Social Media With Canva Pro

Your presence on social media makes a difference! With 73% of the US population regularly using social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and more, these time-saving tips will help teach you how to use Canva Pro’s graphics in your social media posts and keep your messaging top-of-mind. 

There are numerous tutorials online to aid in learning how to easily navigate Canva Pro. We found some of the best ones and organized them so you can hit the ground running. Follow these steps to start using Canva Pro to design and post on your social media.

How to Use Canva Pro to Design and Post on Your Social Media

• Search for a social media template & edit your graphics

Inside Canva Pro, you can find thousands of templates available specifically for social media. Canva makes it easy to customize graphics for different platforms with searchable templates designed to meet each platform’s specific requirements. For example, if you want to create an Instagram story graphic for your organization, Canva Pro has templates already sized to perfectly fit the dimensions of an Instagram story. 

o  Video tutorial: Design for Social Media | Canva Nonprofits

• Link to your social media accounts

With Canva Pro, you can connect your social media accounts for a simplified, seamless posting experience. Currently, Canva Pro supports Facebook, Instagram, X (Twitter), LinkedIn, Pinterest, Slack, and Tumblr. Once connected, you can post to your chosen social media accounts right from the Canva Pro app.

o  Video tutorial: How to Connect Your Social Media to Canva

• Share your graphic to your social media account directly from Canva Pro 

Ready to share your creation? Canva Pro allows you to post directly to your social media accounts as soon as you’re finished with your design. This eliminates the extra steps of downloading and uploading graphics and logging into/navigating a different app. It’s a streamlined way to keep your content fresh and consistent without jumping between platforms! 

o  Video Tutorial: How to post a design from the Canva Editor

o  Video Tutorial: How to schedule a social post from the Canva Editor

o  Written Tutorial: Share on Social Media and Messaging Apps 

Go Beyond the Basics of Canva Pro for Social Media

If you want to dive deeper into the Canva Pro learning experience, Canva provides users with free, more in-depth learning options inside their “Canva Design School.” We suggest the following short video courses for further learning:

• Managing your Social Media
• Designing for Social Media
• How to create your first Facebook post
• Social Media Mastery

You Can Use WeCreate, too! 

LPi offers ready-to-use graphics for every holiday and occasion inside WeCreate, our digital content library designed for nonprofits. Bonus — newsletter customers already have access to WeCreate and all the images and content within! Need help accessing it? Contact Customer Support to give you a hand.

Updated 11-07-2025