How to Organize Your Pinterest Boards
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!
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:
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Alphabetical order
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Most recently saved to
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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:
- It makes it easier to pin, because boards are all alphabetized
- It’s easier to find your saved pins on a given topic, by searching for the alphabetized board name
- 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:
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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Thanks so much for linking up Paula!!
Thanks for hosting. I am now following all of you and look forward to seeing all of your boards!
Yay – thanks for sharing here Cynthia!!
Thanks so much, Heather. I’m following lots of new boards now! Happy New Year!
Thanks for linking up your Pinterest board Tanya!!
I’m following everyone here – great Boards everyone!
I’m following everyone but will come back later to see if more linked up. Happy Saturday and thanks for hosting!
Thanks Ann for linking up!!
I’m caught up again with everyone here that linked up!! Wow – great Pinterest boards everyone – so inspirational!!
Hi Heather-
Thank you so much for hosting. I just joined in-
Laura
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Thanks for hosting, Heather!!
Thanks For Hosting! I followed everyone and am looking forward to seeing what everyone is pinning!
Thanks for the party! I am following everyone!
Followed you too Diana – great boards 😀
My first linky party and I screwed up my image! Sorry!
No worries!
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.
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.
I’ve been doing this since I opened my account years ago. Damned OCD!!! Hahaha
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!
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!
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/
Thanks for your tips Juliette!
I just named mine eith a lead word so they are all together alphabetically.
Thanks for the directions on moving the boards.
You are so welcome Lynne!!
How do you backup your pinterest boards?
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!
Is there a way to rearrange the boards on a IPad? No computer.
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!
Why can’t I alphabetize all my boards? Some won’t move. Thanks
I’m not sure why some won’t move – I haven’t had that happen, sorry! I hope you can figure it out!
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).
Thank you soo much !! thank you for youR time and needed info,– 🙂
You’re welcome – glad my post has helped! 🙂
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 —
You’d just have to move them around into groups – such as all of your food boards all together. I hope that helps!
Do you have any tips for alphabetizing using the app for android?
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!
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!
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!
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?
No I don’t use my iPad to move my boards Lois. Have a great day!
Thank you so much! I didn’t know how to do this and it was irritating when it wasn’t in alphabetical order!
You’re welcome Dianne! Glad it helped you out! 🙂
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?
Hi Lu – it’s probably a glitch with Pinterest. Try in a couple of days to see if it works!
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!!!!!!!!!!!!
Pinterest recently changed things! Boards can’t be arranged. I’m hoping they fix it soon!
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!
Yes Jamie I agree! Pinterest doesn’t allow us to organize our boards alphabetically anymore – it’s a new change they implemented!
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
Hi Linda – Pinterest just recently changed things. It’s frustrating I agree!
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?
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!!
THANKS FOR SHARING
You’re welcome!
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!!
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
The step by step instructions are in the post! 🙂