Allowing users onto to a private blog.

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  cantilever · Member · Mar 30, 2011 at 5:00 pm

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  I’ve made my blog private except for 8 people. How do those people log on to see the blog?

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

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  timethief · Member · Mar 30, 2011 at 5:39 pm

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  When you post to this forum please post the URL for the blog in question starting with http://
  Then we can confirm whether or not you are actually referring to a free hosted wordpress.COM blog, as 30% of those who post here aren’t – they are referring to wordpress.ORG installs that run on different software and the answers to their questions are not the same answers as they are for those with free blogs being free hosted by wordpress.COM.

  If you are referring to a free hosted wordpress.com blog please see these support documentation entries:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Mar 30, 2011 at 5:44 pm

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  See here:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/ :

  To add a user to your private blog

  Follow these directions if you have a private blog that you want to share with users of your choice, without giving them any editing access to your blog.

  Go to Settings -> Privacy in your dashboard.

  Type their WordPress.com username (just username, not username.wordpress.com) in the box and click “Add User.”If this person does not have a WordPress.com account and does not want their own blog, they can select “sign up for just a username” when they register.

  These people will now be able to read your private blog, and add comments if you’ve enabled them. They will not have access to your dashboard, nor will they be able to edit your blog.

  Note that a person you invite must have a WordPress username, not necessarily a blog: the email account the person uses to sign-up for his/her user name is how WordPress keeps track of who is allowed to read your blog.

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  cantilever · Member · Mar 30, 2011 at 6:44 pm

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  http://hildrethlane.wordpress.com

  I got my answer. People have to register a username, even if they don’t want a blog. that’s what I didn’t understand. Thank you.

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Mar 30, 2011 at 8:30 pm

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  You are welcome!