Simple:Press uses its own dedicated tables rather than riding on WordPress post types. Forums sit in sfforums, topics in sftopics, and posts in sfposts, with status flags for opened, sticky, and approved, plus counts for posts and views directly on the topic and forum rows. The default Simple:Press admin offers per-forum drill-down, which fits how the data is shaped but doesn't compose into the cross-forum views moderation operations need.

SleekView reads sftopics directly, joins sfforums for the board name and users for the author email, and pivots the result into a flat moderation table. Filter by status, sort by view or post count, group by author for leaderboards across sfposts, and bulk-flip status fields across many rows. Per-forum scoping via forum_id keeps category moderators inside their own boards.

Inline edits route through Simple:Press' own status methods where exposed so cascade logic keeps parent forum counts and last-activity timestamps accurate. Direct table writes with conflict detection handle migrations and back-fills, with the Simple:Press schema's normalised structure making column mapping straightforward.

Simple:Press chose its own dedicated tables for a reason: dedicated columns let the plugin's UI surface the right counts and statuses without postmeta acrobatics. The same dedication makes cross-forum operations cleaner in principle but harder in practice when the default admin sticks to per-forum drill-down. Super-moderators want one queue across every board sorted by recency.

Sub-forum moderators want the same template scoped to their assigned boards. Approval reviewers want every unapproved post in one place. Each of those is a single query against the existing tables but the default admin doesn't compose them.

SleekView's job is to flatten the per-forum walk into the workspaces moderation teams actually use, with writes routing through Simple:Press' status methods so cascade logic keeps the data consistent. Same database, fewer screens, dramatically more throughput on busy multi-board communities.