Google, Blog-Authors together with Blogger
It's slow to do: yous tell blogger to create an invitation, which sends the someone an e-mail maxim yous would similar to endure an author, they click a link inward the e-mail together with and hence sign inward alongside a Google concern human relationship to cause got the invitation. And i time it is done, the someone tin ship away write together with edit their ain posts.
However the other someone volition demand to utilisation a Google account (which doesn't necessarily include Gmail) to cause got the invitation: don't waste materials fourth dimension inviting people who are allergic to Google together with non willing to sign upwardly 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 someone 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 cause got 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 inward alongside a Google Account to confirm the invitation together with kickoff posting to this blog. If yous don't cause got a Google Account yet, we'll demonstrate yous how to acquire i inward minutes.
To acquire to a greater extent than close Blogger together with starting your ain complimentary spider web log catch http://www.blogger.com.
When the someone who gets the e-mail clicks on the link, they are taken to Blogger, together with asked to sign in
Once they cause got clicked the link together with sign in, the Google account that they log inward alongside has "author rights" to your spider web log (just the i yous invited them to, non whatever others you've made).
The someone does non demand to cause got a gmail or Google concern human relationship for yous to invite them to endure an writer - but they volition demand to sign inward using a Google account (new or existing) to cause got the invitation.
What yous volition see
Once the someone has accepted the invitation, the Google concern human relationship yell (which looks similar an e-mail address) that they utilisation to cause got it is shown equally an writer on the permissions tab (the i that yous went to to invite them to endure an author):
If they cause got the invitation yesteryear signing to Google inward alongside a dissimilar e-mail address than the i yous invited, yous volition acquire a message telling yous close 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 yesteryear THE-ACCEPTING-EMAIL ADDRESS.
If your invitation has been accepted yesteryear someone yous create non know or did non intend to invite, delight catch the Permissions tab of your spider web log where yous tin ship away pick out to revoke access.
Thanks,
The Blogger Team
What your novel writer volition see
When your novel writer logs inward to Google account they accepted your invitation alongside - they encounter a regular Blogger dashboard, except that they exclusively cause got access to a express make of functions:
An writer can:
- Create a post,
- Edit the appointment for posts they cause got made
- Turn comments of for posts they tin ship away edit (provided the default setting is On)
- Edit a post that they made
- Add a mobile device hence they tin ship away post using SMS/MMS - (this may exclusively piece of employment inward sure enough countries)
- Set themselves upwardly to post using e-mail (the mail2Post feature) - banknote that their "secret words" address is dissimilar to yours - together with that an writer could utilisation this characteristic to permit anyone else post from their account.
- Remove themselves equally an author
An writer cannot:
- Edit posts made yesteryear other authors or administrators
- Change the template, layout or gadgets
- Change the blog's URL, championship or description
- Set upwardly for whatever e-mail address to have comment-moderation warning messages
- Moderate comments (even close 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 ship away put ad-units of their ain within their ain posts)
- Give other people permission to write on the spider web log - except yesteryear sharing their ain mail2Post "secret words" address.
- Change the default linguistic communication together with date/time settings for the blog
- Alter the RSS feed settings inward whatever way
- Set upwardly Google Analytics for the blog
- Edit the Adult-content warning setting, or the blog's Open-ID URL.
Troubleshooting
Be sure enough 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), together with hence brand sure enough 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 introduce account, clear your cache together with re-start your browser.
Make sure enough the emails arrive
We sometimes encounter questions inward Blogger Help Forum from people who tell that they sent invitations, but the e-mail message was never received.The most mutual solution is that the author-to-be needs to cheque their spam folder - really oftentimes that's where the messages cause got gone. If that doesn't work:
- Try sending the someone an e-mail address from your regular e-mail concern human relationship - hence yous know if there's a problem alongside their email.
- Cancel the invitation (there's a link inward the Invitation screen), hold off a few minutes together with endeavor again.
- Try sending an invitation to a dissimilar e-mail address that yous control, together with forwarding that message (without clicking the cause got link) to the person.yourself.
If none of this helps, post a inquiry inward Blogger Help Forum: tell us your blog's URL, together with just what options yous cause got tried.
More things to yell back about
As good equally giving the someone rights, yous may also demand to piece of employment alongside them to brand sure enough they empathise how yous utilisation sure enough features inward Blogger:- What's your editing together with quality-assurance approach - how yous do brand sure enough you've got posts correct earlier yous divulge them? Do yous allow adult content? What close content that mightiness non adapt advertising that your spider web log is showing.
- Do yous utilisation labels? How create yous create upwardly one's heed what labels to apply? This is specially of import if you pose your posts into pages.
- What fourth dimension of twenty-four hours create yous post (to acquire maximum create goodness from your RSS non-email subscribers)
- How are posts promoted on social media - create they demand access to your blog's Twitter concern human relationship or Facebook page too?
- What policies create yous cause got for responding to comments - Who is notified close comments left close their posts? What guidelines are followed close complaints? How create yous bargain alongside spam together with abuse - together with what create yous regard equally abuse?
- How create yous organise pictures, together with other external files that your spider web log uses?
I always upload pictures to Picasa-web-albums exterior of Blogger, LINK hence I tin ship away command the painting demonstrate size/resolution. If yous create this, yous demand to brand sure enough that your novel writer knows where to file their pictures.
- Have yous got a house where yous continue 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.Related Articles
Understanding Google accountsPutting AdSense ads into your posts
How to pose posts into your blog's pages
Why RSS / Subscribe to Posts matters for your blog
Your spider web log together with the so-called-social networks: Facebook, Twitter, eg al
Putting pictures onto your blog
Advertising together with your blog, some things to consider
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