Pause or delete a campaign
You’ll stop a running campaign — either temporarily (pause) or permanently (delete) — and understand what happens to the posts it already produced. Short answer: the posts are yours, they stay published regardless of the campaign’s fate.
Pause vs delete
Pause keeps the campaign, its config, and its post history. No new posts run until you resume. Use this when:
- You’re taking a break (vacation, editorial freeze, site migration).
- You want to edit the campaign heavily and don’t want a post to go out mid-edit.
- You’re not sure whether to keep the campaign and want to decide later.
Delete removes the campaign from your list entirely. The posts it already published stay in WordPress — nothing you’ve committed to publication disappears. Use this when:
- You’re done with the strategy and won’t resume it.
- You want to reduce clutter on the Campaigns list.
Steps — pause
- Go to Structura → Campaigns.
- Click the campaign’s card to open its detail view.
- Click Pause in the top-right.
The status badge changes to Paused. No new posts will run until you click Resume.
Steps — resume
- Open the paused campaign.
- Click Resume.
The next scheduled slot picks up as if the pause never happened. If the pause caused scheduled slots to be missed, those slots stay missed — Structura doesn’t retroactively catch up.
Steps — delete
- Go to Structura → Campaigns and open the campaign.
- Click Delete.
- Confirm in the dialog that you want to delete.
The campaign disappears from the list. Posts stay.
What happens to posts
Published posts stay published. Whether Structura wrote them yesterday or a year ago, they’re now regular WordPress posts and behave like any other. You can edit, unpublish, or delete them in WordPress admin, but pausing or deleting the campaign does not touch them.
Drafts stay as drafts. If the campaign had generated drafts awaiting review, those drafts remain under WP Admin → Posts and you can publish or discard them as usual.
Queued runs are cancelled. A post the scheduler was about to generate (but hadn’t yet) is dropped. For an in-progress generation — the scheduler was actively writing when you paused or deleted — the current step finishes, but no new steps kick off, and the post does not publish.
Deleting by mistake
There is no undo. If you delete a campaign and realise you need it back:
- The posts it published are safe — they’re in WordPress, untouched.
- The config is gone. You’ll need to recreate the campaign from scratch or duplicate another one that’s similar. See Duplicate a campaign.
If you’re not sure whether to delete, pause instead. Paused campaigns don’t do anything, but they’re still there if you change your mind.
”Completed” campaigns
A third state you’ll see: Completed. This happens when the campaign hits its configured end condition — an end date or a total post quota. Completed campaigns appear in the list (hidden by default behind Hide completed) but produce no new posts.
You can resume a completed campaign with Edit → adjust the end condition, save, and it becomes Active again.