Organizing your posts

On Patreon, you can organize your posts with collections and tags 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 both features to catalog 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 organize 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.

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.

How to add tags to posts

You can add tags to your post whenever you create or edit a post. To create a new post, click on the Create button from the left-hand navigation. At the bottom of the post creator, you can type your tag and hit enter. To edit a post, click on the Edit button and add your tags.

What to keep in mind about tags

• Each post can have up to 50 tags. Each tag can be up to 25 characters (including spaces) and can even contain emojis
• Capitalization 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.