WP FullCalendar is a thin bridge between the FullCalendar JavaScript library and WordPress post types. It reads any post type with a date field (events, posts, or a custom CPT) and renders them on the front end as a month or week calendar. There is no custom event table; the plugin queries WP_Query and hands the results to FullCalendar.

SleekView reads the same post types WP FullCalendar reads, plus their meta, and turns them into chart cards. Total upcoming items, per-post-type mix, weekly cadence, and a category bar live on one dashboard. The cards refresh on the cache cadence you set, and the table view stays in lockstep with the chart so any segment drill returns the rows behind it.

The dashboard does not replace the front-end calendar. The FullCalendar embed still renders the same query for visitors. What it adds is the admin counterpart, where the same query becomes a planning surface that month and week views were not built to support.

WP FullCalendar is intentionally thin: it points the FullCalendar library at a post type and renders the result. That minimalism is its strength for visitors, who see a clean month or week embed. It is also why editors struggle with cross-month planning.

The data is already in WordPress, the calendar already queries it, but the admin offers settings and not a planning surface. A KPI of upcoming items is the morning glance, a donut of per-post-type mix is the editorial lens, a category bar is the section brief, and a cadence area is the warning for an empty week. SleekView reads the same post types FullCalendar reads, surfaces them as the four cards above, and leaves the front-end calendar untouched.

The embed stays the visitor view. The dashboard becomes the editor's planning companion.