Add & Manage Collections, Authors & Topics

While some pieces of content you manage in your Nucleus account might exist in a vacuum (think: a standalone sermon), by and large, everything has its place and everything can be categorized and belong somewhere.

Collections, authors, and topics, afford you the tools to nicely organize and categorize every single Post you create so nothing is lost and all your content has a place to belong.

In this guide, we'll cover the following topics. Click on any one to jump ahead.

Similarities With Sermons

If you're familiar with sermons in Nucleus, you'll know that you need to add a speaker to every sermon you create in your Dashboard. You'll know that you can also add a sermon to a playlist (e.g. for a sermon series), as well as add topics to your sermon to help categorize what the sermon is about.

Posts operate in a similar fashion:

  • You must assign an author (just like you must assign a speaker to a sermon)
  • You must assign a Post to a Collection (just like you can add a sermon to a playlist)
  • You can assign multiple topics (just like you can to a sermon)

Did you catch that? While sermons can be a one-off message and not exist within a series, Posts cannot exist in a vacuum; they must belong to a Collection. This is because people subscribe to Collections, not to individual Posts.

This makes curating and managing Collections an integral component to the overall health of your Posts. Thankfully, Collections are super easy to create!

Create & Manage Your Collections

When you first access Posts in your Nucleus Dashboard here, you'll notice that there are already several Posts and Collections made for you. This is to help give you a vision for the types of Posts and Collections you can use for your church. (Don't worry - you can edit, archive, and delete anything that is pre-created for you.)

In the left sidebar, you'll see all your various Collections. Click on any of them to manage an individual Collection.

While viewing an individual Collection, you can search for a specific Post (helpful for when your Collection has a lot of Posts to sort through), or search for a Post via the Date Picker by using dates for when they were archived, created, last edited, or published.

You can also reorder the Posts that currently exist in it by clicking the two lines on a Post, dragging it up/down, and releasing it in the new spot in the list of Posts.

To edit the title, description, or header image for your Collection, click Edit Basic Info.

To stylize how your Collection appears, click Customize Display. This will allow you to choose a different color palette, edit how the header image displays, or even add custom CSS code to your Collection page. For a more in-depth understanding of these settings, click here.

You can quickly view what your Collection's page looks like on your website by clicking View Collection. To remove the Collection from your website, you can unpublish all of the Posts in your Collection, or Archive your Collection.

In the top sub-menu, you can find the sharing url for your Collection, edit subscriber settings, or manage admin access to your Collection.

To manage all of your Collections in general, click Manage in your main Posts menu, and select Collections. Click here for a quick link.

Just like reordering Posts in a single Collection, you can edit the order your Collections appear on your Post Hub. Simply click the two lines on a Collection, drag it up/down, and release it in the new spot you want your Collection to appear.

Your reordered list will be reflected in both your Collection section of your Post Hub homepage, or on your full Collection page in your Post Hub.

To create a new Collection, click the + Create Collection button, add a name and description, and click Save.

Your Collection will appear at the bottom of your list. To add Posts to your new Collection and to edit its appearance, simply click directly on it.


Create & Manage Authors

Every Post needs an Author assigned to it. And every Author has their own page on your Post Hub with all the Posts they have written.

You can add Authors manually, or even better, you can pull from someone listed in your Leaders & Staff  to dynamically link them in Nucleus Posts.

To get started, while in Nucleus Posts, click Manage. From the dropdown, select Authors. Click here for a quick link.

To add a new Author, click + Create Author.

Here, you can link dynamically to a staff or leader already created in your Nucleus account.

Or you can create one manually. Doing it this way, add their first and last name, and then upload an image for them. Then click Save.

Later, you can click on an Author to edit their title/role, as well as add a description for them. (If you've created an Author from a pre-created staff or leader, the information from their bio will showcase in your Post Hub.)

To reorder the Authors as they appear in the Authors section of your Post Hub homepage, or on your full Authors page in your Post Hub, simply click the two lines on an Author, drag it up/down, and release it in the new spot you want your Author to appear.

Every Author has their own page showcasing all the Posts they have written. To edit the url slug for an Author, click the dropdown arrow on the right of an Author.

To archive an Author, click the dropdown arrow on the right of an Author.

You can view all your archived Authors by clicking View Archived. Here, you can un-archive or completely delete an Author.


Create & Manage Topics

With each Post, you can add multiple topics to allow for quick and easy ways to identify and search for content. You can add, edit, and update topics, or create them on the fly as you edit your Posts.

To get started, while in Nucleus Posts, click Manage. Then from the dropdown, select Topics. Click here for a quick link.

From here, you can begin to add topics by clicking the + Create Topic button.

When adding a topic, you will be required to add a topic name with the option to add a short description. Once that's done, click Add New Topic.

As you add more topics, you can move them to be in a specific order on your Topics Section of your Post Hub by clicking the two lines on a playlist, dragging it up/down, and then releasing it in the position you want.

If you ever need to go back and edit the title or description of a topic, just click the Edit button on a topic. You can also delete a topic by clicking the down arrow and selecting Delete.

Next, you're probably wondering how to add a topic to a Post. Easy!

Anytime you're creating or editing a Post, you can easily add as many topics to that particular Post as you'd like. Simply click the dropdown menu under Topics and click on the topic you wish to add.

Do this for as many topics as you'd like to add.

If you accidentally select a topic and want to remove it from the sermon, simply click the X beside the topic.

Don't forget to Publish your changes after you add topics to a Post!

What Next?

Now that you've got your bearing straight with managing Collections, Authors, and Topics, it's time to get your Post Hub up and running, learn how to share it with others, and invite other admins to help manage your Posts. Click below to learn more:

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