments by MIME type
Count
group by post_mime_type
Top folders by total size
Sum(file_size)
group by folder_name
Uploads per day
Count
group by post_date
Comparison
Default Real Media Categories admin vs SleekView Charts
Default Real Media Categories
- Folder tree hides per-folder size and type mix until you click in
- No headline KPI for total library size across folders
- Type mix donut needs a manual scan through the folder tree
- Upload rhythm over time is not surfaced anywhere
- Top folders by storage usage need a CSV export to compare
SleekView Charts
- Read the realmedialibrary tables joined to attachments and postmeta
- Group by folder, MIME type, uploader, and upload date in chart cards
- Sum file_size across folders for storage leaderboards
- Saved chart views scoped per role for marketing, ops, and finance
- Embed any saved chart view on a frontend page with role-based access
Features
What SleekView Charts gives you for Real Media Categories
Folder shape on one screen
Replace the per-folder click-through with a dashboard that answers shape questions directly. Total size, type mix, top folders, and upload rhythm on one screen.
Storage audits without exports
The top-folders bar and the total-size KPI answer storage questions in seconds, so housekeeping happens before backup windows and disk limits force the conversation.
Honest free-tier framing
Real Media Categories shares its data model with Real Media Library. The dashboards work on the free plugin, and Pro features surface as additional cards the day the upgrade is installed.
Audience
Who builds Real Media Categories charts dashboards with SleekView
Marketing teams
Open a per-campaign folder dashboard to confirm the asset queue is sized correctly, with the type donut catching missing video and the upload area chart showing the build-up to launch.
Site auditors
Watch the total-size KPI and the top-folders bar to catch storage hotspots before they hit hosting limits, with the type mix donut flagging unexpected PDF or video accumulation.
Editorial leads
Combine folder grouping with uploader filters to see which contributor is uploading to which project, useful for accessibility audits and content reviews.
The bigger picture
Why the free RML tier still deserves a dashboard
Real Media Categories is the free entry point to the Real Media Library data model, and that data model is one of the strongest in the folder-plugin space. Dedicated folder tables, a clean join to attachments, and respect for WordPress's standard attachment fields means questions like total library size or top folders by storage are answerable in SQL today, just not in any admin screen. SleekView Charts reads those tables and turns the answers into a dashboard.
Marketing sees per-folder shape, ops sees storage hotspots, editorial sees the upload rhythm against publishing cycles. The folder tree and the dashboard are complementary surfaces on the same data, the tree is for navigation and reassignment, the dashboard is for the reviews and audits the tree cannot answer in one screen.
Questions
Common questions about SleekView Charts for Real Media Categories
No. Real Media Categories continues to own the folder tree, drag-and-drop reassignment, and the realmedialibrary table writes. SleekView Charts is a reading surface that reads the same tables and the attachment postmeta, then turns them into a dashboard inside admin.
Yes. Real Media Categories shares its core data model with Real Media Library, so the charts that work on the free plugin work the same way on Pro. Pro features like galleries, collections, and shortcodes surface as additional chart dimensions when active.
Yes. SleekView writes through the plugin's API rather than the join table directly, so folder change hooks fire normally. The folder tree updates its counts and any integration listening for folder reassignment runs the same way it would from the standard UI.
Yes. WordPress writes the post_author on every attachment, and SleekView Charts surfaces that as a chartable dimension. A Bar card grouped by uploader gives a per-contributor view, useful for accessibility audits and content reviews.
No. Cards paginate and aggregate against the existing realmedialibrary indexes and the standard wp_postmeta indexes, with SleekView caching aggregation results between renders. Even libraries with tens of thousands of attachments keep dashboards quick.
Yes. Saved chart views support role-based visibility so marketing, ops, and finance each see only the dashboards you allow.
Yes. Any saved chart view can be embedded on a frontend page with role-based access, so storage owners and stakeholders read the dashboard without WordPress admin.
Yes. WooCommerce product images are attachments like any other, so they appear in the dashboard with their folder, size, and type. Filter by folder to audit product photography per category, or sort by size to catch oversized hero shots.
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