Can you invite people to read a private blog without being members of WordPress?
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How do you invite people to read a private blog without becoming members of WordPress? I’m trying to set up blog for my guide unit but I don’t want it to be public as I want to be able to publish details of meeting times and put photos of the girls participating in guide activities and our regulations within guiding won’t allow this to be publically accessible. I know that to invite users to a private blog they have to members of WordPress, but I don’t really want to ask parents to sign up to another thing that they might not use if I can help it. Is there a way to do this or not? Anyone got any ideas about how I could acheive this even if it’s not using WordPress?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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WordPress uses email addresses to keep track of who is who. That means it is necessary to keep a record of email addresses in order to identify who you want to allow to view your private site. The people you invite don’t need to set up a blog: they need only an account.
Google groups, Facebook, Flickr, and many others also use emails (and thus usernames/accounts) to identify who is who. I can’t think of any private site you could use which doesn’t require such information.
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You could password protect each post. But password protection will fail if the word gets out, so to speak. And having a different password for each post could get complicated: just letting each girl in your group know what the secret password is…
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The only information required to have an account is a username and a unique email address. The email addresses are not public, and the username does not have to be a real name. Everything else on the public profile is not required.
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This all makes sense and I understand why they would need to be identified. Can the administrator remove them as viewers when their daughters leave the unit?
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Yes, or you could delete the site/blog.
But the accounts made by each girl would remain as accounts on WordPress.com.
There is this:
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/is-there-some-way-to-delete-account?replies=2#post-1147886 -
I’d want it to continue for the remaining girls so wouldn’t want to create a new blog each year. Do you remove them on the users part of the dashboard?
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You can remove the girls as users of the site when they move on from year to year.
But maybe the “old girls” would like to “remain” in touch with the newer girls? I don’t know, would that be against the regulations of your organization?
But you can remove them because you are an administrator of the private site/blog. And invite new girls for the next year…
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