Create a brand new community

• Open Product from the Dashboard.
• Click + New Product in the top right corner.
• Choose Community from the list of Product Templates and give your new community a Name. Don't worry, the name can be edited later on.
• Then, click Save:

Edit community details

• Click Edit Details from the Community Dashboard.
• Add a title, description, and product image.
• Choose to use an image as your community logo or the title of the community as the logo.
• Add your brand colors for the Community.
• Set your Community homepage to the Feed view or the Topics view:

Customize your community sidebar

• From the Community Dashboard, click Customize Sidebar.

Here you can enter and edit the text that will display in your community sidebar.

This is a great place to layout your vision, mission, and purpose for the community, as well as a list of guidelines for your members to follow.

Post to your community

• Click Go to Community from your Community Product dashboard.
• Click Write Something to create a Post:

To learn more about posting to your Community, follow along with our in-depth tutorials on Community Posts:

• Posting to your Community
• Using Post Actions

Create and utilize topics

To create a topic:

• From the Community Dashboard, click + Add Topic from inside the Topics section.
• Give your Topic a title and a Description, and if you'd like to color coordinate your topics inside the dashboard, select a tab color for your topic.
• Then click Save.

To post inside a topic:

• From the Community Dashboard, click Go to Your Community.
• In your Community, select the Topics tab.
• Then, select the Topic you would like to Post in. 
• Here you can create a Post inside the created Topic:

Looking to move your Community Post to a different topic? Learn more