Social Media Content Calendar Template, Free to Print

Two pages, one month. This social media content calendar template prints a month grid on page 1: four weeks by seven days, one small write-in box per day, so a monthly posting schedule exists on paper before the month starts. Page 2 carries the structure behind the boxes: a series tracker with five write-in rows for recurring posts, and a reshare box where you record which older posts deserve a second run. If a week-at-a-time view fits better, the free weekly post planner does the same job one week deep.

One planned post per box, written small. Empty boxes are fine; they are the month's slack.

Fits A4 and US Letter at 100%. Grayscale prints fine.

Page 1: the month grid

Four week rows, seven day columns, one write-in line per box. The boxes are deliberately small, because a small box holds a topic and a format ("launch recap, quote card") and refuses to hold a paragraph. A month written into 28 boxes is a commitment you can see whole: the week where every box is empty is visible before it arrives, and the two days you always skip show up as a pattern instead of a surprise. Print a fresh pair of pages each month; twelve sets cover a year, and the filled pages become a record of what you actually posted.

Page 2: the series tracker and the reshare box

The series tracker holds up to five recurring posts with three columns each: the series name, the cadence, and notes. A series is any post that repeats under the same name, like a weekly recap, a Friday stat card, or a monthly ask-me-anything. The cadence column is write-in on purpose; "every Monday" and "twice a month" are both fine, and the right answer is the one you kept last month. The notes column takes whatever keeps the series honest: the format you use, the accent color, the source you pull numbers from.

The reshare box sits under the tracker with three lines for older posts worth running again. Resharing is a scheduling decision, and writing the picks down turns it into one: when the month grid has a gap, a line from this box fills it without a new idea being needed.

Four opinions about monthly calendars

Opinions from keeping sheets like this one, take or leave:

1. One series beats ten ideas. Opinion: ten one-off posts cost ten decisions every month, and a series with a cadence costs one. A month grid where three of the four weeks are already filled by series needs fewer bright ideas, and the bright ideas become the gaps instead of the backbone.
2. Write the cadence you kept, then decide whether to change it. Opinion: a cadence column filled with wishes produces a tracker full of broken rows, and a tracker full of broken rows teaches you to ignore the sheet. Start from last month's reality; raise it by one post a week at most.
3. Plan the reshare when you write the post. Opinion: the moment a post earns its keep is the moment to decide if it deserves a second run. Posts picked in the moment go in the reshare box with a date; posts picked from memory three weeks later mostly don't get picked at all.
4. Leave some boxes empty on purpose. Opinion: a grid with all 28 boxes filled on the first of the month is a plan with no room for the days that go sideways. Two or three empty boxes per week absorb launch days, sick days, and the one post that turns out worse than it looked.

What this page does not do

It plans a month; it predicts nothing. There is no claim here about what any grid does for follower counts, engagement, or whatever a platform decides to distribute, and no promised posting hour. The sheet's whole job is to make the month's posting decisions once, on two pages, so the rest of the month is execution. When the boxes are planned and the series carry the cadence, finished designs remove the production step: the pack below ships 40 post templates with placeholders already marked.

30 square PNGs (1080×1080) + 10 wide link cards (1200×675). Dark theme, three accent colors, [bracket] placeholders, edit free in Canva, Figma, or Paint. Personal + commercial license.