Organise posts with collections and tags

Use collections and tags to organise your posts to help fans find more of what they’re looking for. Collections and tags are easily discoverable through a dedicated Collections tab on your page on both web and the Patreon mobile app. This guide will go through how to use collections and tags to catalogue your work and make it easier for fans to enjoy your content.

Collections

You can think of collections as your own library where you can organise your work exactly how you want. You can create as many collections as you’d like, with up to 500 posts per collection. It’s easy to create collections from existing tags if you’ve already been using them or create new collections and select which posts to group together.

How to create your first collection

• 1. Visit the My page link from the left-hand navigation
     • If you’re not seeing My page in the navigation, you can switch profiles by clicking on your name in the bottom-left corner and selecting your creator profile
  2. Click on the Collections tab from your home page menu
  3. Click on the + Create collection button
  4. If you have used tags before, you can click on the + Create collection with tags button
     • Click on the tags you want to pull for your collection
     • Your posts will appear, and you can filter by media type or search to select which posts to include in your collection
  5. Give your collection a title and a description (optional)
  6. You can upload a collection thumbnail as a preview for fans
  7. Click the Create collection button
  8. You’ll land on the collection page, where you can add posts and manage your collection
  9. Any changes you make to a collection will auto-save
• 1. If you aren’t already on your creator page, click on the menu in the top-left corner and select My page button from the left sidebar navigation
  2. Click the Collections tab on your page
     • Not seeing your Collections tab? Click on the menu in the top-left corner click on your profile name at the bottom of the menu  select your creator profile go back to step 1
  3. Click on the + plus sign to create a new collection
  4. Add a title to your collection. We recommend you also add a cover image and a description of your collection to give fans a preview of what’s inside (Optional)
  5. Click the Create collection button
  6. You’ll land on the collection page, where you can add posts and manage your collection. Click Add posts to start adding posts to your collection

Learn more about creating and managing collections.

Editing a collection:

You can easily access and edit your collections by visiting your Library on desktop and mobile web. Be sure to follow these instructions while logged in to your creator profile. You can check which profile you’re on by clicking on your profile image in the bottom left corner of the screen.

1. Click on the Library page from the left menu
2. Click on the Collections tab from the top menu
3. Click the collection you want to edit
4. Once you’ve landed on the collection editor, you can:
   
   • Add posts
   • Reorder your posts by dragging posts or using the custom drop-down to order posts chronologically or in reverse chronological order
   • Remove a post from the collection using the X
5. You can edit the collection details by clicking the menu in the top-right corner – from here you can:
   
   • Collection title
   • Description
6. If you edit the collection details, be sure to click the Save button to go live with your edits

Tags

Tags can be anything you want them to be, whether it’s the type of content you produce, a benefit, the title of a collection of posts, a popular keyword, etc. When creating tags, consider what things tend to recur in your work and what your fans might be searching for when they’re checking your posts. When a fan clicks on a tag, they’ll be taken to a page with all of the posts.

You can add tags to your posts while creating them or later on. 

How to add tags to posts

1. Click on the Library page from the left menu
2. Within the Posts tab or Drafts tab, you can:
   
   • Search for posts by name
   • Sort by Title or Publish date
   • Filter by post type, audience or tags – click the button to Apply your filter selections
3. Tick the post you want to edit – you can select multiple posts at once
   
   • To select all posts, tick the box at the top. Click it again to deselect all
4. Once you have your selected posts, click the Edit button to add tags or remove a current tag from posts
5. Click the Save button to go live with your changes

Tips for using tags

• Each post can have up to 50 tags. Each tag can be up to 25 characters (including spaces) and can even contain emojis
• Capitalisation matters, so if you are trying to add a tag you’ve used before, make sure to use the same letter case you used to ensure these tags will be grouped together
• If you start typing a tag you’ve used in the past, your tag will auto-complete to make it easier for you
• While you can edit an individual tag, there is currently no way to edit tags across multiple posts at the same time

FAQ

• There’s no hard-set rule on this. You can use collections exclusively or use a combination of collections and tags. Tags can cover a wide set of content that might not necessarily need to be seen together, whereas you can use collections to give your fans a clear sequence or series of content that you believe should be consumed together. Collections let you curate your fans’ experience with your content.

• Absolutely! Both collections and tags you create can be easily discovered through the dedicated Collections tab.