Yes. Upvotes increment the meta key you picked as the vote column on the original group post row. There is no parallel votes table, no external service, and any custom reports you already run against the groups data pick up the new counts immediately after each vote is cast on the board.

Yes. The submit button opens the Ultimate Member form you choose, posts the new idea into the same custom post type the board reads, and shows it on the board with zero votes and the default status. Members never see a separate submission form or a parallel database.

Boards respect the same Ultimate Member role permissions the rest of your site uses. Posts from a private group only appear for members who can already read that group, so a public board on the homepage skips private items automatically, with no extra filter to configure on the board side.

Yes. A board can read from one group, several groups, or every group on the site. Filters along the top let members narrow the view by group, category, or status, and the URL updates so leads can share a filtered view of just the ideas that matter to a particular group.

Cards for posts in a deleted or drafted group disappear from public boards automatically, because SleekView reads the live source row. The vote counts on those items remain stored on the post meta, so restoring the group brings back the same board state the members last saw before the change.

Yes. Any post taxonomy or meta key can drive the category tag on each card. Most teams use a small set like Feature request, Bug, UX, and Question, with one color per category, so members can scan the board and filter to the kind of work they are most interested in voting on.

Yes. SleekView ships with role-based permissions, so you can let logged in members vote, restrict submissions to paying members, or open both to everyone. Limits are checked on the server side so the rules cannot be bypassed by editing the page or replaying the request from a separate tab.

No. SleekView pages the board, only loads the cards on screen, and uses indexed columns for the vote and status filters. Large communities with tens of thousands of group posts stay responsive because the heavy fields are only fetched for the cards the visitor is actually looking at on the current page.