Adding one
1
Open Add Channel
Your channels live in the left sidebar. Add Channel sits with them, and it is the same
button for every network: X, a WordPress blog, a Discord server, all of it.
2
Pick the network
You get the list of everything she can post to. What happens next depends on the network, and
there are two kinds:
- Most networks send you to their own login. You approve PostQueen there, the browser comes back, and the channel appears. Nothing to type.
- A smaller group asks for a credential in the form itself. Bluesky takes an app password, WordPress takes a site URL and an application password, Mastodon needs its instance address. You paste it and you are done.
3
Check it arrived
The channel appears in the sidebar with its avatar and name. That is the whole confirmation:
if it is in the list, she can post to it.
Self-hosting? Most networks need an OAuth app that you register with the platform, and its
keys go in your environment before Add Channel can offer that network at all. Each provider
page walks through creating one. On PostQueen Cloud this is already done for you.
The red exclamation mark
Sooner or later a channel wears a red! in the sidebar. It means the connection to that network
has gone stale, usually because the platform expired the token or someone changed the account’s
password.
It matters more than it looks: a dead token stops that channel’s scheduled posts, and they do not
resume on their own once you fix it. Reschedule anything that was waiting.
To fix it, click the avatar, or open the three dots menu next to the channel and pick
Reconnect channel, then walk the same connect flow again. If analytics are what alerted you,
the Refresh Channel button under the empty chart does the same job.
When a post fails covers what a dead token does to a week of
scheduled work, and connect errors has the message-by-message
list when the reconnect itself refuses.
Disable or delete
Two different things, both in the three dots menu next to a channel. Disable Channel takes it out of rotation and frees the slot against your plan’s channel limit, without giving up the connection or touching your posts. The same menu turns it back on later. This is the one you want when you are at a channel limit and expect to come back to the account. Delete Channel removes it for good. Plans and limits has the caps that make Disable worth knowing about.Channels for clients
Running an agency? Channels can be grouped under a customer, and a small person icon joins the calendar toolbar once your channels span more than one. Picking a customer narrows both the calendar and the channel list to theirs. Customers covers the whole flow, including the invite link that lets a client connect their own accounts without seeing yours.Next steps
Write your first post
The editor, per-channel versions and what each network accepts
Set up a network's app
The OAuth app each network wants, network by network
The calendar
Where everything you schedule shows up
When a post fails
Dead tokens, refused posts and how to tell them apart