Glossary

Terms used across this site and in Peakub itself, in one place.

Studio

The creator-facing dashboard for managing a publication - writing, the Website tab, Revenue, and publication-level settings all live here.

Publication

The top-level container for a creator's writing: its name, description, cover art, and the posts, series, and pages published under it.

Post

A single piece of writing - the basic unit of content on Peakub.

Series

Content that comes in an order, numbered in parts ("Part 3 of 6"), with a page and an RSS feed of its own. See Series.

RSS feed

A page of your publication's pieces that a reader follows in a feed reader: one for the publication's articles, one for each rubric and one for each series. See RSS feeds.

Rubric

An ongoing theme of a publication, like a section of a magazine: its name shows in red above the name of what's in it, and it has its own page and feed. Readers can stop receiving one without leaving the publication. See Rubrics.

Snippet

A small chunk of reusable content - a bio, a call-to-action, a recurring note, a link, a gallery - written once and reused across pages, zines, the menu and emails. They're kept together in Studio's Snippets tab. See Snippets.

Template

A ready-made layout a new page or zine starts from, chosen in the "Add a page" or "Make a zine" window. See Adding a page.

Book club

A space for a group to read and discuss a book (or topic) together over time, distinct from a standard publication feed.

Coverage

A piece of writing about a specific book - a review, analysis, or discussion prompt - tied to a book club's current read.

Follow vs. subscribe

Following a publication adds it to your feed. Subscribing additionally gets you its new posts by email - the two aren't the same thing, and you can do either independently.

Pledge

The underlying mechanism behind tips and subscriptions - a reader committing money to a creator, one-off or recurring.

Wallet

A creator's balance, transaction history, and payouts - where money from tips, subscriptions, and one-time payments ends up. See Wallet.

Unique identifier

The short, lowercase handle that names a publication in URLs - youridentifier.peakub.com, and the address of every post under it. Picked when the publication is created, and unique across Peakub: two publications can share a name, but never an identifier.

It holds only lowercase letters, digits and dashes. Accented letters become their plain letter (Café Crème gives cafe-creme), and spaces, &, _ and other punctuation become a single dash.

Custom domain

Serving a publication from a domain you own (yourname.com) instead of its peakub.com subdomain. See Custom Domains.