No. You can replace the embed, run it alongside the board during a trial, or use the board on a dedicated feedback page while the embed stays on individual posts. The mirrored custom post type drives both surfaces, so vote totals and moderation state stay perfectly aligned regardless of which combination you choose.

SleekView does not care which deployment of Commento you run. The integration plugin points at any base URL plus credential pair, and the mirror behaves the same way regardless of whether the Commento server runs on the hosted plan or on your own infrastructure behind a custom domain and certificate.

SleekView writes the vote locally first, then queues a retry through the WordPress action scheduler with exponential back off. If the Commento server is down, the local board still reflects the upvote, and the queued retry syncs the change upstream automatically once the server recovers fully.

Yes. The integration plugin pulls moderation events on a short interval and exposes a webhook endpoint Commento can push to, so status pills update on the board within seconds of any approval, hold, or rejection inside the Commento dashboard. Live mode pushes that change to readers without a manual refresh.

Yes. SSO continues to apply to every write SleekView makes against the Commento API. Logged in readers vote as themselves, and anonymous readers follow the same identity policy Commento enforces, which means the board respects whatever SSO and anonymous rules you configured inside Commento itself.

Yes. SleekView calls into the Commento API for every write, which means rate limits, captcha rules, and any anti-spam filters apply to board upvotes the same way they apply to votes placed in the embed. There is no separate vote pipeline to harden against abuse from the SleekView side.

Yes. The SleekView toolbar includes a CSV export that respects the current filter, so you can pull the top fifty threads of the month, every Open thread tagged as a bug, or any other slice into a spreadsheet in one click. The export carries titles, vote totals, authors, statuses, and category tags.

Yes. Commento itself owns the upstream data, and the integration plugin owns the mirrored custom post type. Removing SleekView only removes the rendering layer, so every thread, vote, and moderation state stays intact and the standard Commento embed keeps working with no rebuild or migration step required.