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How To Use The Social Planner
How To Use The Social Planner
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Written by Champ
Updated over 2 months ago

Social Planner - Overview

In this particular section, you can oversee your various social media platforms, enabling you to publish content on Facebook, Instagram, and even Google My Business!

Additionally, you can efficiently manage your posting schedule by utilizing the calendar feature, which provides you with a comprehensive weekly and/or monthly overview of your planned posts across all channels. This ensures a well-organized and consistent social media presence for your brand.

Depending on your user permissions, you may not have access to all of the components.

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List Of Connected Accounts

Once you are done connecting your accounts, you'll be ready to start posting! To keep track of each one, you can find them listed in the three sections on the left side of the page. These three sections include a dropdown menu where you can toggle on and off social media channels, a connected socials counter box, and the accounts stats table. This allows for easy navigation and tailoring of content to reach more potential audiences.

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Adding Accounts

To connect a new account click on the two triangles icon, this will open the list of currently connected accounts. In the list click Add Account

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Select the desired account from the pop-up menu and login as usual to connect it.

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Post Statistics

Here you can see the amount of likes, comments, and shares your posts have received. The statistics shown will be for the top-performing posts based on likes or recently published Posts.

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Post Schedule & Planner

When you're ready to start scheduling your posts, click the 'Open Planner' button.

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A calendar view will appear on your screen. Here you can assign social media posts to their respective days of the week or month and ensure they’re ready to be published on your page or group. Previously published posts will also be visible here, including the engagement they received.

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Social Planner Settings

To manage the social Planner settings, click on the "Gear" button to make edits. Once you click on the Gear button, it directs you to the settings page where you can manage your social accounts and notifications.

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Creating Posts

By clicking on +New Post you can create and publish posts for the connected accounts.

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Viewing and Managing Posts

By scrolling down on the main page you'll find all your posts, even if unpublished, separated into different categories for you to preview, approve, and manage.

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And there you have it! Now that you've got the basis down you can use your Social Planner to become a Social Media Superstar and keep an active, relevant, and fresh presence. If you'd like to know more about how to post to specific social media please take a look around this category!

How To Create A New Post

When you're ready to publish new content, all you have to do is click the blue "New Post" button in the top right corner of your page. Alternatively, there's also a "New Post" link at the bottom of your posts list.

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Then you can click on “Create New Post” in this next step.

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New Social Post

Select the social media accounts or groups you want to share the post to.

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Type in the text content you'd like to publish. You can also add rich media, hashtags, and more in this field.

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Get creative with adding formatting elements like bolded and italicized text, images, and even videos before hitting the “Save” or “Post” button!

With the icons below you can personalize the post even more, this is what each of them does:

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  1. Modifies the look of selected text by making it Bold.

  2. Modifies the look of selected text by making it Italic.

  3. Add Emojis to your post, these are the standard emojis so they are visible across all devices.

  4. Add Images to your post, here you have the option to create them using AI or upload them from your Media Library.

  5. Add videos to your post, this redirects you to your Media Library so you can select from the ones you have or upload a new one.

  6. Add hashtags to your posts, these option also lets you save frequently used ones for easy access.

  7. Quickly access your Custom Values here.

  8. Here you can tag a location to make your post easier to find, this is available for Facebook and Instagram posts.

  9. This is your AI tool, with it you can get your captions written or corrected simplifying the post-creation process.

Google My Business Options

If you select Google Business Profile (formerly known as Google My Business), you can choose between Call to Action, Event, or Offer options. Additionally, you can select the appropriate button label.

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Preview

You can preview all your content here before you post it.

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Advanced Options

You will be able to “Apply Watermark”, select “Category” and add “Tags” also, under the “Advanced Options”.

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Save For Later

You can save this update as a draft until you are ready to post it.

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Post

When you click on the "Post" button, it gives you three (3) different sending options and delete options to choose from:

Post Now: This will allow you to send this post to the selected social channels/accounts.

Schedule Post: This will allow you to schedule a post for a later date or time. Choose the date and time from the calendar and time slot.

Send Post for Approval: This allows you to send for approval first within your agency or organization. Choose the date and time from the calendar and time slot, and select an approver. You can add notes as well.

Schedule Recurring Posts: This feature allows you to schedule a post to recur within a specific time frame of your choosing.

Delete: If you want to delete any of your content, click on the delete button, which shows the "Delete confirmation" page. Be sure to want to delete it because it can't be undone.

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Upload from CSV

Click on the "New Post" button and select the "Upload from CSV" button to direct you to the upload page.

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Upload

The date format accepted is YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss. Use the 24-hour format. (example 2025/05/23 20:15)

The Text column will support captions and hashtags.

In the link column, it is an OG meta tag, and it accepts one link.

The image and video column will accept the multiple image(s) and video(s) comma-separated. For GIF, it will support one GIF only.

CSV import supports up to 90 posts per CSV.

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Once you have uploaded the CSV file, click the 'Next' button.

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Select Socials

Once the user adds the CSV file and Selects the Socials, there will be an option to Select an Approver.

Once the posts are imported, they are reviewed by the chosen approver. Once approved, they are scheduled on the social calendar.

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