access for friends to our site

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    reddustwanderers · Member ·

    we want to have friends view the site. do we have to make it private in order for them not being able to edit it? it seems that if this happens each of them have to have a wordpress account and we can only have 10 of them. correct or not?

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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    ackaeser · Member ·

    Hello @reddustwanderers,

    If you select the “Hidden” option for your blog it will allow human visitors to be able to read your blog and will block web crawlers for search engines. (Please note, however, that not all search engines respect this setting.) A hidden blog does not require a WordPress account or permission for access.

    To allow only specific people to view your site you will need to select the “private” option. If you’d like to add viewers to a private site, please follow the invitation instructions on this page. All viewers added to a private site must have a WordPress.com account — this ensures that only those people you’ve authorized are able to view it.

    Hope this helps you decide which option will work best for you.

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    timethief · Member ·

    You can have either a public or a private WordPress.COM hosted blog and there is no limitation on the total number of contributors to any blog. If you’d like to invite others to publish posts or help approve comments on your blog, you can invite them to be a Contributor, Editor, or Author. Contributors cannot upload images. If you want users to receive updates each time you publish new content you can invite them to be a follower/viewer.

    Provided you are logged in as Admin under the exact same username account that registered the site, to change blog visibility to Private go to > Settings > Reading scroll to Blog Visibility and choose option 3. See the guide here http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings

    Then see:
    https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/
    https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#adding-users-to-your-site
    https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#adding-viewers-to-a-private-site

    Username accounts are required but registering blogs under them is not required. The invitees will have to register a WordPress.COM username account which requires an email address only, but they do not need to register a blog. That requirement is because the software has to be able to differentiate between hackers and official users and allow access only to those with username accounts and official roles on the blog.

    If the person being invited to contribute to your blog does not already have one, he or she will have to register a WordPress.COM username account. He or she does not need to register a blog. There is a just a username please option. The invitees who lack username accounts select the “username only” option here: https://signup.wordpress.com/signup/?user=1

    NOTE that as you have an account you would have to log out and clear your browser cache https://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/#clearing-your-browser-cache and cookies https://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/#clearing-wordpress-com-cookies to witness the process as the invitees without accounts would experience it.

    Upon receipt of the invitation, the invitee will need to click the “Accept Invitation” button in the invitation email. If the invitee is logged into their WordPress.com username account, he or she will be taken directly to your blog. If not, he or she will be taken to the log-in screen, where he or she can either log in, or can register a new WordPress.COM user account.

    The invitees need to be logged into their WordPress.com account prior to clicking the “Accept Invitation” link.

    Note that invitees who do create a new WordPress.com account at that point will still need to return to the invitation email and click the “Accept Invitation” button after doing so.

    See here:
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/ and here http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/
    https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#changing-user-roles

    Note:
    The number 10 is the number of outstanding invitations you can have at any point in time. That limitation is a spammer prevention measure. Wait until the invitees have registered and send out 10 more.

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