The Events Calendar registers events as the tribe_events post type in wp_posts, with event start and end times in wp_tec_events and the comments attendees leave living in the standard wp_comments table joined to the event post. After an event wraps, those comments carry session ratings, speaker praise, and requests for next time, but the default front end shows them as a flat date sorted thread with no upvote, no status, and no category beyond the event itself.

SleekView Feedback reads the same comments and the same event posts, then renders one card per item sorted by votes instead of date. A meta key on the comment carries the topic the attendee is voting for, another carries the speaker name when the note is a session rating, and the status column tracks whether your organiser team marked the request as Planned, Scheduled, Shipped, or Declined. The card front shows the title, the running vote count, the author, a category pill like Session or Topic, and a colored status pill read straight from your source rows.

Clicking Upvote increments a counter back into comment meta, so the running total moves with the audience. The board also accepts new submissions from logged in attendees, which land as comments on the most relevant upcoming event with the chosen topic category preselected, so the next event's planning starts the moment the current one ends instead of weeks later in a separate spreadsheet.

Most organisers running The Events Calendar already collect great post event feedback, it just never makes it past the inbox or the comment thread on a single event page. A future attendee deciding whether to buy a ticket next year has no way to see which complaint your team actually fixed last season, or which keynote topic finally shipped after a hundred upvotes. That gap costs trust on every comparison search, because the social proof exists but stays invisible.

SleekView Feedback gives the same data a public surface that feels like a modern roadmap tool. Comments show up as cards with vote counts, statuses, and category pills, so a single board answers questions like which speaker keeps getting requested, which venue complaint keeps coming back, and which new track attendees are begging for. The data never moves, the source of truth stays inside The Events Calendar, and yet the page reads like a Canny board purpose built for live events.

Over a few seasons, that board becomes a living portfolio of how your programme listens to its audience, and that portfolio converts skeptical visitors into ticket buyers far better than a star average ever could.