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How to Organize Your Pinterest Boards

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Learn How To Organize Your Pinterest Boards Alphabetically!

See these step by step Pinterest board arrangement instructions and helpful Pinterest tips!

I’m also sharing 2 other amazing ways to arrange your Pinterest boards.

You won’t believe how easy it is to move your Pinterest boards!

These are handy Pinterest tips for all of you Pinterest lovers!

How to Organize Your Pinterest Boards Alphabetically! Its so easy! Step by step instructions to organize your Pinterest Boards In alphabetical order by board title so you can find your pins and ideas easily. Social media tips. Pinterest tips.

See these helpful tips on how to move your Pinterest boards to alphabetize them according to the titles you’ve given each board.

How Do You Organize your Pinterest Boards?

Read on to learn how to organize your Pinterest boards in 3 different ways!

Now you can sort your Pinterest boards and arrange them by:

  • Alphabetical order

  • Most recently saved to

  • Custom order (drag and drop to arrange them)

Let’s discuss the alphabetical method first.

Did you know you can rearrange your boards and place them in order alphabetically?

Why would you want to alphabetize your Pinterest boards?

3 reasons to arrange your Pinterest Boards alphabetically are:

  1. It makes it easier to pin, because boards are all alphabetized
  2. It’s easier to find your saved pins on a given topic, by searching for the alphabetized board name
  3. It’s easier to find a particular board when you need a board for a project

Instructions on How To Rearrange Your Pinterest Boards

1.  Log into your Pinterest account.<
2. Click your profile picture at the top-right of the screen to open your profile.
3. Click Saved to see all of your boards.
4. On desktop – click the filter icon, shown below, that’s on the far left ( above your Pinterest boards) and select the way you want to sort your boards:

How To Arrange Pinterest Boards Alphabetically Or Custom!

 

On mobile  – click on the filter icon is to the right of the ‘search your saved ideas’ search bar that’s immediately under the Saved tab.

5. Select the way you want to arrange your Pinterest boards by clicking on the method in the ‘Sort by‘ dialog box.
6. If you want to organize your boards alphabetically select ‘A to Z’ – they will automatically organize alphabetically!
7. The second way you can organize your Pinterest boards is manually.  Select ‘Custom‘ to arrange your Pinterest boards in the exact way you want them to be organized. Click on a Pinterest board that you want to move, drag it and drop it where you want it, to a white space between 2 other Pinterest boards. The other boards will shift to make room. You may have to click and hold the Pinterest board for a second as you drop it into place, for the other boards to shift into place.
8. The third way you can organize your Pinterest boards is to select “Last Pin Added‘. This will automatically organize your Pinterest boards in the order in which you have last pinned to them. The Pinterest board with the most recently saved pin will appear first.
9. If prompted, click Lose previous customization.
10.  That’s it!

Now you can move your boards as you like!

I hope you found these Pinterest tips helpful on How to Organize Your Pinterest Boards!

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How To Customize Your Pinterest Profile

Check out this post on How To Customize Your Pinterest Profile to edit your Pinterest profile information.

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heatherHeather is a Designer, True Color Expert® and proud military wife at Setting For Four Interiors. Heather offers online Interior Design and Paint Color Services. See all of our design tips & tricks on the blog and follow us on Instagram for more design and decor inspiration!

Comments

  1. Paula@SweetPea says

    December 29, 2012 at 1:06 pm

    Thanks for hosting!

    Reply
    • Heather SettingforFour says

      December 29, 2012 at 3:27 pm

      Thanks so much for linking up Paula!!

      Reply
  2. Cynthia Landrie says

    December 29, 2012 at 1:39 pm

    Thanks for hosting. I am now following all of you and look forward to seeing all of your boards!

    Reply
    • Heather SettingforFour says

      December 29, 2012 at 3:41 pm

      Yay – thanks for sharing here Cynthia!!

      Reply
  3. Tanya Payzant says

    December 29, 2012 at 2:56 pm

    Thanks so much, Heather. I’m following lots of new boards now! Happy New Year!

    Reply
    • Heather SettingforFour says

      December 29, 2012 at 3:42 pm

      Thanks for linking up your Pinterest board Tanya!!

      Reply
  4. Heather SettingforFour says

    December 29, 2012 at 3:45 pm

    I’m following everyone here – great Boards everyone!

    Reply
  5. Ann from On Sutton Place says

    December 29, 2012 at 4:44 pm

    I’m following everyone but will come back later to see if more linked up. Happy Saturday and thanks for hosting!

    Reply
    • Heather SettingforFour says

      December 30, 2012 at 12:48 am

      Thanks Ann for linking up!!

      Reply
  6. Heather SettingforFour says

    December 30, 2012 at 12:49 am

    I’m caught up again with everyone here that linked up!! Wow – great Pinterest boards everyone – so inspirational!!

    Reply
  7. Laura says

    December 30, 2012 at 2:31 am

    Hi Heather-
    Thank you so much for hosting. I just joined in-

    Laura
    White Spray Paint

    Reply
  8. Denyse @ Crazy Beautiful Life says

    December 30, 2012 at 3:40 am

    Thanks for hosting, Heather!!

    Reply
  9. TabbyAnn says

    December 30, 2012 at 3:48 am

    Thanks For Hosting! I followed everyone and am looking forward to seeing what everyone is pinning!

    Reply
  10. Diana - FreeStyleMama says

    December 30, 2012 at 4:10 am

    Thanks for the party! I am following everyone!

    Reply
    • Heather SettingforFour says

      December 30, 2012 at 5:42 am

      Followed you too Diana – great boards 😀

      Reply
  11. mcasper10 says

    December 30, 2012 at 4:41 am

    My first linky party and I screwed up my image! Sorry!

    Reply
    • Heather SettingforFour says

      December 30, 2012 at 5:42 am

      No worries!

      Reply
  12. Lila says

    January 2, 2014 at 9:01 pm

    Thanks, Heather for the update on Pinterest moving Boards around. I don’t understand why there is not an alpha order board option on Pinterest. Is it me, or doesn’t that seem like a common sense setting to have? Thanks again, for ryour help.

    Reply
    • Pegi says

      February 28, 2018 at 9:35 pm

      There is a sort for board. It is on your profile page at the bottom of the page on the left side. You click sort and then choose how you want to sort. I have mine alphabetized.

      Reply
  13. Tracy Payne says

    January 13, 2014 at 3:06 am

    I’ve been doing this since I opened my account years ago. Damned OCD!!! Hahaha

    Reply
  14. ♥ Amy says

    January 16, 2014 at 8:23 pm

    Came over here from Pinterest and just wanted to add that I rearranged my boards recently and when I went back, only the first few were in place. When I checked up on the problem, I found that Pinterest recommends you refresh after a few changes so that it can keep up. I refreshed after every half dozen changes or so and it worked perfectly!

    Reply
  15. Melody Gardner says

    June 20, 2014 at 6:32 pm

    I like the refresh idea. I tried once and just got a mess. Actually, I would like mine to be in divided areas. I desperately need sewing, cooking, and other interests in groups!

    Reply
    • Juliette says

      August 17, 2016 at 5:48 pm

      Then you just put them together that way and not alphabetically. The only issue is that if you start a new board you have to drag it the the area where it’s ‘cousin’ boards are. Check out my boards and you will see that the recipes are first and then Catholic/inspiration, then a bunch of homeschooling boards (I think) and then home/craft boards and then others…..they work for my brain, but not for many other people’s!LOL! https://www.pinterest.com/hsmomforlife/

      Reply
      • heather says

        August 17, 2016 at 9:03 pm

        Thanks for your tips Juliette!

        Reply
      • Pegi says

        February 28, 2018 at 9:37 pm

        I just named mine eith a lead word so they are all together alphabetically.

        Reply
  16. Lynne Asato says

    July 27, 2014 at 12:31 am

    Thanks for the directions on moving the boards.

    Reply
    • heather says

      July 27, 2014 at 2:24 pm

      You are so welcome Lynne!!

      Reply
  17. mama spins says

    January 30, 2015 at 8:56 pm

    How do you backup your pinterest boards?

    Reply
    • heather says

      January 31, 2015 at 4:45 pm

      Hi Mama Spins! I’m not sure I know what you mean…..your Pinterest boards are saved within your Pinterest account so Pinterest manages them, you are not ‘saving them’ yourself, to your computer. Is that what you mean? I hope that helps! Thanks for visiting Setting for Four!

      Reply
  18. Linda Porter says

    February 1, 2015 at 3:34 pm

    Is there a way to rearrange the boards on a IPad? No computer.

    Reply
    • heather says

      February 4, 2015 at 9:53 am

      Hi Linda – not that I know of….you need to be able to right click with a mouse to move them!! Maybe you could go to a friend’s house that has a computer or your library to do it? Thanks for visiting!

      Reply
  19. hollerinhoney says

    April 28, 2015 at 12:58 pm

    Why can’t I alphabetize all my boards? Some won’t move. Thanks

    Reply
    • heather says

      April 30, 2015 at 10:26 pm

      I’m not sure why some won’t move – I haven’t had that happen, sorry! I hope you can figure it out!

      Reply
  20. Jennifer says

    May 13, 2015 at 9:06 pm

    I just wanted to share that I find it so much easier to manually move my boards if I use the Control button and the mouse wheel together to make the screen images of the boards much smaller. I can then see more boards on a row and it is not so confusing when I try to move the boards (by resting the mouse on the board until you see a hand and then holding down the left mouse button – move and drop).

    Reply
    • mrswilliam says

      September 16, 2015 at 1:17 pm

      Thank you soo much !! thank you for youR time and needed info,– 🙂

      Reply
      • heather says

        October 18, 2015 at 5:21 pm

        You’re welcome – glad my post has helped! 🙂

        Reply
  21. mrswilliam says

    September 16, 2015 at 1:14 pm

    please help!! I so would like to organize my boards by topic ( I respect that most prefer to do it by alphabet) , I on the other hand need topic organizing. An example is all food item boards next to each other. Thank you, can you help me, mrswilliam —

    Reply
    • heather says

      October 18, 2015 at 5:17 pm

      You’d just have to move them around into groups – such as all of your food boards all together. I hope that helps!

      Reply
  22. Trish87109 says

    October 22, 2015 at 11:58 pm

    Do you have any tips for alphabetizing using the app for android?

    Reply
    • heather says

      October 30, 2015 at 11:39 am

      Sorry – I’m not sure it can be done that way…..I do it on my laptop. If I find out a way to do it using the app I’ll post it!

      Reply
  23. Elisa says

    February 4, 2016 at 12:23 am

    They used to have a button when you went to edit that said “rearrange all boards alphabetically?” and then it did them all for you. Any chance you found how to do it that way?? Thanks for the tips!

    Reply
    • heather says

      February 9, 2016 at 7:29 am

      Hi Elisa – no there isn’t a button like that anymore! Wish they still had that! You’re welcome for the tips and thanks for visiting!

      Reply
  24. Lois says

    March 22, 2016 at 10:33 pm

    It doesn’t work with an iPad as it has a touch pad, not a mouse. Any instructions to move them with the touch-pad?

    Reply
    • heather says

      March 28, 2016 at 11:56 pm

      No I don’t use my iPad to move my boards Lois. Have a great day!

      Reply
  25. Dianne says

    April 28, 2016 at 12:29 am

    Thank you so much! I didn’t know how to do this and it was irritating when it wasn’t in alphabetical order!

    Reply
    • heather says

      April 29, 2016 at 4:35 pm

      You’re welcome Dianne! Glad it helped you out! 🙂

      Reply
  26. Lu says

    April 5, 2017 at 11:28 pm

    I’m having problems when moving boards into alphabetic order. I have organized my Pinterest boards in alphabetical order for several years, with no problem. But recently when I try to organize my boards they’ll bounce back to where I was dragging them from. How can I make sure the board stays after releasing left click hold?

    Reply
    • heather says

      April 6, 2017 at 9:22 am

      Hi Lu – it’s probably a glitch with Pinterest. Try in a couple of days to see if it works!

      Reply
      • Elaine Donaldson says

        August 6, 2017 at 8:36 pm

        No it does not make any difference how many times I do it the boards will not stay where I put them. Some instructions I found said to “refresh” the page but I cant find out how to do that. HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!

        Reply
        • heather says

          August 17, 2017 at 6:00 pm

          Pinterest recently changed things! Boards can’t be arranged. I’m hoping they fix it soon!

          Reply
          • Jamie says

            December 26, 2017 at 7:22 pm

            UGH! I’ve tried rearranging my boards a million times! Wasted so much time organizing them just to refresh the page and see all my hard work gone! SO frustrating!

          • heather says

            December 27, 2017 at 12:37 pm

            Yes Jamie I agree! Pinterest doesn’t allow us to organize our boards alphabetically anymore – it’s a new change they implemented!

  27. Linda Chaves says

    April 7, 2017 at 7:29 am

    I also cannot change the boards, and I do not have the ‘Edit’ at the top of the Boards page, or anywhere. I have checked and this is the latest update for Mac. When I move the boards with the mouse, all they do is exchange positions, or pop back…I have read many posts which tell me to simply move them, but on my Mac this does not work. I am so frustrated!
    Linda

    Reply
    • heather says

      April 9, 2017 at 6:07 pm

      Hi Linda – Pinterest just recently changed things. It’s frustrating I agree!

      Reply
  28. David Harms says

    August 3, 2017 at 4:18 pm

    I have a pinterest board for my old High School’s Football teams that I had arranged by year and when I went into it today they were all out of order. Can I rearrange them alphabetically without manually moving them all? How do I make it stay That way?

    Reply
    • heather says

      August 5, 2017 at 4:29 pm

      Hi David – Pinterest just changed the way that boards appear in a person’s profile. There is no way to move them into the order you want right now. Wish we could order them!!

      Reply
  29. JAN says

    September 17, 2017 at 10:59 am

    THANKS FOR SHARING

    Reply
    • heather says

      September 17, 2017 at 12:38 pm

      You’re welcome!

      Reply
  30. Brenda says

    February 3, 2022 at 3:19 pm

    There is noting that exists like that on my board!! I sure wish I could find a way to alphabetize them!! You would think that Pinterest would want to make things as easy as possible for those that use it, not make it more difficult!!

    Reply
  31. Kim says

    October 25, 2024 at 3:16 pm

    Hi, if the boards can now be arranged alphabetically, where exactly do we find how to do this, step by step? Your article didn’t really say. thank you

    Reply
    • heather says

      November 2, 2024 at 3:17 pm

      The step by step instructions are in the post! 🙂

      Reply

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