Guides

How PostYard works

One page per screen — what it’s for, where to find it, and what it can and can’t do. The same guide content shows up inside the product itself, so nothing here can drift from what you actually see.

What PostYard is, in one page

PostYard replaces this WordPress install's entire front-end with an approval queue for AI-assisted social and blog content.

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Creating a post type

A post type is one destination — its name, ID, delivery route, schedule, look and AI brief all live in one editor.

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Where posts go: delivery modes

A post type has exactly one delivery mode — Buffer, SocialPilot, a remote WordPress site, or member email — chosen once on the Where it posts tab.

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Posting schedule & slots

A post type posts on a weekly pattern of days and times; PostYard allocates each new post the next free slot automatically.

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Templates and the graphic

Every post type has one or more graphic templates — drag-and-drop designs PostYard fills in with the post's headline, image and logo.

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The approval queue

Every post — however it arrived — sits Pending until a human approves or rejects it; approving hands it to the delivery route at its scheduled slot.

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AI generation and the brief

PostYard can write a post type's posts itself, on a weekly schedule or on demand — the AI brief is what tells it what to write about.

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Rejections: what a rewrite can and can't do

Rejecting a post with a note triggers an automatic rewrite — but a rewrite can only change the words, never the graphic's layout, styling or template choice.

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The asset library

A shared, folder-organised library of icons and images every post type can draw on — uploaded raster images are compressed automatically.

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Slack

The Slack app can send approval notifications with Approve/Reject buttons, accept an image dropped in a channel as a new post, and answer questions tagged @postyard.

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Email intake

A dedicated inbox is polled hourly; a message with an attached graphic becomes a queued post with an AI-drafted caption.

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Page, voice and event watchers

A watcher polls a URL, an RSS feed, or an events feed and proposes a post whenever something worth writing about changes.

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Multi-week campaigns

A campaign is a named grouping of ordinary posts, with a visual weekly timeline — not a separate posting pipeline.

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The calendar

A weekly day×hour grid of every post type's pending, approved and sent posts, with drag-and-drop rescheduling.

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Team & roles

Three roles — Admin, Post type Manager and Team Member — decide who can approve, manage settings, or only see the post types they're assigned.

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Billing & credits

AI generation is metered against a credit balance topped up monthly by your plan or bought in bundles — manage it from the billing portal.

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