Making mortal an writer on your blog

This article shows yous how to ready some other individual (ie some other Google account) equally an writer for your blog.

Google, Blog-Authors as well as Blogger

Setting someone upward equally an "author" inwards Blogger is one agency that yous tin displace allow other people post to your blog.

It's slowly to do: yous tell blogger to practise an invitation, which sends the individual an e-mail maxim yous would similar to hold upward an author, they click a link inwards the e-mail as well as thence sign inwards amongst a Google concern human relationship to direct maintain the invitation. And i time it is done, the individual tin displace write as well as edit their ain posts.
All yous demand to know is the person's e-mail address: it doesn't affair if it's a gmail address or not.  You tin displace ship invitations to people amongst hotmail, yahoo, as well as indeed whatever e-mail address where your guest tin displace read their email.

 However the other individual volition demand to utilisation a Google account (which doesn't necessarily include Gmail) to direct maintain the invitation: don't waste matter fourth dimension inviting people who are allergic to Google as well as non willing to sign upward for an account.


How to brand someone an writer on your blog

Send them an invitation:
  • Go to Settings > Basic > Permissions
  • Beside Blog Authors, click + Add Authors
  • Enter the e-mail address of the individual yous desire to invite
  • Click Ok


Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 few minutes later, the e-mail address that yous sent to receives an e-mail invitation, similar this, from no-reply@google.com:
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: You direct maintain been invited to contribute to AnotherTestBlog
Date: Tue, 06 December 2011 20:47:45 +0000
From:   THE NAME OF FROM YOUR BLOGGER PROFILE 
To: maryc@act.nz

The Blogger user Mary has invited yous to contribute to the blog: AnotherTestBlog.

To contribute to this blog, visit:
http://www.blogger.com/i.g?inviteID=468-GEEKY-LOOKING-CODE-973&blogID=31-GEEKY-LOOKING-CODE-83

You'll demand to sign inwards amongst a Google Account to confirm the invitation as well as foremost posting to this blog. If yous don't direct maintain a Google Account yet, we'll exhibit yous how to acquire i inwards minutes.

To larn to a greater extent than most Blogger as well as starting your ain complimentary spider web log take in http://www.blogger.com.


When the individual who gets the e-mail clicks on the link, they are taken to Blogger, as well as asked to sign in

Once they direct maintain clicked the link as well as sign in, the Google account that they log inwards amongst has "author rights" to your spider web log (just the i yous invited them to, non whatever others you've made).

The individual does non demand to direct maintain a gmail or Google concern human relationship for yous to invite them to hold upward an writer - but they volition demand to sign inwards using a Google account (new or existing) to direct maintain the invitation.



What yous volition see

Once the individual has accepted the invitation, the Google concern human relationship cry (which looks similar an e-mail address) that they utilisation to direct maintain it is shown equally an writer on the permissions tab (the i that yous went to to invite them to hold upward an author):



If they direct maintain the invitation past times signing to Google inwards amongst a dissimilar e-mail address than the i yous invited, yous volition acquire a message telling yous most this. It says
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Your invitation was accepted using a dissimilar e-mail address
Date: Tue, 06 December 2011 22:51:33 +0000
From: Blogger
To: YOUR-EMAIL-ADDRESS

Your invitation for THE-EMAIL-ADDRESS-YOU-INVITED for your individual spider web log "AnotherTestBlog" has been accepted, but using a dissimilar e-mail address. It has been accepted past times THE-ACCEPTING-EMAIL ADDRESS.

If your invitation has been accepted past times someone yous practise non know or did non retrieve to invite, delight take in the Permissions tab of your spider web log where yous tin displace pick out to revoke access.

Thanks,
 The Blogger Team




What your novel writer volition see

When your novel writer logs inwards to Google account they accepted your invitation amongst - they encounter a regular Blogger dashboard, except that they entirely direct maintain access to a express make of functions:


An writer can:

  • Create a post,
  • Edit the appointment for posts they direct maintain made
  • Turn comments of for posts they tin displace edit (provided the default setting is On)
  • Edit a post that they made
  • Add a mobile device thence they tin displace post using SMS/MMS - (this may entirely piece of employment inwards for sure countries)
  • Set themselves upward to post using e-mail (the mail2Post feature) - banker's complaint that their "secret words" address is dissimilar to yours - as well as that an writer could utilisation this characteristic to allow anyone else post from their account.
  • Remove themselves equally an author


An writer cannot:

  • Edit posts made past times other authors or administrators
  • Change the template, layout or gadgets
  • Change the blog's URL, championship or description
  • Set upward for whatever e-mail address to have comment-moderation alarm messages
  • Moderate comments (even most their ain posts), or alter the global comments settings
  • Edit whatever of the blog's Pages
  • See the blog's statistics
  • Install AdSense into the spider web log (although they tin displace put ad-units of their ain within their ain posts)
  • Give other people permission to write on the spider web log - except past times sharing their ain mail2Post "secret words" address.
  • Change the default linguistic communication as well as date/time settings for the blog
  • Alter the RSS feed settings inwards whatever way
  • Set upward Google Analytics for the blog
  • Edit the Adult-content warning setting, or the blog's Open-ID URL.


Troubleshooting

Be for sure your transfer works

If yous are accepting the invitation yourself (eg yous are transferring the spider web log to another Google account that yous control), thence brand for sure that yous either
  • [Recommended]: utilisation a dissimilar browser for each Google account, or
  • Each fourth dimension yous demand to alter Google accounts, log out of the acquaint account, clear your cache as well as re-start your browser.

Make for sure the emails arrive

We sometimes encounter questions inwards Blogger Help Forum from people who nation that they sent invitations, but the e-mail message was never received.

The most mutual solution is that the author-to-be needs to banking concern agree their spam folder - real frequently that's where the messages direct maintain gone.  If that doesn't work:
  • Try sending the individual an e-mail address from your regular e-mail concern human relationship - thence yous know if there's a  problem amongst their email.
  • Cancel the invitation (there's a link inwards the Invitation screen), hold off a few minutes as well as have again.
  • Try sending an invitation to a dissimilar e-mail address that yous control, as well as forwarding that message (without clicking the direct maintain link) to the person.yourself.

If none of this helps, post a interrogation inwards Blogger Help Forum: tell us your blog's URL, as well as precisely what options yous direct maintain tried.


More things to retrieve about

As good equally giving the individual rights, yous may also demand to piece of employment amongst them to brand for sure they sympathise how yous utilisation for sure features inwards Blogger:
  • What fourth dimension of twenty-four hours practise yous post (to acquire maximum practise goodness from your RSS non-email subscribers)
  • What policies practise yous direct maintain for responding to comments - Who is notified most comments left most their posts?  What guidelines are followed most complaints?  How practise yous bargain amongst spam as well as abuse - as well as what practise yous regard equally abuse?
  • How practise yous organise pictures, as well as other external files that your spider web log uses?
    I always upload pictures to Picasa-web-albums exterior of Blogger, LINK thence I tin displace command the pic size/resolution. If yous practise this, yous demand to brand for sure that your novel writer knows where to file their pictures.
  • Have yous got a house where yous buy the farm along policies, documetation, ideas for novel posts, etc (eg I utilisation a dissever documentation blog for this) - does your novel writer demand access to this?


What next?

Giving someone administrator access to your blog.




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