clarification about invitation to edit and process

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  carmeloconnell · Member · Oct 4, 2015 at 1:06 am

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  I have invited another to be an editor of my site. Does this person need to set up their own wordpress account first to be able to access the site.

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

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  brianzed · Member · Oct 4, 2015 at 1:41 am

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  Hi @carmeloconnell,

  To answer your question, yes they need an account.
  They can sign up here

  https://wordpress.com/start/account/user

  Once they have an account, they can accept the invitation to be your editor and start editing away!

  Hope this helps!

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  eastahighguy · Member · Oct 4, 2015 at 6:42 pm

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  It says nothing in the info about visitors needing a WordPress acct in order to use the account as an author, it just says if I submit their emails and invite as authors they should have access but that’s not happening for my invitees!!!!!

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  eastahighguy · Member · Oct 4, 2015 at 6:42 pm

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  It says nothing in the info about visitors needing a WordPress acct in order to use the account as an author, it just says if I submit their emails and invite as authors they should have access but that’s not happening for my invitees!!!!!

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  eastahighguy · Member · Oct 4, 2015 at 6:44 pm

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  AND they don’t see a My Blog on the web page when they access it. What’s up w/ that???

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  eastahighguy · Member · Oct 4, 2015 at 6:44 pm

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  AND they don’t see a My Blog on the web page when they access it. What’s up w/ that???

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  timethief · Member · Oct 5, 2015 at 4:35 pm

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  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.