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SleekView Kanban for Bricks Builder

SleekView reads your Bricks Builder templates and Bricks-built pages directly from the WordPress post tables, groups them by post status or any taxonomy you nominate, and lets your team drag each card between columns so design review, scheduling, and publishing happen on one shared board.

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SleekView Kanban board for Bricks Builder

Why Bricks Builder teams need a board

Bricks Builder stores its templates as bricks_template custom post type entries inside wp_posts, with the actual builder JSON serialized into wp_postmeta under _bricks_page_content_2 and template conditions in _bricks_template_settings. Regular Bricks-built pages live in wp_posts as standard pages with the same builder meta key.

The default admin at Bricks > Templates shows a paginated list which is fine for ten or twenty templates but becomes hard to manage the moment your site has dozens of singular templates, archive templates, popups, headers, and footers across multiple post types and conditional template rules that target specific content.

SleekView reads from bricks_template and from any post type where Bricks is the active editor, and surfaces every column as a possible grouping axis. The starting point is post_status with draft, pending, publish, and trash, but most teams add a custom design_review meta with values like wireframe, design, dev review, qa, and shipped, and group by that to mirror the real Bricks design workflow.

Workflow

From Bricks template list to status board in four steps

1

Connect Bricks templates

Pick the Bricks template post type or any post type where Bricks is the active editor. SleekView auto-detects every meta key including _bricks_page_content_2, _bricks_template_type, and any custom taxonomies your team uses to tag templates by section or conditional priority.
2

Pick the column to group by

Choose any field as your kanban grouping key. Most teams pick the built-in WordPress post status with draft, pending review, scheduled, and published, but a custom design review meta or the Bricks template type taxonomy works as the column axis when needed.
3

Choose what shows on cards

Drag up to six fields onto the card face. Typical picks are template title, template type, last edited author, last updated timestamp, and the assigned designer. Cards stay compact at a glance and expand on click to show every Bricks meta field on the underlying template entry.
4

Enable drag and drop

Flip on write-back and every card drag updates the underlying post through the standard WordPress API, firing post transition hooks so caching, the Bricks CSS regeneration, and any analytics tied to publishing stay in sync. Lock columns for read-only review states if needed.

Sample board

Sample Bricks template design board

A live preview of a Bricks template board grouped by post status, with template title, template type, and last edited author on each card and totals shown in each column header.
Draft
18
New singular template variant
Sarah Mitchell, single type
Archive template redesign
James Park, archive type
Reusable header v2
Priya Shah, header type
Pending review
6
Product launch landing template
Mark Lee, awaiting brand sign off
Custom popup template
Emma Carter, dev qa pending
Cookie consent banner
Tom Wright, legal review
Scheduled
3
Holiday landing template
Linda Park, queued for Nov 25
Year recap archive template
Daniel Kim, queued for Dec 28
Black Friday reusable hero
Aisha Khan, queued for Nov 28
Published
108
Default singular template current
Sarah Mitchell, used site wide
Blog archive template
James Park, on every archive
Global header in production
Priya Shah, current header

Comparison

Default Bricks template list versus SleekView Kanban

Default Bricks template list

  • Templates land in a paginated post list with no visual sense of design pipeline depth
  • Status changes require opening every template individually, no bulk drag between states
  • Custom design review fields cannot become the grouping axis without extra developer work
  • Scheduled templates mix into the publish queue with no separation from already live ones
  • Designer handoffs rely on private comments which are invisible from the Bricks template list

SleekView Kanban

  • Reads directly from bricks_template and wp_postmeta with no duplicate storage
  • Drag-and-drop writes back through wp_update_post so caching and hooks fire correctly
  • Group by built-in post_status, _bricks_template_type, or any custom meta
  • Card face accepts up to six fields including template type and assigned designer
  • Works with the Bricks query loop, dynamic data, and ACF integrations without extra config

Features

What SleekView Kanban gives you for Bricks Builder

Group by any field on the template

Built-in post status is the default grouping but any taxonomy, custom meta, or design review stage field becomes a kanban column axis. Boards remember the grouping per user so your designer and your front-end developer can each see the same templates differently every login.

Drag-and-drop writes back to posts

Moving a card calls the standard WordPress post update API which fires every transition hook, the Bricks CSS regeneration, and any caching plugin invalidations exactly as the editor would from the admin. Optimistic UI updates instantly and rolls back on API failure.

Per-role column visibility

Hide the Published column from designers, hide the Draft column from approvers, or expose archive columns only to admins. Visibility rules use WordPress capabilities so they line up with whatever role plugin your team already uses for the Bricks editor access.

Audience

Common Bricks Builder boards teams build

Design system template library

Group every template by design review stage so the team knows what is in concept, what is being built in the editor, what passed qa, and what is live across pages right now in production.

Campaign landing page tracking

Group templates by a campaign taxonomy so marketing leads see exactly how many landing pages each upcoming launch needs and which ones are still missing approvals from brand.

Designer assignment board

Group templates by author so design leads can balance workload, spot bottlenecks on busy designers, and reassign drafts before campaign deadlines slip past planned launch dates.

The bigger picture

Why a real board beats the Bricks template list

Bricks Builder is great at letting designers ship clean lightweight pages from a fast visual editor but its admin is built around the assumption that you will review every template one at a time inside the standard WordPress post list. That works fine when your site has a handful of templates. It falls apart the moment Bricks becomes the design system for an entire team with multiple stages and multiple designers handling concepts, builds, qa, and launches in parallel across singular templates, archives, popups, headers, and footers.

A kanban board fixes the part Bricks was never designed to fix: pipeline visibility. You see at a glance how deep each column is, which templates have been sitting in Draft the longest, and what the team shipped since yesterday. Status changes happen with a single drag and every change writes back through the proper WordPress API so caching keeps working exactly as before.

Questions

Common questions about SleekView Kanban for Bricks Builder

The drag calls the standard WordPress post update API so the change is persisted to wp_posts and triggers the usual transition_post_status hook chain. Bricks regenerates its CSS cache, other caching plugins invalidate, and any analytics tied to publishing react exactly as if a designer moved the template through the regular Bricks admin screen for that entry.

 

Yes. Any taxonomy, custom meta field, or the Bricks template type field itself can be the grouping axis. Most teams add a custom design_review meta key for stages like wireframe, design, dev review, qa, and shipped, and group by that instead of the raw post status field on the template entry.

 

Yes. All Bricks template types live in the same bricks_template post type and SleekView reads them the same way. You can filter the board by template type or run separate boards for each template type if your team has dedicated designers for headers, footers, archives, and singular pages.

 

Scheduled templates appear in their own Scheduled column by default with the queued publish time shown on each card. Moving a scheduled template back to Draft clears the publish timestamp, and moving it forward to Published immediately fires the publish hook so any downstream integrations run right away on the live site.

 

Yes. Every action on a card uses the same capability checks as the standard Bricks editor, so users without the Bricks edit capability cannot drag cards on the board. Any role plugin you already use controls who can drag between which columns on the board view of the Bricks template library.

 

The post status changes back to draft through wp_update_post, which triggers the usual unpublish path. The template disappears from frontend rendering on the next request, Bricks regenerates CSS, cached page versions are invalidated, and the original publish date is preserved so republishing later keeps the canonical URL intact for SEO purposes.

 

Yes. The kanban surface uses pointer events so it works with mouse, trackpad, touch, and pen input. Long press on a card initiates the drag on touch devices, and column scrolling works even while a card is mid drag so you can move a template across columns that do not fit on the same viewport.

 

Each card drag is a single atomic post update so two simultaneous drags resolve in the order the server receives them, with the second drag winning. The board polls for status changes every few seconds so the other designer sees the change land in near real time without refreshing the view.

 

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