Your community dashboard is the place you will use to manage your entire community platform.
Here, you’ll be able to add new posts, topics, manage members and also manage community settings.
Let’s take a closer look at your community dashboard.
In this article:
Accessing your community area
In order to access your community area, simply click the Community tab at the top menu.
Right after that, you will be redirected to your community dashboard where you’ll be able to manage everything.
Understanding the sidebar
The left-hand menu will give you all the options you need to manage your community platform.
Let’s take a look at what you’ll be able to do with each one of the items:
Home
This is your Home feed. You’ll be able to view all of the posts from topics you follow as well as have quick access to publish a new post.
Members
Clicking on Members will grant you access to all of your community members.
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Settings
This is where you’ll be able to edit community settings such as availability, subscription plans, name, banner image, descriptions & more.
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How to manage community settings
Topics
In there you will see a list of all of the topics you currently follow. If you’re not following a specific topic you won’t see it listed in the sidebar, even if you have access to it.
If you want to see all of the topics you currently have access to as well as manage topic following you can click on All topics and make any changes from there.
You can also access the menu to add and manage topics.
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Understanding your Home feed
Your Home feed is where we will show all posts from topics you currently follow. They should be organized from “Newest” -> “Oldest”, based on the date they were published.
I can’t view any posts, why?
If your home feed looks empty like this you can follow a few steps:
Make sure you already created posts for your community
Make sure you are following topics that contain posts
See? Managing your community area is super easy and simple.
If you have any other questions about creating a community within Podia, please do not hesitate to reach out to our lovely support team at [email protected]. We’d be more than happy to assist! 🙌