If you've ever been confused about page tags vs. people tags in your control panel, you are not alone!

In the website section of your control panel, there is a field for page tags, as well as a field for people tags. Let's take a look at the differences.

People tags are used to add information to a person's profile that helps give context about that person's interactions with your organization.

In the example below, John the volunteer has been automatically tagged from the sign-up page because he joined via that page. Now organizers can easily see at a glance how he joined or search for him by that tag.

Learn more about how to use people tags.

Page tags are website theme reference objects. They allow web developers to easily pull different objects from a website page to another place on your website. These tags are usually only created by people with some experience in the website section and are mentioned in our theme library documentation.

There is one way that page tags are used by Nationbuilder users. The tag used is "homepage" and it is used to create homepage excerpts.

Page tags are typically used to add a "homepage excerpt," What is a homepage excerpt? A homepage excerpt is an abbreviated version of another page displayed on the homepage of your website.

As an example, here is a website that displays an excerpt of the Events Calendar, Contact, Donate, and Petition pages. The homepage looks like it has multiple forms on it but really what is going on here is that an excerpt of each page is being pulled onto the homepage by using a page tag. See what this looks like below:

As you can see on the purple page tag below, this Join page has the homepage page tag, so it will display as an excerpt on the homepage.