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Canva Content Planner | Schedule Social Media Posts in Canva

August 18, 2020 by Simplifying DIY Design 13 Comments

Last updated on October 19th, 2022

Planning your social media content is now easier than ever with the Canva Content Planner! Save even more of your valuable time when making your social media graphics by never having to leave the Canva platform!

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We’re ALL about saving time when it comes to design. But social media? Totally different ballgame.

Social media can be such a time-suck when you’re switching between so many different windows.

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Open a window, find the image. Open another window, grab the copy. Oh, and open yet another window to double-check your Canva content planner.

So, when a little pop-up alerted us of a new feature inside of Canva, we were all over it.

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Planning your social media content is now easier than ever with the Canva Content Planner! Plan, schedule, and post as you design right inside of Canva.

Turns out, the Canva Content Planner actually lets you post your designs directly to the social media platform of your choice.

Between using a design template and then scheduling directly inside Canva, the time-saving potentials are endless!

WHAT PLATFORMS CAN YOU SCHEDULE FROM CANVA?

Don’t you hate when you sign up for a social media scheduler thinking you’ll have access to ALL the platforms but instead have to pay for each one? Yeah, you’re not alone.

When the Canva Content Planner first launched, you had access to almost all of them for no additional fee. The only one missing was Instagram.

But, as of April 2022, we can schedule to ALL the major social media platforms (and more):

  • Facebook Page
  • Facebook Group
  • Instagram (Business Account)
  • Twitter
  • Pinterest
  • Linkedin
  • Tumblr
  • Slack

Before we jump into this incredible Canva feature, we need to add a little disclaimer.

The Canva Content Planner is available for CANVA PRO users ONLY. Fortunately, you can try Canva Pro FREE for 30 days!

Start your FREE Canva Pro trial today and unlock ALL of their incredible time-saving features, including the Canva Content Planner.

STEP ONE: COMPLETE YOUR DESIGN

Step one is kind of obvious because you don’t want to post your design before it’s complete!

If you find yourself staring at a blank page (aka blank page paralysis), you may want to consider purchasing a template pack as your jumping-off point.

While you don’t own or control your social media accounts (unlike email), it’s still an incredible way to bring oodles of traffic to your blog.

Related Post: How to Drive Massive Traffic by Nailing Your Social Media Graphics

But, like most things, it’s easier said than done. We always recommend investing just a few dollars in an excellent template pack to help get the ball rolling.

STEP TWO: CLICK ‘SCHEDULE’ LOCATED IN THE DROPDOWN BOX

Once your design is complete, it’s time to schedule your post using the Canva Content Planner!

Click ‘Share’ from the top righthand corner of your project screen and then ‘Schedule.’

Canva recently cleaned up their menu banner, so if you can’t find a button that used to be there, check ‘Share’ or ‘File.’

STEP THREE: CHOOSE YOUR DATE AND TIME

Once you click ‘Schedule,’ choose the date and time you want your design published. From there, select ‘Done.’

Smooth sailing so far, don’t you think

STEP FOUR: SCHEDULE AND CONNECT ACCOUNTS

NOTE: If this is your first time scheduling a design with the Canva Content Planner, you’ll need to connect your account(s).

Click ‘+ Select a channel’ and then follow the prompts to connect that particular account.

Now, you’re probably wondering how Pinterest works. You can choose which BOARD to pin! Just scroll through your boards and click the one you want. That’s it!

STEP FIVE: FILL IN YOUR CONTENT

Once the connection is complete, you’ll see the account you’re posting to. Under that, choose the page within your design you want to publish. Lastly, write a juicy post description and click ‘Schedule post.’

The best part about scheduling in the Canva Content Planner is saving time.

Our Canva account has SO many folders (organization!), and our designs have multiple pages. It was pretty time-consuming to locate a design, open it, find the page we want, and then download just one page.

Write a compelling post description

End the post with a quick call-to-action or CTA. We love to use questions to help our readers start the conversation in the comments.

If posting to Facebook, add the link to the description, and it’ll convert into a hyperlink upon publishing.

If pinning to Pinterest, you’ll see a ‘Destination link’ section. Add the link that ties to your image, such as a blog post or landing page.

Finally, click ‘Schedule,’ and you’re done! How cool is that?

INSIDE THE CANVA CONTENT PLANNER

Once you schedule your post, a pop-up will appear asking if you want to go to your Canva Content Planner. Here you’ll see your scheduled posts, be able to edit your scheduled posts, and plan ahead.

You can also access your Canva Content Planner by clicking on “Content Planner” in the main menu.

If you want to edit your scheduled post, click on the image and again on the three horizontal dots to the right of the scheduled date.

Planning your social media content is now easier than ever with the Canva Content Planner! Plan, schedule, and post as you design right inside of Canva.

You can also plan ahead by hovering over the coming day and clicking on the “+” sign that shows up in the corner.

We’re all about saving time when it comes to social media design!

This is why we love templates and finding shortcuts and hacks to save you time. As full-time business owners (and many other hats!), we can use ANY shortcut we get.

Scheduling your posts directly within Canva ONCE and you’re done is such an awesome tool.

We’d love to know how you’ll use all this saved time with the Canva Content Planner in your business!

RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS POST:

  • FREE Design Vault
  • How to Drive Massive Traffic by Nailing Your Social Media Graphics
  • Canva Shortcuts That Will Help You Design Faster
  • FREE Social Media Template Pack
  • Best Features for Editing Design Templates In Canva
  • FREE Canva Tricks Cheatsheet
  • 3 Quick and Easy Ways to Resize in Canva

Don’t forget to grab our Social Media Template Pack now! These fully editable Canva templates will help you create your next Pinterest pin, social media post, or promo graphic!

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Start your FREE Canva Pro trial today and unlock ALL of their incredible time-saving features that cut your design time to just minutes.

To be honest? It’s the best $12.99/mo OR $119/yr we spend on our business because that time we save with every design is put back into making MORE money in your business!

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Planning your social media content is now easier than ever with the Canva Content Planner! Plan, schedule, and post as you design right inside of Canva.

Filed Under: Design Tutorials, Social Media

Comments

  1. karafidd says

    June 1, 2021 at 4:05 pm

    You’re correct! Scheduling is a Canva Pro feature 🙂

    Reply
  2. karafidd says

    June 1, 2021 at 4:04 pm

    You’ll have to make a copy of graphic for each different platform that you want to post to (file -> make a copy) OR wait until after it’s published to the first platform, then you’ll be able to publish it to the next platform

    Reply
  3. karafidd says

    June 1, 2021 at 4:01 pm

    You can de-activate anything you’ve connected via your Canva account settings 🙂

    Reply
  4. Annalisa Bellucci says

    May 27, 2021 at 3:44 pm

    I need to post on a LinkedIn Page and need to tag people and companies in my post text.
    If I compose the text directly on LinkedIn adding @ in front of names allow me to select the correct person/company, but in the scheduling box provided by Canva this option is not available.
    How can I make sure that I have the correct hyperlinks in the posts I create directly on Canva?

    Reply
    • karafidd says

      June 1, 2021 at 3:59 pm

      As of right now, I don’t believe you can tag people from Canva unfortunately.

      Reply
  5. Irene Duma says

    April 28, 2021 at 7:15 pm

    Hi, I am stumped. I just created 5 Pinterest pins for one post – they are all in one file which has multiple pages. However, now that I’ve scheduled the first pin in Canva, it doesn’t allow me to choose this file anymore. Can I not schedule the other graphics?

    If not, what is the best way to get the other four graphics into the scheduler?

    thanks

    Reply
  6. Chris Terai says

    April 28, 2021 at 1:23 pm

    Great tutorial!

    I need the ability to create Facebook posts that repeat on a schedule. Can Canva do this?

    Reply
  7. Sandheep Kumar says

    April 16, 2021 at 4:02 pm

    How do we post multiple images in the same post using content scheduler in Canva? I don’t seem to spot that option

    Reply
    • karafidd says

      April 19, 2021 at 2:28 pm

      You’ll have to do them individually for now unfortunately

      Reply
  8. Loretta says

    December 4, 2020 at 7:46 pm

    THAT was a good overview of the steps. I want to post the same image to Facebook, twitter and Linkedin. How do I do that? I seem to be running into a few problems.

    Reply
    • karafidd says

      January 7, 2021 at 12:41 am

      Thank you! You won’t be able to do them all at the same time, you’ll need to do them one at a time. What kind of problems are you running into?

      Reply

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