Activation email

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    espanolflo3bac · Member ·

    I have received two activation emails, but always lead to a 404 server error. Please be so kind to help me activating my blog.

    Also, I would like this blog to be private, but I see only 10 people can be invited. I am sure I’m looking at the wrong place. How could I invite more than 10 people to visit the page and commenting (not editing or posting?)

    Many thanks in advance

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

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    timethief · Member ·

    I would like this blog to be private, but I see only 10 people can be invited. I am sure I’m looking at the wrong place. How could I invite more than 10 people to visit the page and commenting (not editing or posting?)

    That’s not correct. The 10 invitations at one time is a spammer prevention. It is not a limit to the total number.

    You can password protect posts https://en.support.wordpress.com/post-visibility/ and pages https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/page-visibility/. You cannot password protect a whole site. You can make the site either public or private and add official users.

    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.
    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

    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.

    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

    The invitees will have to register a WordPress.COM username account which requires an email address only, but does 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.

    Username accounts are required but registering blogs under them is not required.

    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.

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

    Lastly, there is a built-in spammer prevention so send out only 10 invitations at one point in time and then wait and manage those before sending out 10 more.

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

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    timethief · Member ·

    I have received two activation emails, but always lead to a 404 server error. Please be so kind to help me activating my blog.

    I will type modlook into the sidebar tags on this thread for a Staff follow-up. How do I get a Moderator/Staff reply for my question? https://en.support.wordpress.com/getting-help-in-the-forums/#how-do-i-get-a-moderatorstaff-reply-for-my-question Also subscribe to this thread so you are notified when they respond and be patient while waiting. To subscribe look in the sidebar of this thread, find the subscribe to topics link and click it.

  • staff-doublebassd · Staff ·

    Hi there,

    There is a glitch in our system that prevented you from receiving the activation e-mail from us. We apologize for the inconvenience. However, I have fixed the issue on our end, so you should be ready to go. Let me know if you have any questions.

    Thanks!

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