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Pinning items to your profile

You can pin gists and repositories to your profile so other people can quickly see your best work.

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Pinning items to your profile

  1. In the top right corner of GitHub, click your profile picture, then click Your profile.

    Screenshot of the dropdown menu under @octocat's profile picture. "Your profile" is outlined in dark orange.

  2. At the top of the "Popular repositories" or "Pinned" section, click Customize your pins.

    Screenshot of the "Pinned" section of a user profile. A link, labeled "Customize your pins", is highlighted with an orange outline.

  3. Optionally, to change which items are included in the searchable list, next to "Show", select or deselect Repositories and Gists.

  4. Optionally, to make it easier to find a specific item, in the "Filter repositories and gists" field, type the name of a user, organization, repository, or gist.

  5. Optionally, reorder the items in the "Pinned" section. In the upper-right corner of a pin, click and drag the pin to a new location.

  6. Select up to six repositories and gists, combined.

  7. Click Save pins.

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