Frontend Submission Manager lets users submit posts from the front end and stores each submission as a standard WordPress post with a status of pending, publish, or any custom status the plugin adds. Categories, tags, and any custom meta the form captured live on the post itself. The default moderation screen is the WordPress posts list filtered by status, which is fine for one or two pending posts but loses every signal about review queue depth and reviewer ownership.

SleekView reads the relevant post type directly, joins to post meta to expose every captured field, and surfaces all of them as possible grouping axes. The natural one is the post status which moves between pending, approved, published, and rejected, but you can also group by submitting author, by category, or by a custom Moderation tier meta field added through the plugin filters. Cards show the submission title, the author, the post type, and a snippet of the body.

Dragging a card from one column to another writes the new status back through the standard wp_update_post path, so any role-based moderation rules, email notifications, and integrations wired to post status transitions continue to fire correctly. Trashed posts and drafts the user never finished are filtered out of active moderation boards by default but can be exposed on a dedicated review board for the team that handles those edge cases.

Frontend Submission Manager is great at letting users contribute content, but its admin moderation screen is just the standard WordPress posts table filtered by status. That works when a small site gets one pending post a day. It stops working the moment you are running a multi-author publication or a community section with dozens of pending posts queueing up and a team of moderators trying to keep up.

A kanban board fixes the part the plugin was never designed to fix: review queue visibility. You see at a glance how deep each column is, who has been sitting in Pending the longest, and what the team approved or rejected since yesterday. Status changes happen with a drag instead of clicking the publish dropdown on every post, which compounds quickly once you are processing dozens of submissions a day.

Because every column maps back to the standard WordPress post status, the board is not a parallel system that drifts. Everything you see on the board is exactly what email notifications, webhook integrations, and the existing moderation rules already read through the standard post transition hooks. The end result is a moderation admin that finally matches how editorial teams actually work.