Tasks by PublishPress is the editorial task add-on of the PublishPress family. Tasks attach to posts as a custom post type with meta for status, assignee and due date, and the plugin surfaces them in a sidebar on the post editor and in a simple admin list. For a single managing editor running a few posts, that is enough. For a newsroom or content team running dozens of pieces in parallel, the data lives in the right shape but the surface does not show it.

SleekView reads the same task post type and meta and renders it as a cross-pipeline editorial table. Status, assignee, due date and linked post become first-class columns. Sorts work the way a managing editor expects: due date ascending, status grouped, assignee for a per-person view. Filters compose, so "open tasks assigned to Priya due this week" is one composed view, and "every overdue task across the issue" is another. Inline edits on status and assignee route through the standard WordPress save path, so PublishPress hooks fire exactly the way they would from the editorial sidebar.

PublishPress keeps owning the workflow, the notifications and the editorial integration. The table view adds the cross-pipeline cockpit the sidebar was never built to be.

Editorial workflow plugins solve the per-post layer well and the cross-post layer poorly. Tasks by PublishPress stores the data perfectly: each task has a status, an assignee, a due date and a link to the post it belongs to. The sidebar surface answers "what is left on this post".

The table view answers "what is left on the issue, what is overdue, who is overloaded, what is blocking us this week". Those are different questions and they need a different shape. SleekView adds that shape without changing how PublishPress works.

Sorts and filters compose, inline edit routes through the normal save path, and editorial leadership finally has the cockpit the data was always asking for.