WP RSS Aggregator models the import pipeline as two custom post types. Feed sources live in wprss_feed with the source URL, polling interval, and last-fetched time in postmeta. Imported articles land in wprss_feed_item with wprss_item_date, wprss_feed_id, wprss_item_permalink, and an optional author key. The default admin lists feed sources with WP columns and lists imported items as a separate screen, so the shape questions, how many items per feed, how the daily inflow looks, which sources have gone quiet, sit in the postmeta the list views do not surface.

SleekView Charts reads both CPTs and joins them on the feed ID, then turns the answers into chart cards on one saved dashboard. A Number card counts items imported in the last seven days. A Donut splits items by feed so the top contributors are obvious. A Horizontal Bar ranks feeds by total imported volume. An Area chart traces the daily inflow across the chosen window so spikes and drops in source activity show up at a glance.

This is not a replacement for WP RSS Aggregator's import engine. The plugin keeps polling, deduping, and writing the items, and its cron and feed-source rules continue to drive every fetch. SleekView Charts adds the reading surface for the editorial questions the import list cannot answer side by side, scoped per role and embeddable on a frontend page for stakeholders who should not need admin access.

Aggregation sites live and die by source health. WP RSS Aggregator solves the import pipeline, polling feeds, deduping items, and writing them to the wprss_feed_item CPT with the meta the renderer needs. The reading side is still two list screens, the feed sources screen and the imported items screen, and the shape questions an editorial lead asks daily live in the postmeta neither screen surfaces.

SleekView Charts reads the same CPTs and turns the inflow into a saved dashboard. Editorial sees the items-per-feed donut and the headline weekly count. Ops sees the daily area chart and the top-feeds ranking to catch outages and noisy sources.

Stakeholders read the same dashboard on a frontend embed without needing WordPress admin. The plugin keeps owning the import engine, and the team finally has the dashboard that turns a list of articles into a story about where the content is actually coming from.