WP Event Calendar registers an event custom post type and stores start, end, and all-day flags as post meta on each row. The All Events admin screen is a normal WordPress list table with title, date, author, and status columns, plus the standard publish, scheduled, draft, and trash filter pills above the table. Recurring events are handled through meta, not separate child posts, so each series is one row.

SleekView reads the same event rows from wp_posts and joins the start, end, all-day, and location 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 trash if you want it, and renders one card per event with the title, the start date, and the organiser on the front. Recurring series stay as a single card, not duplicated per occurrence.

Drag a card from Draft to Future and SleekView updates the post through wp_update_post, which fires the standard transition_post_status and save_post hooks so the WP Event Calendar shortcodes and widgets refresh on the next render. Capability checks match the All Events screen, so a contributor can only move their own drafts and an editor sees the full pipeline.

WP Event Calendar is a clean custom post type sitting on top of WordPress core. Every event is a post, every date is meta, every status uses the normal post_status field. The default All Events screen is a perfectly fine list table for editing single rows, but it is the wrong shape for a team running a real events programme.

A small marketing team needs to see at a glance how many drafts are still missing covers, how many events are queued for the next four weeks, and which series are about to fall off the schedule. SleekView reads the same event rows and presents them as a board with post_status as the column field, the start date and location on the card front, and drag and drop writeback through the standard wp_update_post path. The All Events screen still works for single-row editing.

The board adds the pipeline view that a flat list cannot show.