Gratis Project

Overview

Gratis Project is a lightweight project and task manager with Kanban-style boards. It adds Projects and Tasks as content types, groups tasks by status (To Do, In Progress, Review, Done), and lets you embed a read-only board on any page or post. It is a self-hosted alternative to Trello or Asana for small teams.

Managing projects and tasks

1. Open Projects in the admin sidebar and use Add Project to create a project.
2. Under the same menu open Tasks to add tasks; each task has a Task Details meta box for its project, assignee, priority and due date.
3. Set each task’s Status (To Do, In Progress, Review, Done) using the Status taxonomy box — these become the board columns.

Opening the settings screen

1. Go to Projects → Settings (URL: /wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=gratis_project&page=gratis-project-settings).
2. Choose your default, then click Save settings.

Settings

• Default task priority — the priority applied to new tasks before you change them. Choose from low, normal, high or urgent (default normal).

Task details

The Task Details meta box on each task stores the fields the board reads:

• Project — the project the task belongs to, so a board can be scoped to a single project.
• Assignee — the WordPress user responsible for the task.
• Priority — low, normal, high or urgent; shown as a label on the board card.
• Due date — the target completion date, shown on the card.

Kanban board shortcode

Embed a read-only board, grouped into status columns, on any page or post:

• Board —

  To Do

  LaunchNormal

  SEO auditNormal

  Set up cacheNormal

  In Progress

  Implement homepageHigh

  Design mockupsHigh

  Review

  No tasks.

  Done

  No tasks.

  shows tasks for one project. Replace ID with the project’s numeric ID; omit the project attribute to show tasks from every project.

  To Do

  LaunchNormal

  SEO auditNormal

  Set up cacheNormal

  In Progress

  Implement homepageHigh

  Design mockupsHigh

  Review

  No tasks.

  Done

  No tasks.

  works as an alias.

Recommended starting point

• Create a project, then add a few tasks and set each task’s Status so the columns fill in.
• Set the Default task priority to match how your team works.
• Add

  To Do

  LaunchNormal

  SEO auditNormal

  Set up cacheNormal

  In Progress

  Implement homepageHigh

  Design mockupsHigh

  Review

  No tasks.

  Done

  No tasks.

  to an internal page to view the board.