5 steps to get started using Post Planner
To get started using Post Planner, you need to complete these 5 steps:
- ⚙️ Connect your Social Accounts
- 🌅 Organize your Content Sources
- 🪣 Set up your Post Buckets
- ⏰ Create and Schedule 50 Posts
- 📈 Analyze (and re-use) your Historical Posts
1. ⚙️ Connect your social accounts
TIP: for more details, read: 👤 How do I connect my social accounts?
Connecting your socials to Post Planner is easy!
You can connect 7 social networks in Post Planner:
- Google Business
- TikTok
Go to Settings > Social Networks and click "Connect" on the network you want to connect. You must be logged in to the social network on the same browser.
IMPORTANT: be sure to allow ALL permissions Post Planner asks for. We ask for the minimum permissions needed to make Post Planner work. If you don't allow all permissions, your posts won't publish properly.
2. 🌅 Organize your content sources
TIP: for more details, read 🌅 How do I find content for my posts?
There are many ways to find content in Post Planner.
The best way to find viral content is to use these 4 sources:
Post Planner lets you combine these sources into collections called "Streams".
For example, you can add your favorite 10 Facebook pages, 5 LinkedIn pages, 5 subreddits and 3 blog feeds into a single stream of content.
Then you can see the best content from ALL 23 feeds at once — and sort the content by Likes, shares, etc.
Over the years, Post Planner users have created tens of thousands of Streams (on all topics imaginable). You have access to all of them here:
If you find a stream you like, click "Save" to add it to your streams.
You can think of Streams like playlists in Spotify. When you create a Stream in Post Planner, you own it — and only you can edit it and improve it.
Or you can follow Streams from other Post Planner users — to leverage their expertise.
But Streams aren't the only tool available in Content. You can also:
- Upload and organize your own media in your Library
- Search for content by keyword for your posts
- Create and edit images in our Studio media editor
3. 🪣 Set up your post buckets
TIP: for more details, read 🪣 How do I use "buckets" to categorize posts?
Post buckets help you organize your posts into categories so you can automate the perfect mix of content.
You can create a bucket on any topic and then fill it with posts.
To start publishing a bucket's posts, just link the bucket a time slot in your Posting Plan.
For example, I've linked my bucket "Cat images" to the 5am slot here:
You can also set posts in your buckets to recycle, if needed.
If you want to reuse a post that already posted from the bucket, you can add it back anytime — from the "Posted" view:
4. ⏰ Create and schedule a month of posts
TIP: for more details, read: ✏️ How do I create & schedule posts?
Post Planner's post composer makes it easy to create posts — A LOT of posts!
Read this tutorial to learn the quickest ways:
📬 What are 5 ways to add posts quickly?
The tutorial will show you how to:
- Create posts with multiple images from your computer
- Create posts with multiple articles from any RSS feed (including your blog)
- Create posts with multiple content from the Content tool
For more details on mastering the post composer, read this tutorial:
5. 📈 Analyze (and re-use) your posts
TIP: for more details, read: 📈 How do analyze and re-use my past posts?
To analyze your published posts, go to History in the Posts section.
Select a single profile (in the sidebar) and then choose the Posted via: Any Publisher option. Post Planner will pull in ALL your old posts.
Click "Refresh posts" to refresh anytime.
Once your posts are visible, you can sort them by Likes, shares, etc.
Use the checkboxes to choose posts you want to re-use — and then "Copy" or "Re-queue" the posts via the "bulk" button.
TIP: use "Copy" to copy the posts to your Buckets!