Do readers of my private blog have to sign up for WordPress?
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I set my blog to private, do users have to sign up for WordPress to read my blog? If so, is there a way to make a blog private and still be able to have readers not sign up for WordPress?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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WordPress “knows” who is who by the email addresses they use to make an account. This is similar to FaceBook, any of the Google offerings, and most sites online which restrict who can view a specific site.
Your readers don’t need to set up a blog! They only need to provide an email address to identify who can access your private blog.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/#invite-people-to-view-your-private-blog
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Hello!
Yes, they need an account.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/After marking your blog as private, visitors to your site will see the following notification if they are not logged into their WordPress.com account when trying to view your blog. All viewers added to a private blog must have a WordPress.com account—this ensures that only those you’ve authorized to see your blog are the ones viewing it:
If you are worried about having people sign up for WordPress to read your private blog, one solution could be to make the blog public but password protect your posts.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-visibility/ -
One caution about password protecting each post on your site:
You should not use the same password for each post. Keep in mind that it would take only one person to send that password to the public (FaceBook, email, other social media, in person) so that any and everyone would be able to read all of your posts.Setting up an account on WordPress entails only disclosing one email address. It could even be an email address which they could get for free and not use for anything else except to access your site.
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For password protected posts:
You’d also need to send passwords to (for example)
Catherine, Anne, Jane, Cleves, Howard, and Katherine
individually
in order to let them know about a post they could read.If you don’t ever, ever want what you write to go public, then do not post online.
Inviting users who set up an account is safe if you trust the users, but even that can expose what you have written. Someone could give their account/email access to another person you would not want to read it.
Paper and pen could be safer.
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Indeed! Even so, caution is the best advice.
Some users are very trusting. Using one password for all posts because it is convenient may test that faith to a bad result. We do not know the OP, nor do we know his or her friends and family and certainly not acquaintances. Best he or she be advised in advance of consequences which are possible.
A private blog with trusted and honest men (or women) with each setting up an account is both safe enough and private.
But even paper and pen (or typewriter) may fail to shroud secrets. My mother-in-law died unexpectedly, quickly, and there was reveled a dooozy! This is a philosophical question: what do you do with “secrets?”
Not all of us are Henry VIII… And was he happy?
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I would need to know – coming back to accounts and readers for private blogs – how comes I never got any request in my mail from people wanting to read it, since my sister let me know she sure had sent one? (I checked the email address associated with the account and didn’t find anything, not even in spam).
The same for the reverse situation, I sent invitations to some of my former readers, since the blog was public and they never received them.
Where these invitations go?
(not to mention the dozen requests for invitations I sent, the last seven years – never to be invited to read any of those blogs.
I would really like to find out…
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