How to Upload Carousel Posts
Multi-Channel Workspace
- Log into Planoly and navigate to the Multi-Channel Workspace
- Once there, click on the +Create button at the top and choose New Post or Bulk Create
- For a New Post, go ahead and select Instagram, or whatever other social channel you wish to post a carousel to
- Start adding your media (images or videos). You can either upload up to 10 media files at once or add each file in one by one by clicking the plus sign below the image.
- If you do not like the order in which your posts are in, you can always move them around in the correct order.
- Add in your caption, hashtags, etc. and make sure to either save as a draft or schedule it for auto-post!
Please Note: You can rearrange the images in your carousel by clicking and dragging them into place.
How to Merge Single Posts into a Carousel from the Web Dashboard
- From Bulk Create, begin by uploading your media
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Then click the check boxes for the media you want to merge
- Select Merge into Carousel
- Once merged into 1 carousel post, you can continue with adding in your caption, hashtags, etc. and make sure to either save as a draft or schedule it for auto-post.
Please Note: Once you merge content, this action cannot be undone. You can only merge grid posts into other grid posts. You cannot merge Stories posts into other Stories posts.
Carousel Post Guidelines
Carousel posts are eligible for auto-posting via our mobile app and web dashboard. Users can customize their Carousel captions for Instagram and Facebook, as well as add a first comment to their Instagram Carousel post. Below are some of Instagram's limitations or you can read more about Instagram Guidelines and Limitations.
- Up to 10 media items can be added to a carousel post including single images and videos
- Rearranging posts within a carousel counts as an upload
- Size Limit: 8MB Maximum
- Image Types: BMP, JPEG, PNG
- Ratio Specs: Within a 4:5 to 1.91:1 aspect ratio range for images and 4:5 to 16:9 for videos
- All images are required to be the same size as the first image on the carousel