Fansly walls are the tabs that divide your profile into sections, such as a main feed, a series or an archive. Each wall is public or private, one public wall is your Main Wall and supplies the posts fans see on their home page, and the first public wall in your list is the view visitors land on. Walls organise posts but do not lock them: who can open each post is still decided by that post's media permissions.
Fansly has three organising tools with confusingly similar names: walls for posts, collections for media on your profile, and albums inside your private vault. This guide separates them, explains how each interacts with subscription tiers and ends with a template for planning your walls. Publishing a post into a wall is covered step by step in how to post on Fansly, and the wider platform in how Fansly works for creators.
Public walls, private walls and the Main Wall
Fansly's Walls on Fansly article sets out the rules. A public wall is visible to anyone who can access your timeline, while a private wall is visible only to you, and a post published only to a private wall does not appear on your profile or in fans' feeds. Every profile must have one Main Wall. It controls what appears in fans' home feeds, new posts go to it by default, and it cannot be made private.
To edit walls, open your profile, click the pencil icon beside the wall list, then the pencil on the wall you want; from there you can rename it, switch it between public and private, or make it the Main Wall. Reorder walls with the four-pointed arrow and drag them into place.
The Creator Hub describes the same control a little differently. Its Wall Albums page calls it the Main Feed and says that setting a wall as Main Feed moves it to the top of your profile, where it becomes the first wall visitors see. The help article says the default profile view is the first public wall in your list, whether or not it is the Main Wall. Both hold if you read them in sequence: choosing a Main Wall puts it first, but if you reorder afterwards, visitors see whichever public wall now sits at the top.
The Posts wall and private archives
One wall is fixed. According to the Wall Albums page, every post you publish is added to your Posts wall automatically and this cannot be turned off; it is your permanent archive for finding, editing and deleting old posts. If you would rather fans did not browse it, the Creator Hub's order is: create a new public wall, copy your existing posts into it when prompted, move it to the top of the list, assign a new Main Feed, and only then set Posts to private.
Private walls work as internal storage. The same page suggests them for archiving old drops or material that no longer fits your page, since you can still post to them and move content in and out. The help article's warning runs the other way: making a private wall public exposes every post on it at once to anyone who can reach your profile, so review the media permissions on those posts before you flip the switch.
Private walls also let you reach new fans without cluttering your profile. Fansly's For You Page article describes posting to the FYP only: make the Posts wall private with a different Main Wall, tick Post to FYP, and either unselect every wall or choose a private one. The walls article adds that promoted posts appear on the FYP whatever wall they sit on, and fans can still like and bookmark them there.
What visitors see when your feed is locked
Wall names are public copy. Fansly's Getting Started article says profile details and wall album titles remain visible unless a user is blocked or geoblocked, even when you restrict your feed. The Creator Hub page on best practices for conversion treats that as an opportunity: titles show above the locked part of your feed, so they tell a non-subscriber what kinds of content you offer.
Name walls for the visitor who cannot see inside them. A title such as Weekly sets or Behind the scenes describes a promise; a private joke describes nothing. Keep titles within the same standards as your public bio, because they display to everyone who can load your profile.
Pins follow walls. The walls article says pins are unique to each wall, so a post you want pinned in two places has to be pinned in each. Fansly's pinning article allows up to 25 pinned posts, while the conversion page advises keeping to one or two so new visitors are not overwhelmed. The limit is what the system allows; the advice is what reads well.
Walls and tiers: a label is not a lock
The Creator Hub suggests organising walls by theme or by access level, such as free, subscriber-only or VIP. That works as navigation, but the walls article is clear that access to each post is still controlled through media permissions. A wall titled for one tier does not stop anyone else opening a post on it; the post's own permissions do.
The practical fix is to pair every access-based wall with a permission preset. Fansly's permissions guide describes Save Preset and Load Preset for reusing a permission set, so a post headed for a tier wall gets the same rules every time. Then check the result with View Media As. How tiers and their permissions behave is covered in Fansly subscription tiers explained.
Collections and vault albums compared
Collections are albums of media on your profile. Fansly's collections article says you create one with the plus icon on your profile page, tick a box to make it public, and add media by tapping the bookmark icon on an item in your timeline. The media keeps its original permissions, which update automatically if you change them, and any free preview shows in the collection until a fan qualifies to unlock the item.
Do not confuse those with a fan's Media Collection. That is the page where buyers keep what they have purchased, which Fansly's sold-media articles describe as permanent. Your collections are presentation; their Media Collection is ownership.
The vault is private. Fansly's Media Vault article says everything you upload anywhere on Fansly is saved there automatically, in default All, Posts and Messages albums, and you can add custom albums whose names and descriptions only you can see. Uploading straight into the vault lets processing finish before you need a file. For an album-naming system, the OnlyFans vault organisation system transfers well.
| Tool | What it groups | Who can see the names | Does it control access? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public wall | Posts, shown as a tab on your profile | Anyone who can load your profile | No; each post's permissions decide |
| Private wall | Posts kept off your profile and feeds | Only you | It hides the posts from browsing, but not from the FYP if you promote them |
| Collection | Individual media items, as an album | Visitors, if you tick the public box | No; items keep their original permissions |
| Vault album | Your uploaded files, for reuse in posts and messages | Only you | No; it is storage, not a storefront |
One housekeeping detail from the vault article: removing a file from one album does not delete it. If you no longer want something in your vault, it has to be removed from every album it appears in.
Wall plan template
Plan walls before you build them, because renaming and reshuffling a live profile confuses fans who have learned where things are. Fill one row per wall; the example rows show the kind of decision each column needs.
| Wall | Public or private | Permission preset on its posts | Content type | Update cadence | Pin plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start here (Main Wall) | Public, top of the list | Your everyday mix, previews included | Newest posts | Your normal posting rhythm | One welcome post explaining what each wall holds |
| Weekly sets | Public | Subscribers, with each tier named | The series your base tier promises | Whatever the tier benefits say | The latest set only |
| Upper-tier archive | Public, so its title advertises the tier | The upper tier named on every post | Back catalogue | When you retire older sets | None |
| Menus and info | Public | Open to everyone | Tip menu, schedule, rules for customs | Whenever prices or hours change | Current menu |
| FYP drops | Private | Free preview plus your sale or tier rule | Posts made for discovery | Per your FYP plan | Not applicable |
| Posts (system wall) | Your choice, private once a new Main Wall exists | Inherits each post's own rules | Everything, automatically | Automatic | Leave empty |
Before you publish the new layout, run through this checklist:
- Exactly one Main Wall, and it is public.
- The wall you want visitors to see first sits at the top of the list.
- Every access-based wall has a matching permission preset.
- Wall titles make sense to someone who cannot open anything.
- Each wall has no more pins than a newcomer can take in.
- Posts are copied into new walls rather than reposted, as the Wall Albums page recommends.
- Any private wall you are about to make public has been checked post by post.
- A sample post on each wall has been checked with View Media As.
Limitations of this guide
This explainer is based on Fansly's help centre and Creator Hub as they read on 1 October 2026. The two sources use different names for the same features, Main Wall and Main Feed among them, and some help articles link to pages that no longer load, so menu labels in your dashboard may not match either exactly. The template rows are examples to adapt, not a recommended structure, and nothing in it predicts how a layout will perform with your audience.
It also assumes the platform behaves as documented. Before a reorganisation that touches paid content, check a few posts as each audience type and keep a note of the permissions you changed, so you can put things back if a fan reports lost access.