PublishPress Pro is the modern fork of Edit Flow and the flagship of the PublishPress editorial suite. It stores custom statuses as a taxonomy, editorial metadata as postmeta, editorial comments as a custom comment type, and renders the whole thing as an editorial Calendar plus a Content Overview screen. Those are excellent visual surfaces; they are not column-perfect tables. Counting open posts, sorting by due date, scoping by editor and finding posts stuck in feedback loops all become spreadsheet work once the pipeline crosses a couple of dozen pieces.

SleekView reads the same wp_posts joined with PublishPress custom statuses and editorial metadata. Status, editor, due date, word count and the editorial-comment count become first-class columns. Sorts work the way a managing editor expects: due date ascending, status grouped, editor for per-person load, comment count descending to expose feedback-stuck posts. Filters compose, so "every In review post past due with more than three editorial comments" is one composed view, and "every Approved post per section ready to publish this week" is another.

PublishPress Pro keeps owning the Calendar, the notifications, the editorial comments and the workflow itself. The table view adds the cross-pipeline working surface the Calendar was never built to be.

PublishPress Pro does the editorial layer faithfully and shows it through a Calendar, a Content Overview screen and a per-post sidebar. Those surfaces are excellent for inspection and weak as a daily working table. The questions an editorial team asks every day (what is in review past due, who has the heaviest load, which post is stuck in a comment loop) need composable filters and real sorts.

SleekView adds that surface without changing how PublishPress works. The plugin keeps owning the editorial workflow itself, the table view becomes the cockpit on top, and editorial leadership stops switching between the Calendar and a Google Sheet to answer questions the data already supports.