Pausing your queue
There are occasions when you might wish to pause your queue in order to stop posts being sent to your social media accounts. Buffer has a built-in pause feature allowing you to do just that!
When your queue is paused, all scheduled posts will also be paused and will not be sent out. Once your queue is unpaused, the posts you had scheduled will become active again and will be placed into the next available time slots (in the original order in which they were scheduled). You will also be able to reschedule any failed posts that were scheduled for a custom date and time.
📝 Good-to-Knows
- Please note, pausing is done on a per-channel basis. If you have multiple channels that you'd like to pause posting for, you will need to pause each queue individually.
- If a channel queue is paused, there isn’t any indication of this in the calendar view. We apologize for any confusion this causes.
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Pausing your queue
- Choose Channels from the left side panel.
- Select the channel where you'd like to pause the queue.
Click the gear icon next to the channel name.
⚠️ If your dashboard does not look like the image below, click here to access steps for the classic dashboard experience.
- On the Settings Page, make sure the Posting Schedule tab is selected.
- Click the Pause Queue button to complete the process.
Resuming your queue
- Select a channel on the left side of Buffer. Whenever your queue is paused, you'll see a message at the top of your queue noting that it has been paused.
- Whenever you'd like to unpause your queue, simply tap Resume Queue.
- Alternatively, you can head back to the posting schedule tab to resume your queue.
