Adding Authors is not working

  • Unknown's avatar

    I have sent an email to some of my collaborators for my blog so that they can help me with blog posts. Sending the email is not the problem. They can receive the email but when they click on the accept link. It brings them to their readers list instead of to the blog page. Is there any way to fix this? We have send multiple emails and tried all the ways that we can think of to get them accepted as authors. We are getting a little desperate.

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

  • Unknown's avatar

    The person being invited will have to register a username account, if they do not already have one, but they do not need to register a blog. They will need to click the “Accept Invitation” button in the invitation email. If they are logged into their WordPress.com account, they will be taken directly to your blog. If not, they will be taken to the log-in screen, where they can either log in or create a new user account.

    Note that users who 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/

    If they have accepted the invitation and still experience issues then they need to log in under their WordPress.COM username account and post into this thread, tag the thread with modlook, and wait for Staff assistance.

  • Unknown's avatar

    Thank you for the help. The person that I am trying to add has a wordpress account. But when she clicks the accept button it takes her straight to her readers feed. She also does not show up in my users list. We have tried the button and the link at the bottom.

  • Unknown's avatar

    Please have that person login to WordPress.COM and post into this thread for Staff help as I described above.

  • Have her make sure that she is logged into WordPress.com before clicking the accept link.

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