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  "slug": "page-recipes-by-creator-type",
  "title": "Five page recipes: what to switch on for your kind of creator",
  "description": "Reviewer, musician, coach, style creator or developer: which sections to switch on, which to leave off, and what the first screen should say.",
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-09",
  "publishedLabel": "9 October 2026 · 6 min read",
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  "html": "<p>The MyBase editor lets you switch on every section a page can hold, and it is tempting to do exactly that. The page that comes out then answers questions nobody asked.</p>\n<p>Here are five recipes instead, for a reviewer, a musician or podcaster, a coach, a style creator and a developer. Each switches on a few sections, leaves the rest off, and gives you first-screen wording to copy.</p>\n<h2>Every section is a switch</h2>\n<p>A MyBase page has 15 sections, 13 of them public. The other two only ever show to you. Each is a switch in Arrange sections, and a section that is off is not rendered at all. It is not collapsed or greyed out. It is simply not on the page, so no visitor finds an empty corner.</p>\n<p>Six go a step further: countdown, booking, GitHub, videos, collections and downloads render nothing until they hold something. Email capture and downloads ship off.</p>\n<p>So a page of only links is a complete page. The links rail has four styles (Slim, Spotlight, Banner and Minimal), and Spotlight, with big buttons one per row, is built for a page where the links are the point. If links are all your audience asks for, stop there.</p>\n<p>If they ask for more, every recipe starts the same way. Your name comes first, with a short line above it (the editor calls it Line above your name, and it holds up to 28 characters). Then a bio of up to 240, and then the one thing you most want tapped. The wording below is an example. Write your own.</p>\n<h2>Recipe 1: the reviewer</h2>\n<p>You make something people watch before they buy. A visitor has just finished a review and wants the product, or the next review.</p>\n<p><strong>First screen.</strong> Line above your name: &quot;Desk gear, properly tested&quot;. Bio: &quot;I use everything for a good while before I say a word about it. Newest review first, the rest grouped below.&quot;</p>\n<p>Switch on:</p>\n<ul><li><strong>Links rail.</strong> The top link is your newest review, labelled for what it is: &quot;Standing desk review: what I would change&quot;. Never &quot;Latest video&quot;.</li><li><strong>Videos.</strong> Paste reviews from YouTube, TikTok or Vimeo and they become playable cards. The player loads only when someone presses play. TikTok's short share links are refused: open one in a new tab and paste the full address instead.</li><li><strong>Collections.</strong> Group picks by the question people ask, such as &quot;Desk setup&quot;. Each has its own address, like mybase.page/yourname/c/desk-setup, the link to put under a video about it.</li><li><strong>Daily Essentials.</strong> The product section for things you reach for daily, each with your note and, for a product you add yourself, your own affiliate link.</li></ul>\n<p>A product on your page pays you only through your own affiliate link on it. Being listed earns nothing by itself, and a pick from the Vault links to the shop's own page with no affiliate link. <a href=\"/blog/link-in-bio-that-converts\">How to Build a Link in Bio That Converts</a> covers disclosing that link.</p>\n<h2>Recipe 2: the musician or podcaster</h2>\n<p>A visitor wants to press play. Everything else is a tiebreaker.</p>\n<p><strong>First screen.</strong> Line above your name: &quot;Songwriter and podcaster&quot;. Bio: &quot;Songs, and a podcast about how they get made. Start with the newest episode.&quot;</p>\n<p>Switch on:</p>\n<ul><li><strong>Videos.</strong> The section renames itself to fit what is on it. With only audio, its heading reads Listen. Paste Spotify tracks, albums, playlists, shows or episodes, or SoundCloud links. Add a YouTube video and the heading changes again.</li><li><strong>Countdown.</strong> Count down to a real date: a release, a show, a new season. When the date passes it says the thing has happened, so set the next date or switch it off. It holds still under reduced motion.</li><li><strong>Links rail.</strong> Tickets, merch, the full catalogue. We would try Banner, which wears your profile cover image, so release artwork can lead.</li></ul>\n<p>One honest limit: Apple Music links get a card, but they do not play on the page today. Spotify and SoundCloud do.</p>\n<h2>Recipe 3: the coach or consultant</h2>\n<p>A visitor is deciding whether to talk to you. The page should take them from &quot;maybe&quot; to a booked call with as little friction as possible.</p>\n<p><strong>First screen.</strong> Line above your name: &quot;Coach for new managers&quot;. Bio: &quot;I work with people in their first year of managing a team. Watch the short intro below, then pick a time.&quot;</p>\n<p>Switch on:</p>\n<ul><li><strong>Booking.</strong> Paste your Calendly or Cal.com page and it becomes a button. The scheduler loads only when a visitor taps it, and the section stays invisible until the address is a valid Calendly or Cal.com link.</li><li><strong>Videos.</strong> One short intro, in your own voice, from YouTube or Vimeo.</li><li><strong>Links rail.</strong> Labelled by what happens next: &quot;Book an intro call&quot;, &quot;How I work&quot;.</li><li><strong>A text note.</strong> Titled &quot;Who I work with&quot; (40 characters for the title, 600 for the text), it sits in the gaps between sections. Saying who you do not suit saves you both a call.</li></ul>\n<h2>Recipe 4: the style or lifestyle creator</h2>\n<p>A visitor saw something being worn and wants to know what it was.</p>\n<p><strong>First screen.</strong> Line above your name: &quot;Everyday style, notes on fit&quot;. Bio: &quot;What I actually wear, with the brand and how it fits. Browse by season below.&quot;</p>\n<p>Switch on:</p>\n<ul><li><strong>Wardrobe.</strong> Pieces in eight categories, each with a photo, brand, note and product link, plus a personal style statement. Photos wait for approval before they go public, so add them before the post that points here, not after.</li><li><strong>Collections.</strong> Group by occasion or season, such as &quot;Autumn basics&quot; or &quot;Weekend bag&quot;, and put each address under the matching post.</li><li><strong>The Videos section, used for Instagram.</strong> Paste your Instagram profile link and it becomes a grid of your latest posts, loaded when a visitor presses it or has allowed embedded feeds. On its own, the section's heading then reads Instagram. A single post or a reel is refused, because Instagram shows those blank to logged-out visitors.</li><li><strong>Links rail.</strong> The items from your newest post first, in the default Slim style.</li></ul>\n<h2>Recipe 5: the developer or maker</h2>\n<p>A visitor is a collaborator, or someone who found a project. They want evidence that you ship.</p>\n<p><strong>First screen.</strong> Line above your name: &quot;Developer and tinkerer&quot;. Bio: &quot;I build small tools and write about how they work. What I am on now is below.&quot;</p>\n<p>Switch on:</p>\n<ul><li><strong>GitHub.</strong> Set your handle and a contribution graph appears, drawn in your accent colour. It is stamped with the date it was fetched, so it reads as a snapshot, not a live feed.</li><li><strong>Links rail.</strong> Try Minimal, which uses hairlines only. Give one link a showcase: up to six pasted video or music URLs unfold under a single tile, so a &quot;Talks and demos&quot; link can hold your latest six.</li><li><strong>A text note.</strong> &quot;Working on now&quot;, in up to 600 characters. Changing one note is quicker than rebuilding a page.</li></ul>\n<h2>What to leave off</h2>\n<ul><li><strong>Anything you will not keep current.</strong> A countdown left running past its date goes stale and reads like a page nobody updates.</li><li><strong>Email capture, until you will write to the list.</strong> MyBase sends no campaigns on your behalf, so a form with no newsletter behind it only collects addresses.</li><li><strong>Downloads, until a file is worth giving.</strong> The section ships off and renders nothing until you publish one.</li><li><strong>The three product sections, if you recommend no products.</strong> Daily Essentials, Luxury Picks and New Discoveries carry your note and, on a product you add yourself, your own affiliate link. With nothing to recommend, they have nothing to say.</li><li><strong>The wishlist, if you do not want one public.</strong> It is on by default and stays quiet until you add something.</li></ul>\n<h2>Try the nearest recipe</h2>\n<p>Open the <a href=\"/preview/yourname\">sample page</a> and try the recipe closest to yours. It runs the real page and editor and saves nothing. It cannot show Collections, Wardrobe, Downloads or the wishlist, which need a real page, so you will meet those once your page exists. The sample page is where you can try this today. Every section is described on the <a href=\"/features\">features page</a>, and what each plan includes is on the <a href=\"/pricing\">pricing page</a>. For where things stand today, read <a href=\"/blog/what-mybase-is-now\">What MyBase Is Today, and What It Still Isn't</a>. When a recipe fits, <a href=\"/join\">claim your handle</a>.</p>\n<h2>FAQ</h2>\n<h3>What should I put on a creator page?</h3>\n<p>The one thing you most want tapped, a line saying who you are, and only the sections that answer what your audience asks. Start from the nearest recipe.</p>\n<h3>Is a page of only links enough?</h3>\n<p>Yes. A links-only page is a first-class page here, and the Spotlight style is built for it. Switch the other sections off and the links are the whole page. Add a section when your audience wants something a link cannot give, such as a playable track or a booking button.</p>\n<h3>Will an unused section leave a blank box on my page?</h3>\n<p>No. A section that is switched off is not rendered at all, and the six content-only sections render nothing until they hold content.</p>"
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