Manage a channel

Where: Calendar, left sidebar, the ... menu on any channel Almost everything you do to a channel after connecting it lives in one menu.

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The channel menu

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Reconnecting

Access tokens expire. When one does, the channel gets a red marker in the sidebar and its posts start failing. Clicking the marker, or Reconnect channel in the menu, re-runs authorisation and the channel resumes. A few things to know:

• Reconnecting does not count as connecting a new channel, so it does not consume a channel slot on a cloud plan.
• Posts that already failed are not retried automatically. Reschedule them.
• Reconnect as the same account. Authorising a different account creates a mismatch between the channel’s history and its new identity.

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Disable vs delete

Disable takes a channel out of service. Its posts and history stay, and you can enable it again at any time. This is the right choice when you want to stop posting to a client’s account, or, on cloud, when you need to free a slot. Delete is permanent. Postiz refuses to delete a channel that still has posts attached:

You have to delete all the posts associated with this channel before deleting it

Delete those posts first, or disable the channel instead.

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Bot picture and nickname

Bot-based platforms let a channel’s posts appear under a name, and sometimes an avatar, that are not the bot’s defaults. The menu item is labelled after what the platform supports:

• Slack: Change Bot Picture / Nickname sets both the name and the picture.
• Discord: Change Bot Nickname sets the bot’s nickname on that server. The avatar stays the Postiz bot’s own.

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Additional settings

Platforms that carry channel-level options expose them here rather than in the composer, because they apply to every post on that channel rather than to one post. Not every platform has any.