Say What? takes a focused approach to translation: not a full localization layer, just a list of string replacements that filter through the WordPress gettext hooks. Every rule is stored as a row in wp_say_what_strings with columns for original_string, domain, text_context, and replacement_string. There is also an internal id and a small flag for whether the rule is active. The plugin's admin lists those rows in a paginated table with edit and delete buttons.

That format is great for adding one rule at a time and weak for any kind of audit. The default Say What? table confirms whether a specific rule exists and lets you edit it, but it does not answer "how many rules target the WooCommerce text domain" or "how many rules have we added this quarter" without scrolling and counting by hand.

SleekView Charts reads wp_say_what_strings directly and renders four cards on top of it. A Number for total active rules. A Pie split by the domain column. A Bar of rules per text_context. An Area of rule additions per week from the rule id and update timestamp. Say What? keeps owning the gettext filter and the rule editor. SleekView only reads the rows the plugin has already written.

Say What? does one thing extremely well: it lets a non-developer override any translatable string with a custom replacement. What it does not do is tell anyone how big the rule book has gotten. The default admin lists one swap per row in a paginated table and confirms whether a specific rule exists.

Neither the admin nor any WordPress dashboard answers "how many WooCommerce strings have we rebranded" or "how fast is the team adding rules during this rebrand" without scrolling and counting. SleekView Charts reads the same wp_say_what_strings table and renders four cards that answer those questions in one glance. The data is already correct because Say What? wrote it.

Charts just gives the team a dashboard to look at it. Hidden growth in the swap table eventually causes conflicts between rules, and a live dashboard catches the trend before it bites.