SleekView Kanban for MetaSlider
MetaSlider stores each slider as a ml-slider custom post with slides linked through taxonomy and meta. SleekView Kanban turns those posts into draggable cards grouped by status, theme or campaign, so marketing teams can move a hero slider from draft to live in seconds.
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Group MetaSlider sliders by status, theme or campaign
MetaSlider stores every slider as a ml-slider custom post, with slides attached through a taxonomy and per-slide meta. The slider itself carries the chosen theme, transition type and dimensions in postmeta, while post_status on the slider tracks draft, pending, future and publish like any WordPress post. That is exactly the data a kanban board needs.
The default MetaSlider admin is a tabbed editor focused on building a single slider. It is excellent for editing slides one at a time, but it does not surface the full library across statuses. Marketing teams that run a dozen campaign sliders end up tracking which is live and which is in review in a separate document.
SleekView Kanban lays the slider library out as lanes. Cards show the cover slide, slide count, theme and last edit. Dragging a card writes post_status back to WordPress through standard hooks, so caching plugins and CDN purge plugins react exactly the way they do from the slider editor.
Workflow
From MetaSlider library to a board
Point at the ml-slider post type
Group by post status or slider theme
Pick the fields each card should show
Drag a card to update its status
Sample board
How the MetaSlider board looks in use
Comparison
Default MetaSlider admin vs SleekView Kanban
Default MetaSlider admin
- Tabbed editor is great for one slider at a time but hides the rest of the library.
- No visual cue for which sliders are draft, scheduled or live across the whole library.
- Status changes need a click into each slider, a dropdown change and a save per item.
- No counts per stage, so a swelling review backlog stays invisible until the launch slips.
- Filtering by theme or campaign needs URL hacks or another plugin layer entirely.
SleekView Kanban
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Reads
ml-sliderposts directly with no shadow tables or sync layer. -
Group by
post_status, theme meta or any campaign taxonomy. -
Drag and drop writes status back through
wp_update_postand standard hooks. - Card cover uses the first slide image, so the board reads like a campaign moodboard.
- Stacked filters let one marketer see only their own campaign sliders.
Features
What SleekView Kanban gives you for MetaSlider
Cover slide thumbnails
Each card carries the first slide image, the slide count and the chosen theme. The board reads like a moodboard rather than a wall of titles, so a marketing lead scanning the In review lane can see which sliders are visually ready to ship.
Campaign calendar lanes
Group by a campaign tag and each lane becomes one campaign. The board reorganises around launches rather than statuses, so a launch manager can see exactly which sliders are confirmed for the launch day and which still need design review.
Live writes back to WordPress
Moving a card to Scheduled flips post_status to future and writes a publish date. Standard transition_post_status, save_post and MetaSlider hooks fire, so caching, CDN purges and notification plugins react the way they always do from the slider editor.
Audience
Where MetaSlider teams use kanban view
Marketing campaign sliders
Marketing teams group sliders by campaign tag and drag them through draft, design review, copy review and scheduled. A launch manager sees at a glance which sliders are confirmed for the launch day without leaving the WordPress dashboard.
Ecommerce homepage rotation
Ecommerce teams rotate hero sliders for sales, new arrivals and seasonal promos. Lanes split by promo type make it obvious which sliders are queued for the weekend sale and which legacy promos can be archived after the campaign.
Publisher home banners
Publishers run multiple sliders across sections. Each lane becomes a section, dragging a slider between lanes reassigns it, and counts per section surface where editorial attention is needed before the front page is regenerated.
The bigger picture
Why a board view fits MetaSlider workflows
MetaSlider was built around a single-slider editor, which is exactly the right tool for designing one slideshow. Where it falls short is showing the library at a glance. A site that uses sliders heavily quickly accumulates twenty or thirty of them, mixed across draft, pending, scheduled and live, and the standard admin offers no visual pipeline view.
Marketing teams end up keeping a separate sheet that lists which slider belongs to which campaign and what state it is in, and the sheet drifts out of date the moment a slider is scheduled or published from WordPress. SleekView Kanban makes the library navigable as a board. Cards are real MetaSlider posts.
Lanes are real post status values, real theme meta values or campaign taxonomy terms. Drag and drop writes the status change back through the same hooks the slider editor uses, so caching, CDN purges and notifications all react as if the change happened in the standard UI. Counts per lane surface review or design backlogs immediately, and filters layered on top of the board let a single marketer focus on the campaign they own without losing the shared library.
The result is a campaign moodboard and a workflow tool in one view.
Questions
Common questions about SleekView Kanban for MetaSlider
Both. SleekView reads the ml-slider post type and standard meta that exist in either version. MetaSlider Pro themes, advanced effects and scheduling extensions continue to work because their data lives in the same tables the board already reads.
SleekView calls the standard WordPress publish flow, which fires the hooks MetaSlider listens to. The HTML cache for the slider is rebuilt on the next request, and any page cache or CDN purge plugin reacts as it does when the change is made from the slider editor.
Yes. Pick the theme meta key as the group-by column and each lane becomes one MetaSlider theme. Pick the transition meta key for one lane per transition type. The same board library can power both layouts on different SleekView boards.
Yes. SleekView reads the first slide image on every render, so reordering slides inside the MetaSlider editor changes the card cover on the next board refresh. If a featured image is set on the slider post, that takes precedence as the cover.
Yes. A shortcode and a block render any saved board on the front end. Scope the board to a single campaign tag and disable drag, so the client sees a read-only progress view of their own sliders while internal teams keep full edit access in admin.
Yes. SleekView honours the standard edit_post and publish_posts checks core uses. An author can move their own draft slider to Pending review, but cannot drag a card to Live unless their role has the publish capability assigned by an administrator.
Lanes paginate and lazy load card content as you scroll. The board fetches only the fields needed for each card, not the full MetaSlider config, so even a Live lane with hundreds of sliders renders quickly on standard WordPress hosting plans.
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 and a theme migration board grouped by template, all reading the same posts.
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