Yes. SleekView reads the standard WordPress comments table and the wpDiscuz Comment Ratings meta layer, so it works on any site running both plugins. No additional add-on is required, and the typical setup takes about five minutes once SleekView is installed and the comments object is selected as the data source.

All three are supported. The upvote column accepts any meta key wpDiscuz Comment Ratings stores, so the same site can publish a Most upvoted board, a Most loved board, and a Top rated reviews board side by side with different sort sources and different filtering rules.

Yes. SleekView queries comments through the standard WordPress comment status filter, which respects the moderation rules wpDiscuz applies. Pending, spam, and trashed comments never appear on a public board, and moderators see them only when the board is explicitly scoped to include those statuses.

Yes. The vote writes to the wpDiscuz comment meta directly, which is the same row the thread vote arrow updates. Vote counts therefore stay consistent between the per-post thread and the cross-post board with no reconciliation, deduping, or scheduled sync job required to keep them aligned.

Each reply is its own row in the comments table with its own vote meta, so replies can rank on the board independently of their parents. Sites that prefer to display top-level comments only can add a parent ID filter to the board configuration to exclude nested replies from the aggregation entirely.

Yes. The data source picker accepts a parent post ID filter or a post category filter, so a Best comments board for a specific article and a category-scoped board both work out of the box. Each scoped board has its own status, category, and sort configuration independent of other boards on the site.

No. SleekView paginates the underlying query, caches the sorted set, and uses indexed columns for the wpDiscuz meta join. A board on a site with millions of comment rows renders in the same time as a board on a small site because the database does the sort once and the cache covers subsequent visitors.

The board keeps rendering against the standard comments table, but the vote and rating meta keys return zero for every row because the add-on is no longer recording them. Reactivating Comment Ratings resumes the data flow without any SleekView reconfiguration required to restore the sort behavior.