Help
Short answers to what authors ask, roughly in the order you will need them. Each page is one topic, so your browser’s Find (Ctrl+F, or ⌘F on a Mac) searches it.
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Getting started
Signing up, the four setup steps, finding your way round the dashboard, and your account.
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Books and series
Adding a book with its cover and buy links, release dates and preorders, series in reading order, and downloads.
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Chapters
Writing or importing chapters, Open and Members chapters, Reading Mode, and scheduling a release.
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Members
How readers join your site, what they get, what you can see about them, and the Members list.
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Blog posts and pages
Writing and scheduling blog posts, tags, standing pages such as About, and your feed.
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Themes and appearance
Choosing a theme, its accent colour and fonts, and light or dark.
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Profile, newsletter and contact form
Your name, photo and bio, social links, the links page, the newsletter signup and the contact form.
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Using your own domain name
Pointing your own domain at your site, step by step for the common registrars, and what each message from the DNS check means.
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Visits, the weekly digest and search engines
What the Visits card counts, the Monday digest, and how search engines find your site.
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Exporting or deleting your site
Downloading everything on your site, deleting your account, and what happens to quiet accounts.
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Safety limits and suspension
The limits every site has and how to have one raised, and what gets a site suspended.
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Contact support
How to reach a person, what to include, and what to expect back.
Cannot find it? Email [email protected]. A person reads every message, and replies within two working days.