How to Add Multiple Authors to Blogger (and What Each Role Can Do)

Updated November 2026 by Marius: rewritten after testing on a Blogger test blog, with a second Google account invited as the author. Originally published by Hardeep Asrani in 2014.

Blogger lets several people write for one blog. You invite them by email from Settings, they accept with a Google Account, and their posts are credited to them. A blog can have up to 100 members in total, counting authors, admins and readers (Blogger Help).

There are only two roles for people who write, Author and Admin, and the difference matters more than it looks: an Author can publish without your approval, and an Admin can remove you. Details below.

How to add an author to Blogger

1. In Blogger, pick the blog and click Settings in the left menu.
2. Scroll down to Permissions and click Invite more authors.
3. Enter the email address (or several) and click Send. There is no role to choose: everyone you invite joins as an Author.
4. The person gets an email titled “You have been invited to contribute to your blog name” with an Accept invitation button. They have to sign in with a Google Account to accept. Until they do, their address is listed under Pending author invites.

Once they accept, they appear under Blog admins and authors, and the blog shows up in their own Blogger dashboard.

What an Author can and can’t do

I accepted the invite with the second account and tried everything from its side:

• Authors publish straight to the blog. The editor has the same Publish button you have, and the post went live the moment I confirmed. Blogger has no “submit for review” step, so invite only people you would let publish unchecked.
• They can only edit their own posts. The post list shows everyone’s posts, but opening one of mine said “Permission denied. You can only edit the post if you are a blog admin or the post author.”
• Their menu has only Posts, Settings and Reading List. No Stats, Comments, Earnings, Pages, Layout or Theme. Typing the Theme, Layout, Comments or Pages addresses directly just sent the account back to Posts, and Stats showed “Page Not Found”, so an Author can’t reach the Comments page to moderate, create pages or touch the design.
• Their Settings page is short: Remove yourself from this blog, the blog’s videos and media, Post using email, Use Blogger draft and their own profile.

Make someone an Admin (or switch them back)

Go to Settings > Permissions > Blog admins and authors, change the menu next to the person from Author to Admin, and click Save. The change takes effect at once: the test account got Stats, Comments, Earnings, Pages, Layout and Theme in its menu and could edit my posts. Switching it back to Author took them away again.

Be careful who you make Admin. Blogger has no separate owner role: the account that created the blog is just one admin among others. With the test account promoted, its copy of this dialog had my row fully editable, role menu and remove button included. Another admin can demote you to Author or remove you from your own blog, and once you’re an Author you can’t undo it yourself. Once there is a second admin, your own row in this dialog becomes editable too. That is how, while testing, I switched my own account to Author by mistake and lost Theme, Layout and the rest. Only the other admin could switch me back.

Show who wrote each post

With several authors you will want a byline, and Contempo, the theme I tested, hides it by default. In Layout, click the pencil on the Blog Posts gadget, tick Show author and click Save. Each post page then shows “By” and the author’s name. The name comes from the author’s Blogger profile (the test account showed up as “MG”, its profile name), so ask your authors to set it.

Show author profile, in the same gadget, adds the author’s bio to post pages, but only for authors who have filled in About me in their Blogger profile. My test author hadn’t, and nothing appeared. The Profile gadget in the sidebar changes on its own: once the blog has a second member, it turns from a single “About Me” box into a Contributors list with everyone’s name.

Remove an author

Go to Settings > Permissions > Blog admins and authors, click the X next to the person, then Save. There is no confirmation: the row disappears when you click the X, and nothing changes until you click Save, so click Cancel if you hit the wrong X.

What happened when I removed the test author:

• The account lost access immediately. Opening the blog’s dashboard sent it to Reading List.
• Its post stayed published, and the post page and my post list still credited it to “MG”. The blog’s feed, though, now lists the author as “Unknown”.
• As an admin I could still edit and delete that post.

Authors can also leave on their own from Settings > Remove yourself from this blog.