At the end of the last week we came across an issue with Admins adding authors to existing Blogger accounts.

The problem is that when an invitation is sent to a recognised Google account, for that user to become a Blogger author, it is met with this bX-b0uqh3 error:

The problem seems to be caused by Blogger not recognising a fresh (to Blogger) Google account, or more specifically they don’t provide a clear path to resolve it.

The invitation process stumbles and spews the error. The problem isn’t isolated either; there are a few posts in the Blogger Help Group that reference the same issue.

After a bit of experimenting we found a workaround.

1) Log in to Blogger with the Google account details of the person you want to invite, or get your desired author to log in to Blogger with their Google account.

2) Once logged in set that account up as a Blogger user, or get them to do that themselves. This is the prompt that Blogger needs in order to recognise them. Sign out.

3) Log in as Admin and in “permissions” invite your desired author/user, using their Google email account address (i.e. xyz@googlemail.com)

4) Get your desired author to accept the invitation, they can now log in and access the dashboard window.

(Thanks to Emily for helping me unravel this)