Find your way around
A tour of the sidebar: what lives under Create, Engage, Grow and Manage, and which four screens you will actually use every week.
- console
- first steps
- navigation
Your console is the private side of your community. Members never see it. Everything in it is grouped by what you are trying to do, so you can usually find a thing by asking which of four verbs it belongs to.
Home and Get started
Home is the overview: new members, recent activity, revenue, and whatever needs your attention. Get started walks a brand new community through building its first funnel. Once you have published one, it stops nagging you.
Create
The things you make.
Courses: video, audio and text lessons, grouped into sections.
Guides: a renameable how-to library for recipes, workouts, protocols, anything step shaped.
Audio: an opt-in library of tracks and collections, with its own player.
Resources: the file library your members browse and download from, with folders and links. See Share files with your members (Resources).
Engage
The things you do with people.
Community: the discussion feed, its categories, and the moderation queue.
Events & Booking: your calendar, live sessions, webinars, and one to one bookings.
Emails & Contacts: broadcasts, automated journeys, and everyone you can reach.
Members: who has joined, what they are worth, and your team seats.
Direct messages: your inbox with individual members.
Grow
The things that bring money and people in.
Landing Pages & Forms: landing pages and lead capture forms.
Blog: posts that readers find through search and subscribe to by email, with scheduling, categories and your own address. See Start your blog.
Bio Link & Store: the one link you put in a social profile, and the digital products you sell from it.
Offers: sale prices, private links and discount codes on tickets, products, sessions and your membership, plus the free trial.
Payments & Agreements: one off and recurring payment links, contracts, and payment plans.
Analytics: what is working.
Manage
Customize: your wordmark, colours, fonts, and every word a member reads, plus the layout of your members' Home page (see Build your members' Home page).
Settings: your plan, Stripe, domains, tiers, and the danger zone.
Help: this documentation.
Common questions
Some of these are not in my sidebar. Why?
Your seat decides it. An editor does not get the member list, direct messages, the community moderation queue, analytics, offers, payments, the store or settings. Note that the switches in Customize change what your MEMBERS see, not your own sidebar: your console keeps Audio and Guides whether or not those tabs are live for members. Direct messages only appears while the Direct messages switch is on, under Customize, then Members.
Can I collapse the sidebar?
Yes. Collapsing keeps the icons and the dividers between groups. On a phone the same list opens from the menu button.
Can I fold a group of the sidebar, like Engage or Grow?
Yes. Click a group heading (Create, Engage, Grow or Manage) to fold its rows, and click it again to open them. A folded heading shows how many rows it hides, for example +5.
Two kinds of row stay visible even when their group is folded: the page you are on, and any row with a badge asking for you, such as posts waiting for review on Community, unread Direct messages, or the dot on Settings. Nothing is folded to start with. Your choice is remembered per browser, so a different browser or device starts with every group open.
What is the message across the top of my console?
When something is wrong with Drry, or about to be, we can put a short notice across the top of every console. It is either a warning or an info notice, and it goes away on its own when it ends. You can close it on your browser if you do not need it.
Can I change the colours of my console?
Yes. Go to Settings, then General, and look for Console colors. Pick Default, Match my community (which takes its accent, buttons and sidebar from your community's accent colour), or one of seven presets: Sky, Mint, Sage, Blush, Lavender, Peach and Slate. Sky, Blush and Lavender have a light sidebar; Mint and Peach a bold coloured one.
Owners and admins can change it, and everyone who runs the community sees the same colours. It only changes your console. What members see comes from Customize.
Do admins and editors see the same sidebar?
No. An editor sees the things they can build and none of the money or member management. An admin sees almost everything except billing. Only the owner sees all of it.