FooGallery uses the foogallery post type for galleries, with attached image IDs and per-image captions stored in postmeta. The optional foogallery_album CPT groups galleries into albums for the album-template views. The default admin lists galleries in a standard WP post list with title, author, and date. Item count, gallery template, attached album, and last modified date are not exposed as columns, so even basic questions like which galleries are empty or which use a deprecated template need a click into each post.

SleekView pivots gallery and album metadata into proper columns. Item count, template type, album membership, lightbox setting, and last edited become first-class columns ready for sort, filter, and grouping. Common saved views include Empty galleries to find ones missing images before publication, Galleries by template for migration planning when switching templates, and Album coverage to see which galleries are not yet assigned to an album. The data layer is already there in postmeta, SleekView just makes it queryable.

For the items inside a gallery, SleekView can build an item-level view that joins the FooGallery image list to wp_posts attachments and their postmeta. One row per gallery item shows the parent gallery, attachment ID, filename, size, dimensions, alt text, and caption. Filter for items missing alt text across all galleries to plan an accessibility pass, or sort by size to find oversized images dragging gallery load times. Inline edits cover gallery reassignment, alt text, and caption, so cleanup work happens in the table without opening each attachment.

Galleries pile up. A site that has been online for a few years usually has hundreds of FooGallery posts, mixed across templates, mixed across photographers, mixed across campaign and evergreen content. The default WP post list cannot tell you which ones are empty drafts, which use a deprecated template, which are missing alt text on half their items, or which are not yet assigned to an album.

Each of those questions takes a click into the post or a custom query, and most teams end up never asking the questions because the friction is too high. Galleries that should have been deleted live forever, accessibility gaps stay invisible, and migrations off a legacy template stretch over months because there is no central inventory. SleekView fixes that by treating galleries and gallery items as the structured data they already are.

The same gallery posts and the same postmeta become a queryable surface where audits, migrations, and accessibility passes are list-level work rather than per-post work. The gallery rendering stays exactly where FooGallery handles it, and the management layer becomes legible at scale.