cannot add an author

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  livefromv · Member · Sep 30, 2015 at 7:09 pm

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  Hello.

  I wish to add a username as an author. Despite sending and accepting invitations several times, the username is not added as an author.

  Please help!

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

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  timethief · Member · Sep 30, 2015 at 7:18 pm

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  The person in question has to accept your invitation. Has that been done?

  The person in question also has to register a username account. Has that been done?

  Here is the process:
  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.

  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

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

  The person will have to register a 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.

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  timethief · Member · Sep 30, 2015 at 7:19 pm

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  Oops! I forgot to ask what the WordPress.COM username is of the person who you say has accepted the invitation?

  I typed typed modlook into the sidebar tags on this thread for Staff help. 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 Then please subscribe to this thread so you are notified when they respond. To subscribe look in the sidebar of this thread, find the subscribe to topics link and click it.

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  supernovia · Staff · Oct 1, 2015 at 1:02 am

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  Hi @livefromv, I can see both recent invites have created accounts, but one of them still needs to accept the invitation. They’ll need to find the invitation email and, while logged in, click the invitation link inside. Let us know if you need more help!