Help:Mobile Main Page

The Mobile Main Page has been deprecated as part of the FandomMobile work. The main page on a mobile experience is now wiki stats, the wiki description, Trending Articles, and Trending Categories.
However, note that the following portions of the Mobile Main Page are still in use, though Fandom is working to decouple them from the Mobile Main Page:
You may desire to continue to maintain the Mobile Main Page until the feature has been fully deprecated.
Mobile Main Page

The mobile main page

The Mobile Main Page (MMP) allows wiki administrators to curate their wiki's categories into a special landing page for mobile users. Since many desktop main pages are highly customized, they don't translate easily to mobile devices, so using our MMP tool will help mobile users discover wiki content without sacrificing the custom desktop experience. To see what your wiki's Mobile Main Page looks like, visit your wiki on a mobile device! Or add ?useskin=fandommobile to the end of the page URL.

Readers on mobile web and the Fandom app that arrive to the wiki's home page will see the selection of categories laid out in the MMP tool. Additionally, the tool allows administrators to set a text summary and representative image for the wiki.

Legacy Mobile Main Page

The Mobile Main Page tool is only accessible using FandomDesktop skin (you can switch to desktop mode at the bottom of the page). The "Edit mobile main page" link can be found in the "Wiki" section of the Admin Dashboard. Only local admins and Fandom Staff can see this link.

Editing your wiki's Mobile Main Page will be easiest if your community has a well-structured category layout, as you also cannot add a category to the MMP that has not been created on the wiki (note that a category being used is not the same as it being created).

Featured & Optional Categories

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The last sections are where you'll add your wiki's important content categories. These are separated into Featured Categories and Optional Categories.

Featured Categories are for categories that can be grouped together. For example, a wiki may have character categories like Heroes, Villains, Side Characters, etc. These can be grouped together into a single "Characters" section in the Featured Categories area. Create a section first, with its own name and image, then add categories to the section.

Optional Categories are for categories that don't belong in a group with other categories. For example, a wiki might have a single category on Merchandise that isn't split into sub-categories. Adding Optional Categories works similarly to adding a category to a Featured Category section. The only difference is that Optional Categories will appear in the same list as the Featured Category sections when readers access your wiki's Mobile Main Page.

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Make sure to crop images so they fit the allotted space.

In both of these sections, all links must point to category pages. Be sure to include the Category: prefix when entering each category name. When you select the category, an image will be automatically suggested, but you can change these images. In addition, mobile web and the Fandom app will treat these images differently:

  • Mobile web will show a 1:1 (perfect square) ratio. What appears in this square will depend on how you align the image in the "Crop the image" option.
  • The Fandom app will show a 4:3 ratio from the top of the image. Aligning the image in the MMP tool will not change how the image looks in the Fandom app.

As such, even when a proper image is suggested to be used from the start, it is best to always use the "Crop the image" option to make sure it will show up properly.

When a reader taps into a Featured or Optional Category, all of the articles in that category will appear, just like how categories work on desktop, so be sure to choose the most interesting categories for these sections! Think about how your readers will want to look for content; TV wikis may want to split categories per season, while gaming franchise wikis may want to split categories by games.

Publishing and error handling

Note that your changes will not save until you click the "Publish" button at the first screen in the MMP tool. Clicking "Done" on any content editing areas will prepare your settings for publication, but only clicking the "Publish" button will fully save your changes.

You may see an error pop up when clicking the "Publish" button. If this is the case, there is at least one link, category, or image that was used that no longer exists on the wiki. You need to verify each piece of content actually exists on the wiki before you can publish the Mobile Main Page. Since it is not clear from the categories and files pages on the wiki that they are being used on the MMP, it is good practice to mark them as such with a designated Category:MMP to prevent them from being deleted or renamed without also fixing them in the MMP.

Trending and video sections

These sections on the Mobile Main Page on mobile web are automatically populated based on the ten articles with the most readers in a day on your community, and it will display the twelve most recently added videos. They are not editable.

See also

Further help and feedback