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Card Data in Content Board

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The Content Board Screen is available in the PublishPress Planner plugin. This screen gives you an overview of the content on your site. Each post is shown as a “card” and you can choose the data to see on those card.

Introducing Content Board Cards #

There are four default data items on each card: Post Date, Title, Post Type, and Author. You can see those data items in this screenshot:

Data on Content Board cards

Customize the Card Data #

It is possible to customize the data on these cards. Click the “Customize Card Data” button:

Customize Card Data

In the modal, you can check or uncheck the boxes for all the inbuilt columns.

Customize Card data

In this screenshot below, you can see columns for Editorial Fields and Taxonomies. If you click any of these elements, they will be added as new columns on your Content Overview screen.

Card data taxonomies

This next screenshot shows the cards with the extra “Categories” data item.

Content Board Categories

Customize the Card Data (Pro) #

This feature requires the Pro version of the PublishPress Planner plugin.

This next screenshot is another example of Card Data. This example is using the “SEO score”, “Readability”, and “Focus Keywords” features in Yoast SEO. This integration is available in the Pro version of PublishPress Planner.

Yoast SEO data on the Content Board

Here's another example using the PublishPress Checklists plugin. This integration is also available in the Pro version of PublishPress Planner.

Checklists integration on the Content Board

Add Custom Metadata to Cards #

The Content Board screen allows you to add custom data. This data can use any metadata stored on your site by WordPress plugins.

  • Click the “Customize Card Data” button.
  • Click the “Add New” button.
  • Enter a “Column Title”.
  • Click the “Select Metakey” option.
  • In this screenshot below, we are selecting the “_regularprice” option. This will show the price of a WooCommerce product..
  • Click “Add Column”.
  • Click “Apply Changes”.

You will now see the “Regular Price” data has been added to your card data.

How to Reorder Card Data #

It is possible to change the order of card data in the Content Board screen

  • Click “Customize Card Data”.
  • Click the “Reorder” tab.
  • You can drag-and-drop the data into a new order.
Reorder card data