Cannot find "Membership" under Settings->General

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  ramlyed · Member · Mar 23, 2012 at 3:14 pm

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  Purpose: I am trying to allow blog visitors to sign-up/register as blog users (say, Contributors by default).

  Approach: According to the link below, I should be able to do it easily with Settings->General->Memberships
  http://codex.wordpress.org/Settings_General_Screen

  Problem: Memberships doesn’t show up on my Settings->General page, which currently looks like this:

  Site Title
  Tagline
  E-mail Address
  Timezone
  Date Format
  Time Format
  Language

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  auxclass · Member · Mar 23, 2012 at 3:28 pm

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  http://codex.wordpress.org/Settings_General_Screen

  That is for a WordPress.ORG install – the blog linked to your name is a WordPress.COM blog – software works differently – You can’t use those instructions here.

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  ramlyed · Member · Mar 23, 2012 at 4:27 pm

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  Thank you, that’s helpful. Do you know how I can allow visitors to register themselves as users of my wordpress.COM blog?

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  auxclass · Member · Mar 23, 2012 at 4:31 pm

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  can allow visitors to register themselves as users of my wordpress.COM blog?

  You can’t on WordPress.COM – you must invite each person you want to contribute to your blog and they must accept the invitation.

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  ramlyed · Member · Mar 23, 2012 at 4:36 pm

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  Oh. Any work arounds / plugins at all?

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  timethief · Member · Mar 23, 2012 at 5:51 pm

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  No. There is no FTP access to free hosted WordPress.com blogs and we can’t install plugins into them. WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org > http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  The instructions for inviting others to contribute to your free hosted WordPress.com blog are found here > Inviting Contributors, Followers, and Viewers

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  ramlyed · Member · Mar 23, 2012 at 6:18 pm

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  Ok. Thank you both for your help. I am going to mark this topic as resolved.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 23, 2012 at 6:53 pm

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  You’re welcome from me and best wishes with your blog.

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  ramlyed · Member · Mar 23, 2012 at 6:56 pm

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  Thank you.