SleekView Kanban for Timely
Timely stores every event as a tribe_events compatible post (and as timely_event on its own plugin) with WordPress post statuses like draft, pending, published, and cancelled. SleekView Kanban renders one card per event and groups them into columns you drag cards between.
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Read Timely events as a board, not a long admin list
Timely tracks every event as a custom post with standard WordPress post_status values like draft, pending, publish, private, and trash, plus the plugin's own meta for start, end, venue, organiser, and ticket links. The default Timely admin lists events in a long table sorted by event date with status visible only as a small column label per row.
SleekView Kanban reads the same Timely posts and groups them into columns by status. The natural grouping is the publishing state, so the board shows Draft, Pending review, Published, and Cancelled as separate stacks. Each card surfaces the event title, the start datetime, the venue, the organiser, and any ticket link your workflow uses. Counts at the top of each column update live as you drag cards through the editorial stages.
Dragging a card writes the new status back to the source row. Moving a draft into Pending review notifies the editor, moving to Published makes the event visible on the public calendar instantly, and moving to Cancelled (a custom status the board can register) flips the event without losing the record. SleekView keeps an audit log per card so editorial changes are traceable back to the user who made them.
Workflow
From Timely event posts to a draggable board
Connect SleekView to Timely
Pick the status column to group by
post_status as the grouping column. SleekView builds one column per distinct value, including any custom statuses your editorial flow has registered.
Choose what shows on each card
Enable drag to update status
post_status. Editor notifications fire through the standard transition_post_status hooks and the public Timely calendar reflects the change without a manual refresh.
Sample board
Sample Timely events board
Comparison
Default Timely admin vs SleekView Kanban
Default Timely admin
- Events admin is a long table sorted by event date with status as a small label per row
- No way to drag events from draft into pending review or published directly from a board
- Editorial assignments and review owners hide in custom meta and are not surfaced on the list
- Bulk status changes work through the WordPress bulk-edit dropdown but not as a visual flow
- Cancelled events need either trashing or a custom workflow that the default screen does not show
SleekView Kanban
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Groups Timely event posts on one board by
post_statuswith live counts per column - Drag a card to flip the event from Draft to Pending review or Published through standard hooks
- Card front carries event title, start datetime, venue, organiser, and ticket link in one glance
- Works with the plugin's taxonomies and any custom editorial meta your workflow has added
- Audit log records every drag with user, timestamp, and previous status for editorial review
Features
What SleekView Kanban gives you for Timely
Real event cards
One card per Timely event post with the title, start datetime, venue, organiser, and any editorial meta you read every day, ready to triage without opening the record.
Drag to update status
Moving a card writes the new post_status back to the underlying post, fires the standard transition_post_status hooks, and updates the public Timely calendar without a manual refresh.
Per-role boards
Scope the board so writers see Draft and Pending review only, editors see all columns, and producers get a view focused on Published and Cancelled. The underlying data is shared.
Audience
Who runs Timely on a kanban board
Editorial teams
Writers drop new event drafts into Pending review, editors drag the approved ones into Published, and producers handle Cancelled when a venue falls through. One screen replaces a chain of emails.
Venue coordinators
Open the board on a tablet at the venue meeting, walk through the next month of Published events by date, and drag any cancellations into the Cancelled column with a note for the public site.
Promotions teams
Filter the board to Published events for the next 14 days to plan the newsletter and social calendar in one pass, with all the dates and venues already on the card.
The bigger picture
Timely event programmes deserve a board
A Timely calendar can carry hundreds of events across editorial and venue teams. The default admin is still a long table sorted by event date with status as a small column. Seeing how many drafts are waiting on an editor, how many approved events still need a venue confirmation, and how many of last month's cancellations need a refund note takes a filter, a sort, and a count in your head.
SleekView Kanban turns the same data into a board with Draft, Pending review, Published, and Cancelled as columns, a count per column at the top, and a card per event with the fields the editorial and venue teams actually read. Drag a card to flip the status and the post updates on the row. The Timely admin, the public calendar, and any subscriber email list all read the new value because SleekView writes to the source row, not to a parallel table.
The result is one screen for the editorial work and the venue coordination, with the Timely back office still available when you need the long form record.
Questions
Common questions about SleekView Kanban for Timely
Yes. SleekView reads the configured event post type regardless of which Timely flavour you use, including the self-hosted plugin and the WordPress mirror of a hosted Timely calendar. The grouping column is post_status in both cases.
Yes. Dropping a card into the Published column writes publish to post_status on the underlying Timely post, which fires the same transition_post_status hooks the default admin does. The public Timely calendar reads the new value and the event appears without a manual refresh.
Yes. SleekView reads the distinct values present in post_status and renders one kanban column per value. If you have registered a custom post status like Cancelled, Postponed, or Sold out through a snippet or extension, those appear next to the built-in WordPress statuses without extra setup.
Yes. Saved kanban views are scoped per role and per capability, so writers can see Draft and Pending review only, editors can see all columns, and contributors can drag only their own posts. The WordPress capability checks on edit_post still apply on every drag.
The board can show events across every calendar or be filtered to a single calendar from the SleekView filter bar. For a multisite editorial team you can save one board per site or per editorial team, with each saved view scoping reads and writes to the events in its scope.
Yes. The card front is configurable and surfaces the event title, start datetime, venue, organiser, category, ticket link, and any custom meta you have added. Recurring events show the next occurrence on the front with a small indicator that the series repeats.
Yes. Every drag writes a row to the SleekView activity log with the event ID, the previous status, the new status, the user who made the change, and the time. The log is filterable per event so reconciling a publishing question after the fact is a single search rather than a postmortem across screens.
Yes. SleekView only loads cards for the columns currently visible and paginates older events into a scroll-on-demand tail. The events admin and the board read the same underlying posts so neither slows down as the archive grows.
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