Connecting your social channels to publish automatically

Answer

Want generated posts to appear on your social media automatically? Connect your channels on the Publishing Channels page. Go to Settings > Publishing Channels. You connect Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and TikTok there through bundle.social, and you connect X and YouTube directly from Identity First Media.

Connecting Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and TikTok

These four channels run through bundle.social, a secure connection service that handles the login for you.

1. Go to Settings > Publishing Channels.
2. Under Connect your social accounts, click Connect. If you have already connected an account, the button is labeled Add channel.
3. You are taken to bundle.social. Sign in to the channel you want to connect and grant permission.
4. Once approved, you return automatically. The account appears with a green checkmark and your username.

Connecting X and YouTube

You publish to X and YouTube directly from Identity First Media.

1. On the same page, go to the Direct connections block.
2. Click Connect next to X or YouTube.
3. Sign in to the platform and grant access. The channel is now connected.

Having posts published automatically

Connecting alone does not post anything yet. You decide per post what happens:

1. Go to Social Posts in the sidebar.
2. Click Schedule on a post. A week strip appears showing seven days side by side. Each day shows colored dots in your channel colors, so you can see at a glance how busy each day already is. Click any day to see the exact times scheduled for that day, including the title of each planned post. That way you never accidentally stack two similar posts on the same day. Use the arrow buttons to browse to the next or previous week. When you pick a time of your own, it appears as an open dot labeled "Your chosen time". If nothing is planned on a day yet, you see the message "Nothing scheduled on {day} yet, a free day."
3. Under Publishing, choose Automatic. bundle.social then posts it for you at the chosen time. This option is only available for connected channels: Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and TikTok.
4. Posting to X or YouTube, or is the channel not connected yet? Choose Manual. You get a reminder with ready-made text and media, and post it yourself.

Disconnecting a channel

On Publishing Channels, click the disconnect icon next to a connected channel. Confirm in the Disconnect channel? dialog. Scheduled posts to that channel are cancelled. You can reconnect the channel at any time.

Tips

• The same week strip appears when you schedule a video clip for social media on the Video Clips page. What you see there matches exactly what you see here, so your planning is always consistent across both pages.
• At the top of the Social Posts page, the Connected channels: row shows at a glance what is connected. Click that row to jump straight to Publishing Channels.
• Just want your profile links in your website footer? That is set up separately under Settings > Social Media, and is unrelated to connecting for publishing.