In this article, you will learn how to troubleshoot a failed post and best practices to help you prevent them from occurring.
1. Access Tokens
Loomly requires access tokens that authorize it to publish on your behalf. Access tokens are provided by the social media network when you connect your account through an industry-standard process called OAuth.
These access tokens might expire for several reasons:
Updated social account credentials
Explicit lifespans of an access token. Loomly notifies you 7 days in advance when access tokens are about to expire.
Loomly losing permissions to publish such as revoked permission settings or connected profile no longer has Admin access
Social media platform updates
This is why you might have to reconnect your social accounts from time to time.
2. Other reasons
Of course, there are instances when posts fail, which can be caused by different reasons.
We recommend troubleshooting soon after you receive a notification about a failed post to resolve the problem immediately and to prevent other scheduled posts from failing.
See also: Failed posts - common errors
3. How to reconnect your account
Go to Post View to see why your post has failed and on which platform.
Reset the connection by hitting the red 'X' and then connect your account for the failed platforms.
You can use Manage Social Accounts to disconnect, refresh, and connect Social Accounts.
You can also view any Social Account that requires attention due to failures or expiration in Manage Social Accounts from here.
Finally, you can reconnect directly in Post Builder.