wpForo Pro stores its forum data in dedicated tables: wpforo_forums for the boards themselves, wpforo_topics for threads, and wpforo_posts for individual replies. Each table carries the counts and timestamps the wpForo UI uses, including view_count, reply_count, last_post_id, and status. The default wpForo admin lets moderators work through one forum at a time but doesn't offer a cross-forum flat queue with the columns operations actually want.

SleekView reads wpforo_topics directly, joins wpforo_forums for the board name and users for the author email, and pivots the result into a flat topic table. Filter to spam-flagged threads, sort by view count to find heating-up threads, and bulk-flip status to close stale topics overnight. Per-author leaderboards group by user_id for post-count, reply-count, and last-active reporting.

Inline edits route through wpForo's own model methods where exposed so the plugin's cascade logic stays consistent — closing a topic updates the parent forum's last-activity timestamp, and deleting a post recalculates the topic's reply count. Direct table writes with conflict detection handle migrations and back-fills.

Forums scale on moderation throughput and the wpForo schema makes that possible because every count and timestamp is already stored in real columns. The default admin's per-forum screen makes sense for a small community with three or four boards but becomes a bottleneck once a community runs twenty forums with daily moderation. Super-moderators want one queue across every board sorted by recency.

Sub-forum moderators want the same view template scoped to their own boards. Support teams running their helpdesk through a forum want the unanswered-questions filter as a one-click view. 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 drill-down into the workspaces operations actually use, with writes routing through wpForo's model so the plugin's cascade logic keeps the data consistent. Same database, hooks intact, dramatically less per-board clicking for the people running daily moderation.