In this video, I'll show you how to customize your Tribe homepage.
There's a lot of different ways you can customize with Tribe.
You can create a hero, kind of big image with buttons and text.
You can even hide all of that if you need to.
And you can have rows of content showing up below that
hero image on your homepage. And everybody's community in Tribe is just
slightly different, so we've created a few ways that you can customize this homepage
to help your users get around and access your content more easily.
So let me head over to our site, and I'll show you exactly
how to set this up here. So if we jump in on this
particular homepage, I have a hero image at the top.
I have my groups here, and then I have my first
collection of content here, with tutorials here,
and so forth, kind of working down the page. So the way that you would set this
up is you'd head over into the dashboard.
You would go to Collections, and
first off, you would go ahead and create a collection. I'm going to go here and say
My New Homepage Collection. You can call it
whatever you want. The text that you use here is what's going to show up
right here. That's the collection name.
Here, I'm going to go ahead and say, I'm going to put it
in this position. So the position is how early in the page do you want to show it.
And this is just a numeric value. So this allows you to
have kind of a 1, 2, 3, 4, but then rather than going and
updating them, you can actually make a position 0, or even a position negative 1.
So it's a little bit more customizable there.
So I'm just going to make negative 100. I want to make sure that it goes right to the top.
And then I'm just going to hit Save.
So here, I'm also going to go ahead and say Show on Homepage. I missed that
one step. Just say Show on Homepage, and click Save.
Now if we refresh, you'll see
it didn't change. So why is that? Well, when you go into
this, and you go into the Homepage, you have to have content
in a collection before it shows up. So it's not going to show you an empty row. It's just one of
the features we built in that if you don't have content for a collection,
or it's not published content in some cases, it's not going to show that
entire collection. So we're not going to show blank collections, people, because it doesn't really
serve any purpose. So let's head over to Content here. I'm going to grab
one of my tutorials, and I'm just going to throw that into this collection
to show you how it works. So I'm going to say My New Page. So I've taken a piece of content
and I've added it to this collection. I'm going to click Save.
And now I'm going to click Refresh. And now you'll see
it says My New Homepage Collection that we just created with that one piece of
content in here. So I'm going to add just a couple more
to this. And let's go here.
Just add two. Save.
And I'll refresh so you should see the second one show up. So now there's two videos there.
And if I go to Collections, I can click back into this collection
and this allows you to reorder them. So if you do want to change
these, you can just drag and drop them however you want.
There's also a way to change the sorting preference.
So once you start to drag and drop, it's going to switch it into manual mode. You can also
say you want the most recent first, or you want them to be in chronological order.
So this can just help you with a quick organization of those
of that collection. So if you change that, it will change the order of
these appearing in this list. So that
is how to add a new collection to the page.
When someone signs out, you'll notice that the groups is not
shown here. So we only show this My Groups section when
the user is signed in because we obviously don't know which groups they're
in yet until we know who is at the site. So that
is why this will sometimes show or not show. If you don't have any groups on your platform
and you're not using groups, you will never see those here and you will not see
the icon, the link here at the top left.
Let's kind of just move up a bit here. We do have this Hero
section, so where it says Tribe Social Members, this is our Hero section. We've got
text, we've got a little description here, and then a link to start watching, which just
links you to scroll down. And to edit this
you'll head over to the Platform section and we'll click Edit.
And this is the background image you can upload
here. You can change the colors, of course, and
customize. I think that's in another video. But you can customize the colors of these buttons
and then the text here is going to be whatever the name of your site
is. And then in the description, this is going to be the description that shows up
there. Now, one of the questions people ask us a lot
is okay, I don't want to have my platform name there.
And I don't want to have this text. No problem.
You can check the box here that says hero image only click
save.
And now you will only see an image here.
So this hero image that we have here, instead of being a background,
it's actually going to become the featured image.
And what it will do is it will expand the width and the height to make sure that
nothing on that image is cropped.
So if you want to have a very short banner, just simply, uh,
upload something, you know, that is more like that kind of size.
It's going to be kind of, let's say 1920 by four 80.
So it's 1920 pixels wide by 480 pixels tall.
That's going to create a nice long wide banner.
If you want something a little taller, make it as tall as you want.
And the other thing you can do with this is you can place text in this image.
So if you want to arrange something kind of cool on the,
on there and even have some, a button on this,
you can place some text and have a button on that image. Uh,
and then you can use this option here where, uh,
you can link the entire image to go to some place.
So let's say you wanted to have some big ad for some upcoming events that you
wanted people to register for,
or maybe a new live stream that you want to send them to. Well,
you could add a link here to, uh, you know, I could send it to,
you know, my, my sales funnel and they could click out, click on that, um,
image. So anytime they click on this, it would actually take them, uh,
to another, uh, URL. And of course you can link to other places in the
site. So let's say I wanted to promote this one very, uh,
exciting piece of content about how to create a download content item.
I would just take the whole URL there and I would paste it here.
So now it's going to say, Hey, go to tribe, social, uh,
members of tribe social with the whole URL to get to that one piece of content.
So now I can make this entire, um,
home section clickable to go right to that piece of content. So of course,
now you can start to use your imagination at how, like,
it's pretty flexible how you can use it. And of course,
if you have any questions on how to set any of this up,
or if you want some suggestions,
you can always reach out to us at help at tribe, social.io. Um,
or drop a question in our Facebook group, um,
or book a one of those tech support calls. So we hope this helps.