"Add new user" feature

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  lavorofatto1 · Member · Oct 14, 2015 at 10:28 am

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  Hi there, not sure I get this right.
  I’d like to add a new user granting him rights to post using our own name. At the moment, we are on a WP FREE plan, I’m only able to invite an external user who actually has a WP account to post via his own name/account.
  Is this the way supposed to work on WP paying plans as well? Or will I be able to create a brand new user within our account?
  Thanks

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

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  fstat · Staff · Oct 14, 2015 at 10:55 am

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  You can’t create users within your account. You can only invite users and assign them roles. This applies to every plan.

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  lavorofatto1 · Member · Oct 14, 2015 at 10:58 am

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  Thanks

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  fstat · Staff · Oct 14, 2015 at 11:04 am

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  You’re welcome!

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  bitchwithanappetite · Member · Oct 15, 2015 at 6:28 pm

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  hello i too am trying to add users to my blog. i have sent the email invitations and when one of the users tries to accept the invitation, nothing really happens nor is the person listed as a user of the blog. is there something else different i need to do? this blog is going to be managed by two people.

  blog name is bitchwithanappetite.wordpress.com

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  timethief · Member · Oct 15, 2015 at 6:32 pm

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  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. If you want users to receive updates each time you publish new content you can invite them to be a follower/viewer.

  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.

  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 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.

  nothing really happens nor is the person listed as a user of the blog

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