Duration: Approximately 6 minutes | Published: May 25, 2026
Want to boost your Facebook engagement without designing complex images? GoHighLevel just added a killer new feature to the Social Planner: Facebook Text Backgrounds! Now you can create those highly engaging, short text posts with colorful gradients and fun patterns directly inside your GHL dashboard. In this quick video, I’ll show you exactly how to set them up, how to cross-post to other channels like Instagram simultaneously, and give you a sneak peek at how to bulk-create these in your own voice!
Key Takeaways / Points:
Scroll-Stopping Engagement: Text-on-background posts are highly favored by the Facebook algorithm for shorter updates, and GHL now supports them natively via API.
The 130-Character Rule: To make the text background appear, your post must stay under the 130-character limit. If you go over, Facebook automatically converts it back to standard, plain text.
Facebook Pages Only: Due to Facebook’s API restrictions, automated posts can only be sent to Facebook Pages, not personal profiles or groups.
Multi-Channel Customization: You can create one master post in GHL, activate the text background for Facebook, and seamlessly swap in a traditional image asset for the Instagram version of the exact same post.
Advanced Scheduling: Once created, these background posts can be scheduled immediately, sent for approval, set as a recurring post, or added straight to your content queue.
FAQ's:
Facebook sets a strict character limit for background posts. If your text exceeds 130 characters, the background will automatically disappear, and it will revert to a standard text post.
No. Due to Facebook’s strict API limitations, third-party schedulers like GoHighLevel can only publish automated content to official Facebook Pages.
GHL handles this perfectly. You can toggle the text background on for your Facebook tab, and then switch over to the Instagram tab within the same composer to upload a standard photo or graphic.
Go to Marketing > Social Planner and click New Post. Once you select your connected Facebook page, a small multi-colored square icon will appear on the right side of the text box allowing you to choose your background.
Target Audience: GoHighLevel users, agency owners, local service businesses
Transcript Available: Yes
[0:00] Hey! Guys and Gals. Welcome to my YouTube channel. In this video I've got something really cool to show you. This is a new feature that was added inside of the AlphaBlossom CRM. Or if you're a HighLevel user. It's a new feature that will be available to you in the Social Planner. So typically when you go to Facebook you have an option for shorter posts to have different backgrounds showing. And a lot of people like those because they're very engaging. So recently HighLevel added the feature to generate those same posts inside of the social planner. So you can create your posts. And schedule them. Send them out. And they will carry over those same backgrounds as a text post.
[0:32] So instead of an actual image it's just text on a background. Very engaging. Very common. And you've got a lot of different options for the backgrounds you can use as well. So in this video I'm going to show you how to set that up inside of your HighLevel social planner. And then also I have a really cool app coming out. It's called GoBonsAI. And it allows you to create these posts in bulk. And you can create them in your voice on brand. Highly relevant. The writing sounds like you're writing. And we've added this this feature as well. So now you can create these posts inside of our GoBonsAI app. Push them to your HighLevel planner.
[1:03] So you can create a month or two months worth of posts in minutes in this style. So we're going to show you how to do that in the HighLevel planner. So let's just jump into it. Before I do if you're not already subscribed to the channel click that subscribe button down below. Make sure to like and comment on this video. And if you're new to HighLevel or if you're looking to start your own agency. I've got a 30 day HighLevel free trial down below. Plus a free bootcamp. Really an amazing offer. So make sure to click on that link down below as well. And we also have our free community down there where you can click on that and join my free community.
[1:31] To learn more about HighLevel. Where I love supporting people on this. So let's just jump into it. And I'll show you how it's done. Okay so. I'm inside of a facebook here. my facebook page. And if you go in to create a new post. You have this option here with shorter post. I believe it's up to about 130 characters. And then you can select from a bunch of different post backgrounds. And then say what's on your mind. "This is my text post. Short text only". And you see if you keep typing it's going to eventually disappear. When it gets to about. I think it's 130 characters. So you can see when it gets to be a certain length.
[2:13] It will disappear. There you go. So now it disappears. And it just goes to regular one. Now you would need to have an image or something like that. So it's really cool. A lot of times you'll see people do is they'll have something really engaging here. And then they'll put a down pointing emoji. So something like. This guy here. So it just really grabs people's attention. The down or emojis say’s “Hey! check the comments for more details”. And so let's just jump into the HighLevel social planner. I'll show you how that works. So inside of our HighLevel account. You're going to go into Marketing Into your Social Planner. Now this is assuming you already have your Facebook page connected.
[2:48] The Facebook API doesn't lets you push automated posts into groups or your personal profile. But you can have multiple pages connected here. So. We're going to come in here. We're going to click New Post. Create a post. And then I'm going to select Facebook from here. And now you can see we've got this same icon over on the right. It says “Add a Facebook text background”. So if you click on that it opens up the same options you see inside of Facebook. And you can just come in here. And earlier we had the heart. You can use that. Or you can use different gradients. All kinds of different things. So let's just use this gradient here.
[3:21] And we're going to say. "You can now post FB text messages with backgrounds directly in your GHL social planner". And then click the icon here. That's it. You see the preview here. Of course you can do follow up comments. You've got all your other options here. You can post these to different categories. Which is really cool to allow you to do automated reposting and things later. You can have tags. So you can organize things here. And then this is a Feed. Ofcourse you can do reels and stories. But this I believe just works for the feeds. Oh here you got a character limit. So it tells you how many characters you have here. So let's see what that shows.
[3:59] If we pull that out. Yeah so. We've got 130 characters. So yeah I was right on that. And you can also post to multiple Facebook accounts if you have it. If you did post it like an Instagram here. Then you could upload an image for Instagram. So if you want to customize for each channel. Now you can come to Instagram. And you can upload an image here. Let's just grab something really quickly. And let's see did that affect our Facebook. So you can see our Facebook posts still works as expected. Now our Instagram post has the image. And then the text is in the caption. So you can do multiple platforms at once. Which is really really great.
[4:37] So. I just wanted to share this. And then when you're done. You can post it. Now you can schedule the post. You can send it out to be approved. You can schedule it as a recurring post. And then select what times you want it to be recurring on. Or you can just add it to a queue. Or you can save it for later as a draft. And then later you can come in and finish it up. So. Super cool feature. again, these are super engaging posts and know the first comments down below. Again these are super engaging posts. And you know the first comments down below. And then you can add additional comments as you go.
[5:03] Maybe they will help your engagement as well. Alright! Guys and Gals. So hopefully you guys found this video helpful. I think this is a really cool feature that they've just added. And as I mentioned earlier our app will be out soon. Where will allow you to do this in bulk. You can create you know months worth of content. In just a few minutes. And it will support selecting these different image backgrounds. Push them into your HighLevel planner. So they'll be scheduled to go out on autopilot. So give it a test. Let me know in the comments down below. If you use this style of social media post on Facebook. And what do you think about the feature inside of the HighLevel social planner.
[5:35] And make sure to subscribe to the channel. Comment on this video. And don't forget we've got a 30 day free HighLevel trial down below. Along with the free bootcamp. So if you're new or thinking about starting your agency. 30 days gives you a great chances to start making some money before you even get your single bill. And that way you've got it covered. Before your first bill comes. So that's it! Guys and Gals. I will talk to you on the next one. Thank you.