SleekView Kanban for Modula Galleries
Modula stores each gallery as a modula-gallery custom post with images, layout and lightbox settings. SleekView Kanban turns those posts into draggable cards grouped by status or album, so editors can move a shoot from upload to live without scrolling a flat list table.
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Group Modula galleries by status or album
Every Modula gallery is a modula-gallery custom post with the image list, layout type and lightbox config stored in postmeta. The post_status column tracks draft, pending, future and publish, which is the same data that powers the WordPress publish dropdown. SleekView Kanban reads those rows and renders one card per gallery in the lane that matches its status.
The default Modula admin is a list table with thumbnails and a few sort columns. It works to find one gallery by name, but it cannot tell you where the bottleneck is. Eighteen galleries waiting for a photographer's selects, six in client review and four scheduled for the weekend are all mixed into one long scroll with no visual cue.
SleekView Kanban makes the pipeline visible. Lanes show counts, cards show the cover image, image count, layout type and last edited date, and dragging a card writes post_status back to WordPress through standard hooks. Filters on top of the board let an editor see only galleries from a single album, photographer or campaign tag.
Workflow
From Modula library to kanban
Pick Modula as the data source
Group by status or by album category
Choose the card fields that matter
Drag a card to change status
Sample board
How the Modula board looks in use
Comparison
Default Modula admin vs SleekView Kanban
Default Modula admin
- Flat list table mixes draft, pending and live galleries with no visual sense of progress.
- Changing post status means clicking into each gallery, picking a value, saving and reloading.
- No counts per status, so a swelling backlog in review stays invisible until the week slips.
- Album, photographer and client filters require URL hacks or another filter plugin.
- Spotting a stalled gallery means scrolling and reading dates, not glancing at a lane.
SleekView Kanban
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Reads
modula-galleryposts directly fromwp_posts, no extra sync layer. -
Group by
post_status, the Modula album taxonomy or any custom meta field. -
Drag and drop writes status back through
transition_post_statusand friends. - Card thumbnails come from the first Modula image so the board reads like a contact sheet.
- Stacked filters let one photographer see only their own draft and review galleries.
Features
What SleekView Kanban gives you for Modula
Contact sheet style cards
Each Modula card carries the first image of the gallery, the image count and the layout type. The board feels like a contact sheet, so spotting a gallery that needs more selects or a layout that is still on the default grid takes a glance instead of a click.
Album and campaign lanes
Group by the Modula album taxonomy and each album becomes a lane. Group by a campaign tag or client custom field and the board reorganises around the project. The same set of galleries can power several boards at once, each tuned to a different team.
Status writes back live
Dragging a card from In review to Scheduled calls wp_update_post with the new status, fires the standard hooks and writes a scheduled publish date if needed. Caching, CDN purge and notification plugins all run as if the status changed from the post editor.
Audience
Where Modula studios use kanban view
Wedding and family photographers
Move a wedding from raw upload through selects, retouch and client review into Scheduled and Live. Each lane shows a count, so the studio sees at a glance how many couples are waiting on selects and which weekend is already covered.
Hospitality and venue galleries
Hotels, restaurants and venues group galleries by property. Each lane is a property and dragging a gallery between lanes assigns it to a different listing, with the change persisted as a taxonomy term on the underlying post.
Editorial photo desks
Editors split lanes by assignment, edit, fact check and publish. Filtering by section keeps a single editor focused on their own galleries, while the desk lead sees the whole board and rebalances assignments before deadlines slip.
The bigger picture
Why a kanban board fits Modula production
A Modula gallery rarely starts and finishes in one sitting. A photographer uploads raws, a retoucher cuts selects, a client signs off, and only then does the gallery actually go live. The default Modula admin shows all of that as rows in a list, which is fine for finding a single shoot by name but useless for the production process.
Studios end up tracking that process somewhere else, in a spreadsheet or a chat channel or a notes app, and the moment something is published or scheduled the external board is out of date. SleekView Kanban makes the board the source of truth. Cards are real Modula posts, lanes are real post status values or albums, and dragging a card writes back through the same hooks WordPress uses internally.
Counts per lane make the bottleneck obvious. If nine galleries are waiting on the retoucher and four are sitting in client review, the studio lead can rebalance the week before any deadlines slip. Filters layered on top of the board let a single photographer see only their own work, while the studio lead sees the entire pipeline at once.
The result is a board that looks like a contact sheet and a workflow that matches how studios actually run shoots.
Questions
Common questions about SleekView Kanban for Modula
No. SleekView reads the modula-gallery post type Modula already registers, with the standard post_status column and the existing image config in postmeta. No new tables, no new fields and no migration step are required to bring an existing library onto a board.
SleekView calls wp_publish_post, which flips post_status to publish and clears the scheduled date. The same hooks fire that core uses, so any caching plugin, CDN purge or notification automation runs exactly as it would from the standard post editor.
Yes. The group-by column can be any registered taxonomy or custom field on the gallery. Studios that already organise around albums often pick the Modula album taxonomy. Marketing teams more often pick a campaign tag so each lane maps to one launch.
Yes. SleekView reads the first image from the saved Modula config, so reordering images in the gallery editor updates the card thumbnail on the next board render. If a featured image is set on the post, that takes precedence.
Yes. A shortcode and a block render any saved board on the front end. Filter the board to a single client's tag and disable drag, and the client sees a read-only progress view of their own galleries while the studio keeps full edit access in the dashboard.
Lanes paginate and lazy load card content as you scroll. The board only fetches the fields it needs for the card, not the full Modula image config, so even a Live lane with tens of thousands of entries renders quickly on a standard hosting plan.
Yes. SleekView calls the same edit_post and publish_posts checks core uses. An author can move their own draft into Pending review, but cannot drag a card to Live unless their role has the matching capability assigned by an administrator.
Yes. Each board is a saved configuration with its own group-by, fields and filters. A studio can keep a production board grouped by post status next to a client board grouped by project tag, both reading the same underlying galleries with no duplication.
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