SleekView Kanban for Astra theme
SleekView Kanban reads the wp_posts table that Astra renders, groups every page and post by its post_status, and lets you drag a card from Draft to Pending, Scheduled, or Published with the change written through the standard WordPress update path.
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Astra renders the front, the editorial side stays a list
Astra is a front end theme. Every page and post it styles lives in the WordPress wp_posts table with a post_status column whose values are draft, pending, future, publish, private, and trash. The default Posts and Pages screens list those rows as a flat table sorted by date with status as a small badge per row, which works for an occasional update and breaks down once you have a real publishing pipeline behind the Astra front.
SleekView Kanban reads the same wp_posts rows and treats post_status as the natural axis to group by. Each card surfaces the title, the author, the scheduled or published date, and the post type. Columns mirror the real WordPress statuses, so the Draft stack and the Scheduled stack each read as a single number rather than as labels scattered across two hundred rows of a list table.
Drag a card from Draft to Pending and SleekView calls the same wp_update_post() path the editor uses, which fires every editorial hook your stack relies on. Drag to Future and the scheduled publish event lands on cron exactly as if you had set the date in the editor. Per author or per post type boards let each contributor focus on their own queue without losing the all-content board the editor needs.
Workflow
Spin up an Astra editorial kanban in four steps
Connect WordPress posts
wp_posts, every registered post type, and author and taxonomy fields without any manual mapping or CSV exports.
Pick the post_status column
post_status as the group-by axis. SleekView lists every distinct value present and renders one column per status: Draft, Pending, Scheduled, Published, Private, and any custom status.
Choose what shows on each card
Enable drag-and-drop status writes
wp_update_post(). Publish, schedule, and trash hooks fire exactly as the editor would, with optional confirmation on destructive drags like Trash or Private.
Sample board
Sample Astra editorial board
Comparison
Astra default editorial flow vs SleekView Kanban
Default WordPress admin
- Flat Posts and Pages list sorted by date with status as a small badge per row
- Status changes require opening each post and clicking Save Draft, Submit, or Publish
- No glance count of how many posts are stuck in Pending or queued in Scheduled
- Per-author and per-type queues require manual filters every visit, not a saved board
- Bulk status writes are limited to Trash and lack any visual queue across statuses
SleekView Kanban
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Groups
post_statusvalues into one column per state with live editorial counts -
Drag from
drafttopendingwrites viawp_update_post() - Cards show title, author, scheduled date, and post type in one readable tile
- Publish, schedule, and trash hooks fire on every drag so editorial automation still runs
- Per-author and per-type saved boards keep contributors focused without losing oversight
Features
What SleekView Kanban gives you for Astra theme
Group by any post status
Use the built-in WordPress statuses or any custom status your editorial plugins register, such as Edit Flow or PublishPress. SleekView renders one board column per status with counts that update live as you drag.
Drag to publish or schedule
Move a card from Pending to Scheduled and SleekView calls wp_update_post() with the new status. Scheduled events land on cron, publish hooks fire, and editorial automation runs as the editor would.
Configurable card fields
Pick which fields land on each card: title, author, scheduled date, post type, taxonomy term, or any ACF or post meta field your team uses. Dates format automatically and IDs resolve into readable labels.
Audience
Editorial workflows the kanban view unlocks for Astra sites
Daily editorial desk
Start the week on the Pending column, scan what is waiting for review, drag the ones that pass into Scheduled with a date or straight to Published. The board doubles as the editor's agenda.
Publishing calendar
Filter to the Scheduled column to see exactly which posts are queued and on which days, drag to reschedule, and rebalance the week visually instead of editing each post in turn.
Per-author saved boards
Save one board per author so each contributor only sees their own posts. The editor keeps an all-author board for the standup and the week ahead.
The bigger picture
Editorial pipelines deserve a board, not a list
A WordPress post is not just a row in a table, it is a lifecycle: idea, draft, review, schedule, publish, refresh, retire. Astra renders the front of that pipeline beautifully and leaves the editorial side to the standard Posts list, which presents the queue as a flat table sorted by date. That order is the order posts were created, not the order they need attention.
The board view fixes this by making post_status the primary axis of the screen. You can see at a glance how many posts are awaiting review, how many are queued for next week, and how many drafts have been sitting untouched for a month. Cards make individual posts legible at the level of title, author, scheduled date, and type, which is what an editor or contributor actually needs to act.
Drag is the natural verb for moving a post from one stage to the next, and because SleekView writes through wp_update_post(), every drag still triggers the publish hooks, the cron schedule, and the editorial integrations your stack relies on.
Questions
Common questions about SleekView Kanban for Astra theme
Every value WordPress writes to the post_status column: Draft, Pending, Future, Publish, Private, and Trash. Any custom status registered by editorial plugins like Edit Flow, PublishPress, or your own snippets appears as its own column the moment a post lands in it, with no manual mapping required.
Yes. SleekView calls wp_update_post() with the new status, so the row in wp_posts changes, the save_post and transition_post_status hooks fire, and any plugin listening to those events runs exactly as if you had used the editor.
SleekView offers an optional confirmation prompt on drags into destructive columns like Trash and Private. Any drag can be reverted by dragging the card back. Trash respects the WordPress trash lifecycle, so the post can be restored through the normal Restore action.
Yes. SleekView reads post state on a short interval and reconciles drags against the live record, so if a colleague has already published a post on their screen, you see the new state before your drag conflicts. Optimistic updates revert cleanly on rejected writes.
Yes. SleekView discovers every registered post type and lets you scope a board to one type, several types, or all of them. Custom post types like portfolio, case study, or product follow exactly the same post_status lifecycle and render the same way.
Yes. Dragging a card to Scheduled with a future date schedules the publish event on WP-Cron the same way the editor would. When the time arrives, the post transitions to Publish and every hook listening for that transition fires, including caching, sitemap, and notification plugins.
Yes. Save a filtered view per author, category, taxonomy term, or meta value, and SleekView renders one board per saved view. Column counts and writes are scoped to that view so each contributor or desk has a focused screen while the editor keeps an all-content overview.
Yes. SleekView only loads cards for the columns currently visible and paginates older posts into a scroll-on-demand tail. The post_status column is already indexed by WordPress, so column counts stay cheap even for sites with years of content.
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