How to make a post

Posts are where your audio, video, image, and written creations live for your members to enjoy. Posts are an instant and direct connection to your community. You can publish posts for select tiers, all of your paid members, or publicly for your free members and anyone who lands on your Patreon page.

Posts are accessible from your members' recent feed, your page, and via email notifications for members who opt-in. If you've enabled our RSS feature, your audio post content will also populate members’ private RSS feeds.

How to make a new post

• Make sure you follow this guide while in your creator profile. You can switch to your creator profile by clicking your profile picture in the bottom left corner and clicking on your creator profile.

  1. While logged in to your Patreon account, click on the Create button from the left-hand navigation while logged into your Patreon account ◦ If you also sell digital products, you’ll need to select Post from the dropdown list

  2. Choose your Post type — this could be a text, image, video, link, or audio post. If you'd like to open your draft in another tab, you can right-click or ctrl+click and select Open in another tab

  3. Once in the post editor, create a post title (required) and add your content. Optional post features include: uploading attachment files for your members to download and adding tags to your posts to help you stay organized

  4. Click the Next button to set your Publish options. Let us know to whom you’d like the post to be viewable (required). Pro tip: Making posts for everyone to view is a great way to give free members and fans an idea of what paid members can access!

     • Other publish options include
       • Setting early access
       • Adding a text preview
       • Scheduling the post
       • Adding the post to a collection
       • Disabling comments

       Adding your post to a collection helps members find more of what they’re looking for. You can think of collections as your own library where you can get to organize your work however you want. Learn more about creating a collection

  5.  You can preview your post before publishing by clicking the View button in the bottom right corner
  6. When you’re done, click Publish, or Schedule if you’d like the post to be published at a later time

• Make sure you follow this guide while in your creator profile. You can switch to your creator profile by tapping your profile picture in the top right corner of the home screen to use the profile switcher. This switcher button allows you to adjust your view of the app between your creator view and your member view.

  1. While logged in to your creator profile, tap on the Make a Post button

  2. You can embed a link or tap the Add Media button to choose an image or video from your phone camera or phone library

     • When creating a post, you can also add inline images by clicking on the image icon in the bottom format bar

  3. When you're happy with your post, tap Next

  4. Tap Who can see this post to bring up your options: Everyone, All members, or Select tiers

     • Note: Making a post for all members will make the post accessible to free members

  5. If you are on an iOS device, you can choose to add the post to a collection or create a new collection to house your post. You can think of collections as your own library where you can get to organize your work however you want. Learn more about creating a collection

  6. You can Publish or Schedule your post to publish later or exit the post editor, and we’ll save your progress in your Drafts

As you create your post, we’ll auto-save any changes you make. If you exit the post editor, we’ll save your post as a draft for you to work on later.

If you have paid offerings, you can control tier access to your posts

As a creator on the Pro and Premium platform plans, you can control which paid members have access to your posts, depending on their selected tier. You can choose which membership tiers are allowed to access each post, giving you the ability to target your paid members with exclusive benefits and messages. To publish posts for a specific Tier, choose the Select Tier option, and select which Tiers have access to the post.