Any time you transfer a blog between administrator accounts, you always have at least one administrator.
You will have to have both the source and target owning accounts active, for some time. Don't start this project, if you've lost the account name, or forgotten the password, on one of the accounts. Plan this process with some care.
Note that you may, personally, perform some or all of these steps.
At your discretion, some steps may be performed by another person while you observe - or distant from you. If two people are involved here, be sure that both you and the other person have read this procedure and understand all steps.
If you're doing this in preparation to switching your Blogger, GMail, or other email account, do not discontinue the current account until you have executed, and tested, step 2, by successfully performing step 3.
If the current account has any other Google features, such as AdSense, GMail. or Picasa, do not delete the current account. If you uploaded any pictures to any of the blogs, using post editor, your pictures are stored in Picasa - and they will not be transferred. If any pictures are hosted by the current account, do not ever delete the account.
Be careful, and use the right account for each of the transfer steps.
Google authenticates using one account, for multiple tasks (Blogger, Google Apps, Google Mail, and others), using cookies. There are 3 ways to ensure that the correct Blogger account is used, during the transfer procedure.
Be aware of ownership requirements - and make sure the new owner is aware.
If either the current, or the new, Blogger account is based upon a non GMail email address, be aware of special issues related to non GMail based accounts. And be aware of the relationships in general, between Blogger accounts, email addresses, and Google accounts.
And now with the blog having a new owner, make sure that the new owner knows to retain access to the account - keep both the account name / password, and the email address, current, remembered, and secure.
For another view of the control transfer process, see Blogger Help: How do I move a blog between accounts?.
You will have to have both the source and target owning accounts active, for some time. Don't start this project, if you've lost the account name, or forgotten the password, on one of the accounts. Plan this process with some care.
Note that you may, personally, perform some or all of these steps.
At your discretion, some steps may be performed by another person while you observe - or distant from you. If two people are involved here, be sure that both you and the other person have read this procedure and understand all steps.
- If the new owner isn't already a blog member
- Login to Blogger, using an account that currently has administrative access to the blog.
- Using the Permissions wizard at Settings - Basic, add a new blog member, using a suitable email address used by the person being given access.
- Login to Google, under the email account targeted in step 2.
- Open the email received, and accept membership, using any valid Google account. Or setup a new Google account, if necessary. This gives you a blog with team membership.
- Note that the email account used initially, and the Google account may, or may not, be the same.
- Login to Blogger, using an account that currently has administrative access to the blog. Using the Permissions wizard at Settings - Basic, make the new member an administrator, by selecting "Admin" in place of "Author". Be careful, and only add administrators who you can trust, and who you reasonably expect to continue to be available. This gives you a blog with team ownership.
- If you're transferring ownership, not adding an administrator
- Login to Blogger, using the account that was just given administrative access.
- Using the Permissions wizard at Settings - Basic, remove the old account. Using the newly added account, to remove the old account, assures you that the account just added now has administrative authority.
If you're doing this in preparation to switching your Blogger, GMail, or other email account, do not discontinue the current account until you have executed, and tested, step 2, by successfully performing step 3.
If the current account has any other Google features, such as AdSense, GMail. or Picasa, do not delete the current account. If you uploaded any pictures to any of the blogs, using post editor, your pictures are stored in Picasa - and they will not be transferred. If any pictures are hosted by the current account, do not ever delete the account.
Be careful, and use the right account for each of the transfer steps.
Google authenticates using one account, for multiple tasks (Blogger, Google Apps, Google Mail, and others), using cookies. There are 3 ways to ensure that the correct Blogger account is used, during the transfer procedure.
- Use 2 different browsers (on one computer, or on two computers) - one browser for using the current Blogger account, the second for setting up, then using, the new Blogger account.
- Clear cache, cookies, and authenticated sessions, then restart the browser, after each of the first 3 steps.
- Carefully use the "Use different account" link, when logging in before each of the last 3 steps.
Be aware of ownership requirements - and make sure the new owner is aware.
If either the current, or the new, Blogger account is based upon a non GMail email address, be aware of special issues related to non GMail based accounts. And be aware of the relationships in general, between Blogger accounts, email addresses, and Google accounts.
And now with the blog having a new owner, make sure that the new owner knows to retain access to the account - keep both the account name / password, and the email address, current, remembered, and secure.
For another view of the control transfer process, see Blogger Help: How do I move a blog between accounts?.
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Thanks again!!!
You change any profile from your dashboard, when you're logged in under the account that uses that profile. You can change anything but the account name (ie the email address that the account is setup under originally).
Did you refresh cache after logging in to the new account? Are you certain that this is the same account as you logged in to, when accepting membership from the invitation email?
Your expression "the whole permission thing" is a bit vague. Are you posting in Google Blogger Help anywhere, so we can discuss this in detail?
Do you have control of the blog, from the new account? Login to the new account. If it has administrative access, you'll be able to remove the old account, or change it to Guest status. But only change the old account, while logged in to the new account.
Is the blog and the posts there in the new account right now? If and only if that's true, you can then remove the old account, while logged in to the new account.
Just make sure that you're happy with the new account. Test carefully. When you're sure that the new account has what you need, remove the old account.
Can you please help?
I'll try to look for your thread in Google Blogger Help. That's where we solve problems best.
thank you very much!
any hints?
kelli
An invitation from the Blogger Permissions wizard to actual GMail (you do refer to "gmail.com"?) should be instantaneous, and shouldn't be filtered. But make sure - check in the Spam folder. Then, resend the invitation.
It was immensely helpful!!
because i don't see anyway to switch the author associated with the blog posts to a new author
Yes, deleting author won't delete their posts or their name as autors. they just don't exist anymore as active authors, but their names will remain as authors of prev posts
Thanks
If you're trying to manage the blog from the domain account, then transferring the blog to that account is what you need to do.
Be sure to clear cache and cookies, especially if you're doing all of the work from one computer.
Cheers,
j.
In normal cases, clearing cache and cookies should not at all be necessary. When people get to needing this article, though, they are frequently so much in need of additional assistance, that it's best to err on the side of caution.
I've seen enough posts about people who have ended up with redundant accounts, or duplicate blogs, to not be cautious here.
If you can do this with 2 different computers, you can maybe do without clearing cache and cookies. If you have to use both the sending and the receiving account from the same computer, you better prepare to clear cache and cookies at least once.
Unfortunately, ownership transfers just allow you to use a different account in the future. They do nothing about posts made in the past, under the previous account / profile.
Thank you for posting this.
Thanx!
:-D
Like the problem with Following and blogs being renamed, Following relationships aren't carried across account changes. You open a new account, you have to start over with Following. Sorry.
why is it such a big hassle to just change an email addy? my original one has my real name in it. but i want to use my blogger nickname, while still being "me" in my profile. seems like a simple enough thing...but apparently it isn't. {sigh}
The email address is the name of the account. In IT terminology, it's called an "index". Data structures that use indexes are generally not designed to allow you to change an index, you have to create a new index.
Why do you worry about profile view count? Your visitors read your blogs, to enjoy your blogs. Your profile only tells what other blogs you have, and it's accessed from links from your blogs. And the profile view counter isn't consistently maintained.
If you like numbers, put one or two visitor meters on your blog(s).
In other words, I can't add email #2 as an admin, because it already is. Yet, I am not getting the same privelidges with email #2 as I am with email #1.
I'm sorry if you have already answered this question...
Here's where you think outside the box.
one question: is it safe for me to take my previous account off of admin, so long as I don't delete the original email/account associated with a blog?
I had a gmail address before and got a new gmail address (a more professional one with my name rather than song lyrics) and just want my blog on that account...
As long as you are absolutely certain that your new account has administrative authority, it's safe to remove the previous account. Just do the deletion from the new account - never use an account to remove itself.
I followed your advice to a T and it all worked perfectly (thank you for that!). But now I just want to be certain of one thing. If I were to log in using my NEW email and DELETE my old email (in a few days this email will no longer be active at all) will my photos from all my posts authored by this "old" email STILL be on my blog? I read somewhere that the photos uploaded from your "old" email account will no longer be able to be seen.
My blog is of my 2 kids and you can imagine how many photos I have on there! I don't even want to think about what I'd do if they were all deleted.
Thanks for the help!!
Thank you for asking this question, before doing something irreversible.
If your pictures were uploaded to the Google servers most recently, using the post editor Picture Upload button, they are probably hosted in Picasa.
If you transfer control of your blog, which displays pictures hosted in Picasa, and you delete the old Blogger / Google account after transferring control of the blog, your blog will reference non existent content.
In short, and as you are guessing, deleting the old Blogger / Google account would be a very bad idea.
Having said that, I will point out that you can delete the email account itself - if it's not a GMail address - without causing this problem. However, deleting the GMail account associated with a Picasa account is not a good idea, as noted.
As a second "however", if you intend to abandon or delete the non GMail email account, please first make sure that you know the Blogger account name and password - and write them down, and save in a sealed envelope or something - to be used if at sometime in the future, you need to re enable the Blogger account for some reason. If you don't know both the account name and password, recover access to the Blogger account while the non GMail email account still exists!
Thanks for your help!
I ended up logging in and out of the accounts. From the original go to permissions and add your other email address as an administrator. Then I personally, logged out of that one and into the new address. From that address I deleted the other administrator. ....I complicated it way more than this but I think it's that simple. I had to redo my profile under the new administrator but the blog is still there in tact. Perfect.
Thanks again.
email address and it's no where tied to my blog? Did I miss something
This is the procedure for changing the email address, only as it relates to ownership of a blog. This does not affect either comment moderation / notification, or Mail-to-Blogger, email addresses. The various values in the different Settings menus are totally separate from blog ownership.
http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2012/05/changing-blog-ownership-only-changes.html
Is there a way to have only ONE profile show up on my blog sidebar...because now it got rid of my profile description and just lists the two "authors" with a link to the profiles.
It's very frustrating to have to sign into two different accounts just to maintain my daily email and also comment on blogs with the same profile I've been using for years...not challenging for brides who get married and change their name!
What you need is a custom "About Me" gadget - which is a 15 minute job.
I have a similar question as Tim above. I created a new gmail address (i.e new@gmail.com). Then I created a blog (mydomain.blogspot.com). Then I signed-up for new custom domain (mydomain.com). Then I created a new email address in google apps on the new domain (new@mydomain.com). Then I transferred blog ownership as detailed in this post from new@gmail.com to new@mydomain.com. Then I went into publishing in the new account and tried to point to the newly purchased domain (from mydomain.blogspot.com to mydomain.com). It gives me this error: "Another blog or Google Site is already using this address." I had not made the switch in the old account to point to the new domain. How can I get my domain.blogspot.com to point to my domain.com and be owned by new@mydomain.com?
I hope this all makes sense.
Thank you!