Scheduling

Set your posting times

On Posts, open the posting-times editor and add weekday + time slots to build a weekly cadence — Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9am, for example, or a slot every weekday morning. These slots are what queued posts fill in. Set your timezonetoo; it’s auto-detected from your browser, but you can change it if you’re scheduling for a different audience.

When each post goes out

When you queue a post, you choose how it lands in your cadence:

• Auto (next open slot) — takes whichever slot in your weekly cadence is soonest and still open.
• Pin to a slot — locks the post to a specific slot in your cadence, even if an earlier one is open.
• Custom date & time — skips your cadence entirely and sends the post at an exact date and time you pick.

Post now, queue, or draft

Every post you write ends with one of three actions:

• Post now— publishes immediately to every account you’ve selected.
• Add to queue — schedules the post using the placement you chose, and it shows up under Posts → Queue.
• Save draft — keeps the post unpublished and unscheduled, under Posts → Drafts, so you can come back and finish it later.

If you haven’t set any posting times yet, queueing with Auto (next open slot)prompts you to add some first — there’s nowhere for the post to land until your cadence exists.

Related

• Bulk scheduling — queue many posts at once instead of one at a time.
• Manage your posts— track, reschedule, and review what you’ve published or queued.