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SleekView Kanban for Elementor

SleekView reads your Elementor templates and Elementor-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 Elementor

Why Elementor template libraries need a board

Elementor stores every saved template as an elementor_library custom post type entry inside wp_posts, with the actual Elementor data serialized into wp_postmeta under _elementor_data. Regular Elementor-built pages live in wp_posts as standard page or post entries, with their builder data in the same _elementor_data meta key.

The default admin at Templates > Saved Templates shows a paginated list which is fine for ten or twenty templates but bottlenecks the moment your site has dozens of sections, popups, headers, footers, and global widgets in active rotation across multiple landing pages and editorial templates.

SleekView reads from elementor_library and from any other post type where Elementor is the active editor, and surfaces every column as a possible grouping axis. The natural starting point is post_status with draft, pending, publish, and trash, but most teams add a custom design_review meta field with values like wireframe, design, dev review, qa, and shipped, and group by that to mirror the real design workflow that runs from concept through launch on the live site.

Workflow

From Elementor template list to status board in four steps

1

Connect Elementor templates

Pick the Elementor template library, pages, or any post type that uses the Elementor editor. SleekView auto-detects every meta key including _elementor_template_type, _elementor_edit_mode, the kit identifier, and any custom taxonomies your team uses to tag templates by section.
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 stage meta field or the Elementor template type works just as well as the column axis.
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 kit assignment. Cards stay compact at a glance and expand on click to show every Elementor meta field on the underlying template or page.
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 any caching, asset regeneration via the Elementor CSS engine, and analytics tied to publishing stay in sync. Lock columns for read-only review states if needed.

Sample board

Sample Elementor template design board

A live preview of an Elementor 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
23
New homepage hero section v3
Sarah Mitchell, header type
Pricing page comparison layout
James Park, section type
Footer redesign with newsletter
Priya Shah, footer type
Pending review
8
Product launch landing page
Mark Lee, awaiting brand sign off
Customer story template
Emma Carter, dev qa pending
Cookie banner popup design
Tom Wright, legal review
Scheduled
5
Black Friday landing page
Linda Park, queued for Nov 25
Year recap blog template
Daniel Kim, queued for Dec 28
Holiday promo popup
Aisha Khan, queued for Dec 01
Published
168
Default page template current
Sarah Mitchell, used site wide
Standard blog post template
James Park, on every post
Global header v2 in production
Priya Shah, current header

Comparison

Default Elementor template list versus SleekView Kanban

Default Elementor templates 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 templates
  • Designer handoffs rely on private comments which are invisible from the Elementor list view

SleekView Kanban

  • Reads directly from elementor_library 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, _elementor_template_type, or any custom meta
  • Card face accepts up to six fields including template type and kit assignment
  • Works with Elementor Pro Theme Builder, Popup Builder, and Loop Builder without extra config

Features

What SleekView Kanban gives you for Elementor

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.

Drag-and-drop writes back to posts

Moving a card calls the standard WordPress post update API which fires every transition hook, the Elementor 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 extra archive columns only to admins. Visibility rules use WordPress capabilities so they line up with the role plugin your team already uses for the Elementor editor access.

Audience

Common Elementor template 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.

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 Elementor templates list

Elementor is great at letting designers build beautiful pages in the 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 Elementor becomes the design system for an entire marketing team with multiple stages and multiple designers handling concepts, builds, qa, and launches in parallel across landing pages and global blocks.

A kanban board fixes the part Elementor 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, the Elementor CSS engine, and any analytics tied to publishing keep working exactly as they did before.

Questions

Common questions about SleekView Kanban for Elementor

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. The Elementor CSS engine regenerates assets, caching plugins invalidate, and any analytics tied to publishing react exactly as if a designer moved the template through the regular Elementor admin screen.

 

Yes. Any taxonomy, custom meta field, or the Elementor 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.

 

Yes. SleekView accepts any post type with the Elementor edit mode set as a board source. You can run separate boards for the Elementor library and for regular pages, or combine them into one master board if you want a single design pipeline view across your entire Elementor-driven content.

 

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 Elementor editor, so designers without publish capability cannot drag cards into the Published column. Any role plugin you already use such as Members or PublishPress Capabilities controls who can drag between which columns on the board.

 

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, the Elementor CSS engine regenerates, cached page versions are invalidated, and the original publish date is preserved so republishing later keeps the canonical URL.

 

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 manually.

 

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