SleekView Kanban for FooGallery
FooGallery stores each gallery as a foogallery custom post with template, theme and image config in postmeta. SleekView Kanban renders those posts as draggable cards grouped by status, album or template, so editors can move a shoot from draft to scheduled in seconds.
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Group FooGallery posts by status, album or template
Every FooGallery is a foogallery custom post with image attachments, the chosen template, theme and lightbox options stored in postmeta. The standard WordPress post_status column tracks draft, pending, future and publish, which means the data needed for a kanban board is already there.
The default FooGallery admin is a list table with thumbnails and a few sortable columns. It is fine for finding a single gallery but it does not surface the production pipeline. Eleven galleries waiting on selects, four in review, six scheduled for the launch week and three hundred already live are all shown as one long scroll with no visual cue about where the team is stuck.
SleekView Kanban lays that data out as lanes. Cards show the cover image, image count, FooGallery template name and last edit. Dragging a card writes post_status back to WordPress through standard hooks, so caching, CDN purge and notification plugins respond just like they do from the post editor.
Workflow
From FooGallery library to a board
Pick FooGallery as the data source
Group by post status, album or template
Add the card fields you triage on
Drag to update post status or album
Sample board
How the FooGallery board looks in use
Comparison
Default FooGallery admin vs SleekView Kanban
Default FooGallery admin
- Flat list table mixes draft, pending and live galleries with no visual pipeline cue.
- Updating a status means opening each gallery, changing the dropdown, then saving.
- No counts per status, so a swelling selects or review backlog stays invisible too long.
- Filtering by album, template or photographer requires URL parameters or extra plugins.
- Bulk moves rely on the WordPress bulk action menu, one screen at a time.
SleekView Kanban
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Reads the
foogallerypost type directly with no sync or shadow tables. -
Group by
post_status, FooGallery album taxonomy or template meta. -
Drag and drop updates the post through
wp_update_postand standard hooks. - Card thumbnails come from the FooGallery cover image meta for a contact sheet feel.
- Filters narrow the board to a single photographer, album or template at a time.
Features
What SleekView Kanban gives you for FooGallery
Cover image cards
Each FooGallery card carries the cover image, image count and template name. A board feels like a contact sheet rather than a wall of titles, so a photo editor scanning the Selects lane can see in one glance which galleries are ready to push forward.
Template and theme lanes
Group by template name and each lane becomes a template. Migrating away from the legacy default template? The board makes it obvious how many galleries still use it, and dragging a card to a new template lane writes the template meta back to the gallery.
Status writes through standard hooks
Dragging a card to Scheduled flips post_status to future and writes a publish date. The standard transition_post_status, save_post and FooGallery hooks all fire, so caching, CDN purge and any notification plugin react exactly as they do from the post editor.
Audience
Where FooGallery studios use kanban view
Weddings and lifestyle photographers
Move each shoot from upload through selects, retouch and client review into Scheduled and Live. Each lane carries a live count, so the studio can see at a glance which weekend is fully prepared and which still needs a hero gallery confirmed.
Product and brand catalogues
Brand teams group galleries by campaign tag and drag them through approval gates. A launch manager sees exactly which lookbook is sitting in legal review and which is already scheduled for the launch date without leaving the WordPress dashboard.
Editorial photo desks
Editors group galleries by section folder and use the board for triage. Filtering by section keeps an editor focused on their own work while the desk lead sees the entire pipeline and rebalances assignments before deadlines slip.
The bigger picture
Why a board fits FooGallery production
FooGallery is a great place to render a gallery, but the admin is not designed to be a production board. The list table answers the question what galleries exist. It does not answer the question what should we ship next or where is the team blocked.
Most studios end up tracking that elsewhere, in a spreadsheet or a chat channel, and the moment anything changes in WordPress the external board falls out of date. SleekView Kanban makes the board the source of truth. Cards are real FooGallery posts.
Lanes are real post status values, real album taxonomy terms or template meta values. Counts per lane expose backlogs in seconds, drag and drop writes back through the same WordPress hooks the post editor uses, and filters layered on top of the board let each team focus on their own slice without losing the shared library underneath. The board feels like a contact sheet rather than a database admin, which is the view photo teams have always wanted.
Combined with the FooGallery layouts on the public side, the studio gets one system that both edits and ships the work, with the workflow visible at every step.
Questions
Common questions about SleekView Kanban for FooGallery
Both. SleekView reads the foogallery post type and its standard meta, which exist in either version. FooGallery Pro features like dynamic galleries and protection are additive, so they continue to work without any extra configuration on the board side.
SleekView calls wp_publish_post, which flips post_status to publish and clears the scheduled date. The standard hooks fire, so caching plugins, CDN purge and FooGallery's own image cache update exactly as they do from the post editor publish flow.
Yes. Pick the template meta key as the group-by column and each lane becomes one FooGallery template name. This is handy during a template migration because the lane counts make it obvious how many galleries still use the older template.
Yes. SleekView reads the FooGallery cover image meta on every board render. Updating the cover from inside the gallery editor changes the card thumbnail on the next reload, and a featured image set at the post level takes precedence if both exist.
Yes. A shortcode and a block render any saved board on the front end. You can scope the board to a single client tag and disable drag, so the client sees a read-only progress view of their own galleries while the studio keeps full edit access in admin.
Yes. SleekView honours the edit_post and publish_posts capability checks core uses for any post type. An author can move their own draft to Pending review, but cannot drag a card to Live unless their role has the matching capability assigned.
Lanes paginate and lazy load card content as you scroll. The board only fetches the fields shown on each card, not the full FooGallery image config, so even a Live lane with thousands of galleries renders quickly on a standard hosting plan.
Yes. Each board is a saved configuration with its own group-by, fields and filters. A production board grouped by post status can sit beside a campaign board grouped by tag, both pointing at the same galleries with no duplication of underlying data.
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