How do I create a post to share on social media?

You can schedule unlimited posts to be shared across all your connected social media profiles in SocialOmm. 

In order to create a post, you need to have first added at least one social media profile - read this article to learn how.

When you create a new post, you can choose to save the post to your Calendar or a Post Group. We've included steps for each one:

• 🗓 Save Post to Calendar
• 🗂 Save Post to Post Group

🗓 Save Post to Calendar

To create a post that saves to your calendar, follow these steps:

1. Click Create a new post in the top menu of your SocialOmm account.
   You can also click the Add post button from your calendar:
2. In the Add A New Post slideout, the 'Save to' option will have 'Calendar' selected by default:
   
3. Before 'Send to', select the social profiles you want to share the post to:
4. Click the image placeholder and select an image from your Media Library to add to your post:
5. Enter some text for your post in the text area provided:

   The icons above the text area allow you to do the following:

   	Insert emojis into your post
   	'Auto-magically' inserts relevant hashtags into your post
   	Shortens links in your post.

6. To add your logo watermark to your post, turn on the Watermark toggle. 
   
   – Click the image placeholder to upload your logo (PNG file works best).
   – Use the Position setting to change the position of your watermark.
   – The Background setting lets you choose a background color of your logo (this only works for PNG). If you don't want a background, leave as 'transparent'.
   – The Padding % setting lets you add a padding/space around the logo.
   – The Width % setting lets you set the width of your logo.
   – The  Set as default option allows you to retain these settings when you add a watermark to future post images.If you need more help adding your logo watermark, see this article to learn more.

7. Next to  Schedule for later, select the date and time you want to schedule your post for. Turn this toggle off if you want to send the post now.

8. Click Schedule. Your post will appear on the calendar on the day/time scheduled.

🗂 Save Post To Post Group

To create a post that saves to a post group, follow these steps:

1. Click Create a new post in the top menu of your SocialOmm account.
   
2. In the Add A New Post slideout, for 'Save to' click 'Group':
   
3. Click the image placeholder and select an image from your Media Library to add to your post:
4. Enter some text for your post in the text area provided:The icons above the text area allow you to do the following:
   

   	Insert emojis into your post
   	'Auto-magically' inserts relevant hashtags into your post
   	Shortens links in your post.

5. To add your logo watermark to your post, turn on the Watermark toggle. 
   
   – Click the image placeholder to  upload your logo (PNG file works best).
   – Use the  Position setting to change the position of your watermark.
   – The  Background setting lets you choose a background color of your logo (this only works for PNG). If you don't want a background, leave as 'transparent'.
   – The  Padding % setting lets you add a padding/space around the logo.
   – The  Width % setting lets you set the width of your logo.
   – The Set as default option allows you to retain these settings when you add a watermark to future post images.If you need more help adding your logo watermark, see this article to learn more.
6. Below Save in Post Group, select the group you want to save the post to:
7. Select the status of the post to 'as Draft' or 'as Approved'. If you save as a draft, the post will be added to the selected group in the 'Drafts' tab and will not be scheduled for sharing until approved. If you save as approved, the post will be scheduled for sharing as per your group's posting schedule:
8. Below Repeat this post, select the post repetition. If you don't want the post to repeat, leave as 'Don't repeat - only send once'. If you do want to repeat the sharing of this post as per your group's sharing schedule, choose the number of times you want to repeat the post. This option is great to recycling posts and filling gaps in your schedule.
9. Click Save. Your post will be added to the group you selected and you can now view it in Post Groups. If you set the status of your post to 'approved', the post will also appear on your calendar so you can see when it's next due to be scheduled for sharing.