Genres

Published October 7, 2026Updated October 20, 2026

A genre is a category the tenant files its series under, such as fantasy or romance. A series can be in any number of genres, chosen on its form, and readers browse the catalog by them. The genres are the tenant's own: nothing is predefined, and there is one flat list of them.

Genres, in the sidebar's Catalog group, holds the whole list on one page.

Managing genres

• New genre adds one, with Genre name and Create genre. Genre name has a field for each language the site offers, as Naming a genre in each language describes. Names are up to 50 characters, and the name in the default language must be unique. A new genre goes to the end of the list.
• Each genre's name in the default language can be changed in place, with Save.
• Drag a genre by its handle to change its place. The order is the one the site lists genres in, and the one a series' genres are shown in.
• Edit opens a genre's page. Its Basic information tab holds the genre's name in every language the site offers, and its Cover image tab gives it an image, as The cover image describes for a series.
• Delete removes a genre no series is in. A genre still in use cannot be deleted: take it off every series first.

Naming a genre in each language

A genre can have a name in each language the site offers, which a Tenant admin chooses under Settings. Genre name, on New genre and on a genre's Basic information tab, has a field for each of those languages, labelled with the language's name in that language, the site's default language first.

• The name in the default language is required. Readers in a language the genre has no name in see that one.
• The genre's slug, shown with its name, is made from the name in the default language. It is what keeps two genres from being named alike: names that differ only in case or spacing make the same slug, so the second of them is refused.
• The genre's address on the site is its public ID, not its slug, so renaming the genre does not move it, and it is the same in every language.
• The other names are optional. A field filled in adds the name in that language. On a genre's Basic information tab, emptying a field and choosing Save removes that name.
• A language the site does not offer has no field. A name already saved in it is kept, and its field comes back when the language is offered again.

On the site

• Browse by genre on the top page shows every genre, in the list's order, with the number of its published series. The section is hidden while the tenant has none.
• Genres, in the site's header, shows every genre as a tile, with its cover image or, without one, the covers of a few of its series.
• Each genre has a page with what is popular in it this week, and its series, which readers can narrow by status and other filters.
• A series page links to each of its genres.