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How to schedule LinkedIn posts

LinkedIn schedules posts itself, for nothing, and for a lot of people that is the whole answer. Here are those steps, from LinkedIn's own help pages, first. Then the way that also covers your other networks, then the way your own agent does it.

1. The LinkedIn way, with no tool at all

The clock icon inside LinkedIn's own Create a post box, on the web.

  1. 1

    Click Start a post at the top of your LinkedIn homepage.

  2. 2

    Type the post in the What do you want to talk about? field.

  3. 3

    Click the clock icon to schedule it, pick a date and time, then click Next.

  4. 4

    Click Schedule. LinkedIn accepts a time from 10 minutes to 3 months ahead.

On the LinkedIn app

  1. Tap Post in the navigation bar, then type the post in the What do you want to talk about? field.
  2. Tap the clock icon in the upper right. In the Schedule pop-up, pick a date and time; you can type an exact time instead of the 30-minute steps.
  3. Tap Next. The scheduled date and time shows above the post.
  4. Tap Schedule in the upper right.

What LinkedIn will not schedule

  • A personal profile cannot schedule events, jobs or service posts.
  • A Page cannot schedule events, multiple photos, reshares, polls, jobs or service posts, and its earliest slot is one hour out rather than ten minutes.

Viewing, editing and deleting a scheduled post

  • View: Start a post (or Post on the phone), the clock icon, then View all scheduled posts.
  • Edit or reschedule: open the scheduled post's More menu and choose Modify schedule or Edit post.
  • Delete: the Delete icon beside the post, then confirm in the Delete scheduled post? pop-up.
LinkedIn's own scheduler is enough when

You post to one LinkedIn profile, a few times a week, and you are at a desk when you write.

  • One account at a time. A personal profile and a Page are two different scheduling screens.
  • No queue and no slots: every post needs a date and time typed by hand.
  • No first comment. LinkedIn schedules the post, not the comment you wanted under it.

Read from LinkedIn Help: Schedule posts on and LinkedIn Help: Scheduled posts for LinkedIn Pages on . Platforms move menus; the source is the place to check.

2. The free way, when one network is not the whole job

The native scheduler stops being enough the moment a second network is involved, or the post needs a first comment, or you want to see the week rather than one post. Our free plan is 10 posts a day across every network you connect, with no card.

  1. Connect LinkedIn once, under Accounts, through LinkedIn's own sign-in. No developer app, no key.
  2. Open Manual, pick the LinkedIn account and write. Pick more accounts, and edit any preview where that account should say it differently.
  3. Add to queue takes the next free slot for that account, Schedule pins an exact minute, Post now sends it. Calendar shows the week.

Scheduling and publishing never spend credits. The $5 refilled each month is for the agents that write, design and render, which is the difference between this and a queue.

The per-network rules, and what happens when a draft breaks one, are on the free LinkedIn scheduler page.

3. From an agent, on the same free plan

Add our LinkedIn MCP server to Claude or ChatGPT and ask in plain words, or call the REST API or the CLI with a scoped key. Same queue, same cap, same approval.

REST
curl -X POST https://shapelessai.com/api/posts \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $SHAPELESS_API_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"connectionId":"CONNECTION_ID","postText":"We rebuilt onboarding this week. Here is what broke first, and what we changed.","queue":true,"firstComment":"The full write-up, if you want the detail."}'
MCP tool call
{ "name": "posts_create", "arguments": { "connectionId": "CONNECTION_ID", "text": "We rebuilt onboarding this week. Here is what broke first, and what we changed.", "queue": true, "firstComment": "The full write-up, if you want the detail." } }
CLI
shapeless posts create --to CONNECTION_ID --text "We rebuilt onboarding this week. Here is what broke first, and what we changed." --queue --first-comment "The full write-up, if you want the detail."

Swap "queue": true for "scheduledAt": "2026-09-20T09:00:00Z" to pin an exact minute; leave both out and it publishes now.

Questions

Can you schedule LinkedIn posts without a third-party tool?
Yes. The clock icon inside LinkedIn's own Create a post box, on the web. It starts with: Click Start a post at the top of your LinkedIn homepage. That is enough when you post to one LinkedIn profile, a few times a week, and you are at a desk when you write. Steps read from LinkedIn Help: Schedule posts on 2026-09-14.
Can an AI agent schedule my LinkedIn posts?
Yes, on the free plan. Add https://shapelessai.com/mcp to Claude, ChatGPT or any MCP host and the posts_create tool schedules through your connected LinkedIn account, or call POST /api/posts with a scoped key, or run the CLI. Publishing tools are flagged so the host asks you before anything goes out.
Can I schedule a first comment on LinkedIn?
Yes. Pass firstComment on the post and we publish it as a comment on the post once it is live, up to 1,250 characters. Platforms that have no such thing answer 422 rather than silently dropping it.
Do scheduled LinkedIn posts get less reach?
LinkedIn publishes a scheduled post through its own API, the same path its clock icon uses, so the post arrives the way a typed one does. We have no reach data of our own to show you, so we will not claim a number in either direction.
What does the free plan cost me later?
Nothing for the rail. Scheduling and publishing never spend credits. The $5 refilled each month is for the agents that research, write, design and render - a paid plan refills more of it and lifts the daily cap.

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