SleekView Kanban for Hotjar UX Reviews
SleekView Kanban reads pages targeted by the Hotjar WordPress plugin for heatmaps and recordings, joins each one with its post, and groups pages by a UX review state. Drag a card from New into In review to track the UX feedback loop without leaving wp-admin.
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Why Hotjar review pages fit a kanban
Hotjar is a user behavior analytics service that captures heatmaps, scroll maps, click maps, and visitor session recordings on the pages you target. The WordPress plugin embeds the Hotjar script and lets you choose which post types and pages should be tracked for heatmaps or recordings, with target rules stored as a post meta key on each included post. The actual heatmap and recording data lives in the Hotjar web app, but the targeting decisions live on the WordPress side.
The default Hotjar plugin admin screen shows a flat sortable list of pages opted into heatmap or recording capture, with no visual sense of which pages a UX team is currently reviewing, which already had a fix shipped, and which ones are still waiting for someone to open the recording in the Hotjar dashboard. The result is targeted pages piling up without anyone reviewing the data the script is collecting on them.
SleekView Kanban points at the post type opted into Hotjar tracking, groups rows by a meta key like ux_review_state, and renders one lane per value. Each card surfaces the Hotjar tracking type, the date the target was added, and the user who flagged it. Dragging a card from New into In review or Fixed writes the new value through update_post_meta, fires save hooks, and turns the Hotjar opt-in list into a real UX review pipeline.
Workflow
From Hotjar opt-in list to UX kanban
Pick the tracked post type
Pick UX state as the lane
ux_review_state. SleekView reads every value present and renders one lane per value, with the live count and color you assign per UX stage.
Pick card details to show
Enable drag-and-drop review
update_post_meta. Capabilities decide who can drop into Fixed, so analysts mark In review while engineering confirms the fix is live.
Sample board
Sample Hotjar UX review board for the team
Comparison
Default Hotjar opt-in vs SleekView Kanban
Default Hotjar opt-in list
- Hotjar opt-in admin renders pages as a flat list with no UX review state on them
- UX teams have no place to mark a page as in review or with a fix already shipped
- Tracking heatmap reviews across a sprint requires a separate spreadsheet outside
- No bulk advance across a list of opted-in pages from the Hotjar plugin admin UI
- Fixed pages mix with new opt-ins in the same sorted opt-in list across the queue
SleekView Kanban
- Reads Hotjar opt-in meta on each post so the board mirrors the active capture queue
- Groups tracked pages by any post meta key with live lane counts per UX review state
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Drag a card to advance through
update_post_metaon a chosen meta key safely - Tracking type, opt-in date, and the flagging user render directly on each card
- Capability gates restrict the Fixed lane to senior UX and engineering lead roles
Features
What SleekView Kanban gives you for Hotjar
UX review queue as lanes
Hotjar opt-in lists tell you what is being captured but nothing about who is reviewing it. SleekView turns the queue into lanes by UX review state, so analysts see what is new, in review, proposed, and already fixed at a glance.
Drag updates review state
Each card move calls update_post_meta on the chosen UX review state key. WordPress save hooks fire on every drop, so notification plugins, audit logs, and UX workflow tools continue to run on every drop.
Filter by tracking type
A filter bar narrows lanes by Hotjar tracking type, opt-in user, date range, or any post meta. Saved filters are per-user, so a heatmap analyst works one slice while a recording analyst works a different scope.
Audience
Teams running a Hotjar review loop
UX analysts and researchers
Analysts watch the New lane each day, open heatmaps and recordings for pages in In review, and drag them to Fix proposed when there is a clear improvement to ship.
Frontend engineers
Engineers filter the board to Fix proposed, ship the change, and drag the card to Fixed once production confirms the new interface is live and tracked by the next Hotjar capture period.
Product managers in product
Product managers filter by date range and category, see how many UX fixes shipped this quarter, and surface stuck pages stalled in Fix proposed during a weekly product sync.
The bigger picture
Why a kanban beats a Hotjar opt-in list
UX analytics is only useful when the recordings turn into fixes. Hotjar captures incredible amounts of user behavior data, but the WordPress plugin's opt-in admin only tells you which pages the script is currently tracking, not which ones a UX team has actually reviewed and shipped a fix for. The result is a growing list of heatmap and recording targets that nobody is ever opening in the Hotjar dashboard, with the team losing track of which interfaces have already been improved and which ones still need attention.
A kanban board fixes that shape. The opt-in list becomes the source of cards, lanes capture the UX review state, and drag-and-drop turns a review decision into a gesture that calls update_post_meta and fires the WordPress save hooks. Fix proposed becomes a clear handoff lane to engineering, Fixed becomes the audit trail of every UX win the team shipped, and the New lane stays short because pages do not pile up unreviewed.
Questions
Common questions about SleekView Kanban for Hotjar
SleekView reads and writes WordPress post meta on the posts opted into Hotjar tracking. It does not call the Hotjar web app API. The Hotjar heatmaps and recordings continue to live in the Hotjar dashboard, and the kanban tracks the WordPress review workflow on top of them.
Yes. The card front can include a direct link to the Hotjar dashboard page for the URL using a URL pattern you configure on the board. The link opens the right heatmap or recording so an analyst goes from card to data in one click during a review.
Dragging only updates the chosen post meta key through update_post_meta. The Hotjar opt-in meta stays exactly as the Hotjar plugin wrote it, so the page continues to be tracked by the Hotjar script while your UX review state advances on top of it.
Yes. SleekView supports per-user filters on any post meta or post author key, so each analyst sees only the pages where their user ID matches an owner meta value. The same board configuration powers every analyst view and leads see the unfiltered version.
If the Hotjar opt-in meta is removed from the post, the row disappears from the board on the next page load because the source query filters by that meta key. The post itself stays in WordPress and the post meta history is preserved for any later audit work.
Yes. Rows with no value for the lane meta key fall into the configured default lane, usually New. As soon as someone drops a card into another lane the value is written, and the card moves accordingly on every subsequent page load for the UX team.
Yes. The board can show every Hotjar opt-in regardless of type, with the tracking type visible on each card. Filter the board by tracking type if you want one board for heatmaps and another for recordings, or keep them in one view for a small UX team.
SleekView reads and writes the existing WordPress post tables and Hotjar opt-in post meta without adding shadow tables for UX data. View configuration sits in a small options row, so uninstalling leaves every Hotjar opt-in and post meta exactly where it was on save.
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