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Creating and launching your community | Managing community topics

Topics are made to help you to organize your posts and updates within your community.

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Written by Katee
Updated over 3 weeks ago

This is Step 3 in our Creating and launching your community guide. Head over to the overview page to start at the beginning!

Understanding Topics

Topics are where your community posts and updates live. Topics will help you to organize them within your community.

Members can join one or multiple topics - as well as write new posts, comment, and interact with other members once inside those plans.

Topics will vary based on the type of content you’ll be offering inside your community area.

You can organize topics based on your tiers, the type of content you want to host - or anything else!

Creator tip! 💡
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Here's how you could organize topics taking into account your current tiers:
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You can create a topic for each level of your plans. For example, if you have a Champion plan, you can create topics specific to your Champion level members.


Or you could also organize them by the type of content you'll be publishing:
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For example, you could have a topic for Book Recommendations, a topic for Sharing Your Story, and a topic for Weekly Webinars.

To help you get started, we created two topics for you: General and Random. Feel free to modify or delete these based on your community's needs.

Creating topics

  1. In the sidebar menu, click on Community and select Topics.
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  2. To add a new topic, click on +New topic.
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    At the top left of the section that appears, there is a button that reads + New Topic. Click it.

  3. Give your topic a name, description, and optional banner image.
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    There will be a space to add a name for the topic, a description, and an upload form to add an image.

    1. Make sure to also modify your topic options - this is where you'll get to control which plans or members will be able to access this particular topic.
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    2. You'll also get to control who can create new posts as well as default notification options.
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      Under options, there will be various settings for the individual topic. You can choose open or private access, as well as select which plans have access to the topic. Alternatively, you can choose Public access to make the posts viewable to nonmembers as well. You can also select whether anyone can make new posts, or if only you can make new posts.

  4. Once you're done, hit Create topic.

Related articles 📚

How to add a new topic
​How to edit a topic
​How to manage topic options


Now that you've set up your topics, let's move forward with step 4: Writing and publishing posts.
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Step 4: Writing and publishing posts ->

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