Promotion Events Calendar registers an event custom post type with start and end meta plus a promo code, a category, and a banner image per row. The standard WordPress post_status field controls whether the promo is draft, scheduled, published, or private. The default admin screen is a list table, which works for editing one row at a time and falls apart the moment a marketing team needs to see all live promotions side by side with the next batch already queued.

SleekView reads the same event post type and joins the start, end, promo code, and category meta keys. Flip the view to Kanban and pick post_status as the group column. SleekView builds one column per status, draft, future, publish, and private, and renders one card per promo with the title, the start date, the promo code, and the author on the front. Banner images and full descriptions stay in the detail drawer so the board front stays scannable.

Drag a promo from Draft into Future and SleekView updates the row through wp_update_post, which fires transition_post_status and save_post. Any Promotion Events Calendar widget or feed that already reads the post type refreshes on the next render with the new status, the same way Quick Edit changes propagate today.

Marketing teams almost always run a promo pipeline that looks like a kanban in their heads. There are promos in draft waiting on creative, promos scheduled for the next month, live promos running today, and private promos for partners and staff. The Promotion Events Calendar admin flattens those stages into one list table where the only way to read the pipeline is to click filter pills.

SleekView reads the same post type and gives the team the board view they were already drawing on a whiteboard. The pipeline is visible at a glance, drag and drop updates post_status through the standard WordPress path, and private promos stay visibly separate from public ones so they never leak. The frontend calendar still renders from the same post type, so nothing else has to change for the board to work.