New to Wattpad, wondering how to edit your profile, get followers, and reads?
In this book I will start off with the basics: editing your profile and navigating wattpads clubs and forums. Then I will share the tips and tricks on how to get reads and...
The wattpad forums is a very good thing to use to connect with others, get help on your blurb/title, find a cover maker, and share your story.
First thing you're going to have to do is click the community button on the left side of the Wattpad bar. Then click 'forums'
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Now, when you go to forums for the first time you're going to get a quick tutorial anyway but I'll tell you the basics.
When you're in forums the page will look like this:
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- Beneath categories (where the black circle is) is where Wattpad splits the forums/clubs into groups. You have 'share your story', 'wattpad feedback and new', 'the cafe', 'improve your writing', and so on.
As you can see underneath the 'Share your story' club I have put a purple box. In the purple box it tells you what is in that particular group. If you click on one of the words it will take you to either that one group to do with that or a list of groups.
For example if I clicked 'Trailers' under the 'story services' category it would take me to the posts about book trailers.
- If you're looking for something in particular you can also search for it using the search bar (circled in orange).
- It also has latest groups/posts on the right (in blue).
Edit your profile (on forums)
On forums, you also have your own profile which is different to your Wattpad profile, on this account you can include a link to your Wattpad profile. It is worth at least adding that so if you are active in forums and someone wants to follow you on Wattpad they can find you easily.
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- Now to edit your profile you need to click on your profile picture in right-hand corner.
(It also good to know that any replies or likes to what you post can also be found through clicking your profile picture. These are your notifications for the forum.)
- To go to your profile click your name (the text that is in blue on the picture).
Now once you click your name it will come up with some options 'Summary', 'activity', 'drafts', 'preference', and 'log out'. I will go through what the others are after explaining how to edit your profile.
- Click on preference and you will come to this page:
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- Click 'Profile' (in the orange circle). You will come to this page:
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- Fill in the about me if you want to. Unlike on your Wattpad profile that forum one isn't that important. But, make sure you add a link to your Wattpad profile page, and fill in Wattpad user name.
- Thats it.
What are the other options
Summary is where you can see things such as your stats (Days visited, read time, topics viewed, 'post read', 'likes recieved'). As well as who you replied to the most, who you are most liked by, and who you have liked the most.
Now if someone has liked a lot of your posts or replied to them a lot you might want to click their profile picture) and see if they have a link to their Wattpad profile and follow them.
Activity is pretty self-explanatory, this is where you find your activity, the comments you have put and on what topics.
