The permissions settings tab in the Blogger administrative area allows you to add other authors to post articles to your blog. You can also add another administrator that can do the same things you do as an administrator of your blog. This is a great feature to your blog, and you will want to read this post to understand why that is.
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Blog Authors
Oh authors, authors, authors. We bloggers are all authors, you knew that. For most of us, when we look at this admin page, all we see is our lonely selves there. There are however a few blogs that I’m aware of that have added another author to their blogs to co-author posts to their blog.
Clicking on the ‘Add Authors’ button will allow you to enter the email addresses of those you want to Invite to be an admin on your blog. Simply enter the email address of the user you want to invite and click the ‘Invite’ button. If you have more than one, you can enter all the addresses you want, just separate them with a comma.
After you invite others to join, an email will be sent to them asking them to join your blog as an author. You will also see a list of the users you invited on this page.
If the user you are inviting does not receive the invitation, you can send another by clicking the ‘Invite again’ link that will show after you perform the invite. As well, you can remove the invite if you change your mind.
At this point, it’s up to the invitee to respond to the email and accept the invitation. If they don’t accept it, you might never know other than having the open invitation sitting on this page doing nothing but bugging you each time you look at it.
If they do accept the invitation, they are instantly able to write posts and publish them. Aside from that the only other thing newly added authors can do is remove themselves from servitude to your blog.
If you want the ‘invited one’ to be able to modify your blog in any way, your template for instance or any one of the settings found in the admin section, you will need to take a second step and make them an admin user. You will only see this option after they have accepted the invitation.
You are limited to 100 authors as well. If you have hit this mark, I’d love to hear how and why you have so many authors. Really! I’m sure most of us would love to hear about that too.
Blog Readers
This section starts off with a message stating that ‘Your blog can have up to 100 readers.’. What?!?!?! Only 100 readers can read my blog at any given time?
No…that’s not what that means.
If you have a private blog, you will only have the ability to add 100 members to your blog. If you are running a blog that is wide open for ‘Anybody’ to read, this doesn’t apply to you at all. It’s a bit misleading, and after searching for an explanation to this, I found an explanation on a site that had nothing to do with Blogger.
Side note, I feel sorry for those Blogger users that try to use the Blogger Help section…I think it’s crap personally.
Moving on, it is here in this section that you can specify if you want ‘Anybody’ to read your blog, or ‘Only people I choose’ (not me, you, the person reading this right now…yeah you). Or you can specify that ‘Only blog authors’ can read the blog. Of course, you just learned how to add another author to you blog in the prior section.
Conclusion
This admin page gives you a few options to consider. When you go on a trip and want to have a guest blogger come on board and cover for you while you’re out, this is where you’ll need to go to get all that set up.
It is also where you would go to add myself as an admin should you ever want some help with your blog. I’ve had the pleasure of helping a few bloggers out so far, and I’d like to offer the same services up to you as well. Normally, the questions I get from my readers are pretty easy for them to resolve themselves after a few emails back and forth with me. There are some problems that are quite technical, especially when it comes to the templates and making modifications to them. If the blogger isn’t comfortable doing these changes, I’m more than happy to step in and correct things (where I’m able to of course).
Things that don’t take much time are free, things that involve a bit more time to either analyze, correct or put in place will cost of course.
If you would like to modify your template, or have something corrected on your blog, please feel free to get in touch with me to discuss the issues and see if we can get those ‘bugs’ off your back.
Until then, happy blogging! Next up in the series are the templates! Subscribe now so you don’t miss anything. If you have any template questions, now is the time to get those prepared and over to me. You can bet the farm that I’ll be trying to answer everyone’s template questions!
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I think as long as you can trust the person you’re working with, it’s a great way to be able to get stuff done pretty quickly.
I’m all about control also, I’ve found that it keeps things in order that way.
I don’t bother to put controls on my blog even if I do get some trolls there. They can always be “erased”. Only been a co-blogger once.
Well you made that clear enought for everyone to understand. I myself am kinda ego-centric—that is to say whats mine is mine —is all mine—go find your own sandbox to play in. but I reserve the right to change my mind at any given time—-.