What is this?
Facebook Publishing is where you compose, publish, or schedule posts to your connected Facebook Page, and manage saved drafts and upcoming scheduled posts.
[SCREENSHOT: facebook-publishing-overview — the Facebook Publishing page with the Compose tab open, showing the composer and the Publishing State panel]
What can I do here?
- Compose a Text post, Photo post, or Video post via the Post Type selector (video posts can be drafted but cannot be published yet)
- Upload a photo (JPEG, PNG, WEBP) or video (MP4, MOV) file for the post
- Add an optional Link on text posts
- Write the post’s Message / Caption
- Choose When to publish: Publish now or Schedule for later, picking a date and time between 10 minutes and 75 days from now
- Publish the post immediately, or schedule it, via the Publish / Schedule button
- Save the current composition as a draft with Save Draft, without publishing it
- Reopen a saved draft for editing (pencil icon) or delete it (trash icon) from the Saved Drafts tab
- View Upcoming Scheduled posts pulled live from the connected Facebook Page, with their scheduled time and a message preview
- Refresh the scheduled posts list
- See a live Publishing State panel that tracks the current step (Ready, Publishing…, Scheduling…, Published successfully, Scheduled successfully, or Publishing failed) and shows the resulting post ID once published or scheduled
- See stat tiles for the number of Upcoming Scheduled posts, Saved Drafts, and the name of the Connected Page
How to use it
Go to Facebook → Publishing and choose a tab.
Compose
Upcoming Scheduled
Saved Drafts
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Optionally enter a Draft Title.
[SCREENSHOT: facebook-publishing-compose — the Compose tab showing Draft Title, Post Type, and Message/Caption fields]
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Choose a Post Type: Text post, Photo post, or Video post. Video posts can only be saved as a draft — publishing is not available yet.
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For Photo or Video posts, click the upload area (or the Upload button) to choose a file.
[SCREENSHOT: facebook-publishing-media-upload — the photo/video upload drop area with an uploaded file shown]
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For Text posts, optionally add a Link.
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Write the Message / Caption.
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Under When to publish, choose Publish now or Schedule for later. If scheduling, set a Schedule date & time — it must be at least 10 minutes ahead and within 75 days.
[SCREENSHOT: facebook-publishing-schedule-picker — the When to publish selector with the schedule date/time field open]
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Click Publish (or Schedule) to send the post to Facebook. The Publishing State panel shows progress and, once done, the resulting post ID.
[SCREENSHOT: facebook-publishing-state-panel — the Publishing State panel showing a successful publish with its post ID]
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To finish later, click Save Draft at any point. Drafts are kept per connected channel.
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See the posts Meta will publish in the future, pulled live from your Page with their scheduled time and a message preview.
[SCREENSHOT: facebook-publishing-scheduled — the Upcoming Scheduled tab listing scheduled posts with their publish time]
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Click Refresh to pull the latest list from Facebook.
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See all drafts for this channel.
[SCREENSHOT: facebook-publishing-drafts — the Saved Drafts tab listing draft posts with their type and last-updated time]
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Click the pencil icon on a draft to load it back into the composer, or the trash icon to delete it.
pages_manage_posts permission; if scheduling requests fail, reconnect the Facebook Page in Settings. Publishing on this page requires the facebook:edit permission — without it, the page shows an access-denied message instead of the composer.
Last modified on September 20, 2026
