# Manage channels

> Pick your primary channel, choose the defaults for new posts, reconnect, and disconnect.

Everything here lives in **Settings → Channels**. Click a channel to open its own settings page.

## Primary channel

The primary channel leads the account row in the composer. When a post goes to several channels, the others copy
the primary's text and media until you [unsync](https://orbitwrite.com/docs/guides/composer/cross-posting) them.

To change it, open the channel's **⋯** menu and choose **Make primary**.

## Default channels for new posts

Tick the channels you want selected every time someone opens the composer. You can still add or remove channels
on any post. Owners, admins and managers can change the defaults.

## A channel's own settings

Each channel's page has:

- **Posting goal**: how many times a week you want to post from it.
- **Timezone**: the zone its schedule times are shown and set in.
- **Schedule**: the times of the week it publishes at. See [Posting schedule](https://orbitwrite.com/docs/guides/channels/posting-schedule).
- **Link tracking**: whether its links get your tracking parameters, its own, or none. See
  [Links](https://orbitwrite.com/docs/guides/composer/links).

## Reconnect a channel

A channel shows **Reconnect needed** when the network stops accepting our access: you changed your password, revoked
the app, the network expired the sign-in, or a permission was added that the old sign-in doesn't have. You're told
by email and in the app's notifications. Until you reconnect, posts due on that channel can't publish: they come
back to **Draft** with a note asking you to reconnect, so you can reschedule them afterwards.

Choose **Reconnect** from its **⋯** menu and sign in again. It's the same channel afterwards, with its posts,
schedule and settings intact. See [Reconnecting channels](https://orbitwrite.com/docs/guides/troubleshooting/reconnecting).

## Paused channels

If a workspace has more channels than its plan covers (after a downgrade, for example), the extra ones are
**paused**, not removed. A paused channel stays connected, but nothing publishes to it: its scheduled posts are held
and go out once the channel is active again. A post held for more than a week past its time is marked failed.

Owners, admins and managers choose which channels the plan covers: choose **Make active** on the one you want to use. Or move to a plan
that covers them all.

## Disconnect a channel

Choose **Disconnect** from the channel's **⋯** menu. Orbitwrite stops posting to it, and its posts and drafts stay,
so you can reconnect later and pick up where you left off.

Tick **Also delete this channel's posts and drafts** to remove the channel from the workspace entirely. This can't be
undone, and connecting it again later starts fresh.

> **Warning:** Disconnecting doesn't delete anything you already published. Those posts stay live on the network.