Blogs: Privacy

So you have a blog. But you don't want the whole world to have access to it. You'd like for you and your hand-picked contributing authors to be the only ones who can read posts and make comments.

Here's what you do:

1. Go to Settings
2. Click on Permissions
3. Select Blog Readers > Only Blog Authors

Please note that these readers will have to log in before they can read, post, or comment on your blog. See the screen shot below. Click to enlarge:

Blogs: Contributing Authors

You are the administrator of your blog. But you'd like to have other people (students, colleagues, friends, etc.) create and post content to your blog. Adding contributing authors to your blog is the answer!

Contributing authors:

• have permission to post content
  
• have rights to edit their own posts, but not the posts of others
• cannot alter the blog template, colors, layout
• can create a unique blogger profile with their picture, email, fav movies, etc.
  

You can have up to 100 contributing authors on a blog. As the blog administrator, just click on Settings > Permissions to put in emails of those you wish to invite as contributing authors.

Here are the steps a contributing author will be asked to complete if they accept your email invitation.

Step 1: Create a Google account. If they already have a gmail account they wish to use, they can use that. If they wish to use a different email account, such as PALS or yahoo or etc., they can use that, too. Click the graphic to enlarge:

Step 2: Sign in to Blogger using that email/password:


Step 3: Click on New Post and start blogging!

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Charlie Chaplin, URL link: Table Ballet

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Here's a screenshot of where you find the URL link and the embed code. Click on the picture to enlarge: