In the Website section of your control panel, you’ll see two different tag fields: page tags and people tags. Although they look similar, they serve very different purposes. Here’s how they work.

People tags store information on a person’s profile to help you track their relationship or interactions with your organization.

For example, in the image below, John the volunteer was automatically tagged when he signed up through a specific page. Because of this tag, organizers can quickly understand how he joined and can easily find him using tag-based filtering or search.

Learn more about how to use people tags.

Page tags are reference objects used by your website theme. They let developers pull content or components from one page onto another part of your site. These tags are generally created by users familiar with the website theme system, and they’re documented in our theme library.

However, there is one page tag most NationBuilder users will encounter: the “homepage” tag.

Adding the homepage page tag to a page creates a homepage excerpt: a shortened version of that page displayed directly on your homepage.

For example, in the site shown below, the homepage displays excerpts of the Events Calendar, Contact, Donate, and Petition pages. It may look like multiple forms live on the homepage itself, but what’s actually happening is that each of those pages is being pulled in via the “homepage” tag.

In the image below, you can see that this Join page includes the homepage tag, which allows its excerpt to display on the homepage.

In the image below, you can see that the Join page excerpt displays on the homepage.