Can I arrange repositories into folders on Github?

Question

I am new to git and what I am doing now is to upload all my recent projects as repositories to github. There are a lot of different projects like webdesign, wordpress themes

Answer 1

Drawbacks with the Projects approach include:

1. The project (i.e. "folder") in which a repo resides isn't usually visible, for example in the Homepage or your Profile. To make this visible in those places would require a manual tag in the repo's name, for example like @peter554 suggests. But then changing the "folder" (i.e. project) requires changing both the project and the manual tag in the repo's name.
2. You cannot add forks to a project.

These problems are not present with the Organizations approach. However:

• Your "foldered" repos will disappear from your account profile page. But organisations can be made visible there by becoming a public member. (can be set under "people" within organizations)