Your public presence
Your microsite, your public profile and how people find you.
For group owners, admins and staff · 4 min · Updated 2026-07-30
Everything the outside world sees about your group comes from three places in the hub. They overlap enough to be confusing, so start here: this page tells you which is which, and which one a prospective student actually lands on.
The three surfaces
Public profile
Your group's identity card: name, logo, city, contact, social, leader. Feeds everything else.
Microsite
Your own web page, with a template, your colors and your own content.
Directory
The public list and world map where people browse for a group near them.
Public profile — Public profile in the sidebar
One form. Group name, description, logo, city / state / country, email and phone, your social handles, and the nickname and graduation of the group's leader. This data lives on the group itself, so it is the source the other two surfaces read from.
Every group has a public profile from the day it is created, whether or not it has a website. If you only ever fill in one thing, fill in this.
Microsite — Website in the sidebar
An actual web page for your group at roda.ginganation.com/s/<your-slug>: a
template, your colors and logo, an "about us" text, news posts, an agenda, a
council of mestres, a census form. It is Inactive until you switch it on.
The microsite reads your logo, contact details, social links and address from the public profile, and adds everything you write in the Website editor on top.
Directory — the public platform
The list at roda.ginganation.com/grupos and the world map on
roda.ginganation.com. You do not edit the directory directly. It renders your
public profile, and each card links to your microsite if the microsite is
Active.
Which one does a prospect actually land on?
Usually the directory or the map first — that is the page people browse when they are looking for capoeira in their city. From there they click your card and land on your microsite.
If your microsite is Inactive, your directory card is a dead end. It still shows your logo, city and leader, but it is not clickable and has no section links and no address. Turning the site on is what turns the card into a door.
So the order that pays off is:
- Public profile first — it is what makes the card look like a real school.
- Microsite second — it gives the card somewhere to go.
- The directory then takes care of itself.
What is not here
- Events have their own public pages and registration, separate from the microsite's agenda. See Events.
- Class schedules shown on a marketing microsite are not typed into the Website editor — they are read from your classes. See Classes.