Write and schedule a post
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Open the composer
Choose Create Post. The arrow next to it offers Blank post, AI post and Plan with AI Copilot: AI post opens Write a post with AI, and Plan with AI Copilot opens the AI Copilot page. On a phone, Create Post is a plus button that opens a Create sheet with the same three choices. If your workspace has saved sets, Select a Set opens first: pick one, or choose Continue without set.
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Pick your channels
Click the channel avatars under Post to. Until one is picked, the editor reads “Select a channel to create a post.” and the main button reads Select Channels and stays disabled. Once your channels are in more than one customer group, Select Customer picks all of one customer’s channels at once.
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Write the post
You start on the All channels tab: the shared post goes to every picked channel. Add pictures or video with Insert Media, by dropping files on the editor, or by pasting them. To attach comments or a thread, see Comments and threads.
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Fill in each channel's settings
The Settings section under the editor holds one card per picked channel that has options, such as a title or a post type. Open each card and fill in what the network requires.
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Pick the time and save
The date chip starts on the first free quarter hour, one to four hours from now. Change it if you like, then choose Schedule. The toast confirms the time, and the post goes out at that minute.
Give one channel its own version
The tabs above the editor start with All channels, followed by one tab per picked channel. On All channels, “Edits here reach every channel without its own version”.1
Open the channel's tab
Click the channel’s tab. A card says the channel uses the shared post.
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Write its version
Choose Write a separate version. The channel takes a copy of the shared text, and from then on your edits there reach only that channel. Its tab carries an Own version chip, and the line above the editor says that only this channel gets this version.
@ and two or more characters to look up accounts on networks that support mentions. On X, each lookup is charged in credits: see Credits.
Give each channel its own time
A new post goes out on all its channels at the same time. Once it is saved, each channel can have its own time:1
Open the post
Open the post from the calendar. The composer loads every channel the post was saved for together, each with its own version and time.
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Pick a channel
Click the channel’s tab above the editor. The date chip now reads Time for and the channel’s name.
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Change its time and save
The new time moves only that channel. The others keep theirs. Choose Update to save.
Posts to X use credits
X charges PostQueen for every post published through its API, so a post with an X channel takes credits from your workspace’s balance, set aside when you save it. When you choose Schedule, Post now or Update and the save needs more credits set aside than the post already has, a Publishing uses credits window shows what it takes and Balance after:, then asks you to confirm with the same button. A post whose text has a link costs far more than one without, and the window says so. With too few credits, it reads Not enough credits and offers Get more credits to admins, or Back. Drafts and Social Sets ask nothing, and editing a scheduled post reuses what it already set aside. Prices are on Credits.Format the text
Select text, then use the buttons under the editor:- Bold Text (Ctrl+B, or ⌘B on a Mac) and Underline (Ctrl+U, or ⌘U). Text is bold or underlined, not both: turning one on turns the other off.
- Link, Bullets and Title (headings 1 to 3) appear only on a channel’s own tab, for WordPress, Listmonk, DEV, Hashnode, Discord, Whop and X.
Only the letters A to Z and the digits 0 to 9 have a Unicode bold or underlined form. Accented letters, other alphabets and symbols stay as you typed them.
Text in a right-to-left language, such as Arabic, Hebrew or Persian, sets its own direction. Each paragraph and heading follows the language it starts with, in the editor and in the previews, so a post can mix right-to-left and left-to-right paragraphs.
Pictures inside the text
WordPress, Listmonk and an X Article publish the post as a page, so on their own tab pictures go inside the text. Insert Media, an upload, a drop or a paste puts the picture where the cursor is, and you can drag it to another place in the text. Only pictures go in the text there: anything else is refused with “Only images can be added to the content”. On X this applies when Post Type is Article (long-form). See WordPress, Listmonk and X.Put media in order
Drag a thumbnail under the editor to move it. The files are published in this order: it is the slide order of an Instagram carousel, and the first image is the cover of a TikTok photo post.Thumbnails and alt text
When the post has media, the Settings section under the editor starts with Thumbnails & alt text. Click a file there to set its alt text, or a video’s thumbnail, in the same Media Settings window that a file’s Edit button opens. With comments, each one’s files are listed under its own label. Media library has the steps.- A thumbnail applies to a video in the main post and is sent to every network that takes one.
- On YouTube it becomes the video’s thumbnail, which needs a phone-verified channel. YouTube may ignore it on a video it treats as a Short (vertical, up to 3 minutes). If YouTube refuses the thumbnail, the video is still published.
- An older YouTube post that has a thumbnail in its YouTube settings keeps it: “This post has a YouTube-specific thumbnail, which overrides the thumbnail set in the media settings.” Remove drops it, and the media thumbnail is used.
The other controls at the bottom
Repeat a post
Open the repeat control (it reads Doesn’t repeat), then pick how often: Every Day, Every Two Days, Every Three Days, Every Four Days, Every Five Days, Every Six Days, Every Week, Every Two Weeks or Every Month. The control then shows your choice. Schedule the post as usual.- After each publish, PostQueen waits the interval and publishes the same post again on each of its channels. It never stops by itself. The interval counts from the last publish, and Every Month is every 30 days.
- Every repeat is a normal publish: it sends notices, calls your webhooks and shows on the calendar.
- Before the first publish, stop the repeat by opening the post, choosing Clear at the bottom of the same menu, then Update.
- Once the post has gone out, the repeat menu is gone. To stop the repeat, open the post and choose Stop repeating, next to Delete Post. “Stop repeating this post?” asks you to confirm: “It will not be posted again. Everything it already published stays published.” Choose Stop repeating, and “This post no longer repeats” confirms it. The calendar then shows the post on its first date only.
- Each channel’s copy repeats on its own, so stop it on each channel it repeats on. If it cannot be stopped, the message says why, or reads “Could not stop this post from repeating, please try again”.
Good to know
- The right column opens on AI Copilot, which is locked during the free trial, and switches to Post Preview once the post has text or media. See AI Copilot.
- The badge under the editor counts characters against each channel’s limit, and its details name any channel under Links will be removed from or Comments cannot be published on.
- PostQueen does not shorten links today. Links are published as you wrote them, and Settings has no Shortlink Settings card.
- An existing post opens as Edit Post. A scheduled post saves with Update and a draft with Schedule. Updating a post whose time has passed asks whether to Just update the post details or Republish the post.
- A post that failed opens with a banner above the editor: “This post didn’t go out on”, the date, the reason, and “Fix it, then schedule it again or post it now.” See A post did not go out.
- On X, the settings card has Add Re-posters: pick a Delay and your other X channels under Accounts that will engage: and they repost the post. X can be connected once the free trial ends, or right away if you end the trial early.
Open a published post
A published post opens without the scheduling controls. Its buttons are:- Post again: pick a time in the Post it again window and choose Schedule again. “What is already out stays live on the network. In PostQueen the post moves to the time you pick and goes out again then, so its link and statistics start over.” A repeating post does not show it.
- Duplicate Post: opens a copy, with what is in the editor, as a new post.
- Go to post: opens the live post on the network, once it has a link.
- Delete from PostQueen: asks “Delete from PostQueen?” and explains: “It stays live on the network. PostQueen removes it from your calendar and stops any repeats.”
If something goes wrong
Next steps
Comments and threads
Add a first comment or continue a thread, with a delay between parts.
The calendar
Find the post, move it to another time, preview or share it.
Media library
Upload pictures and video once and reuse them in any post.
All channels
What each network can post, and how to connect it.