Email forwarding
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I have been asked to coordinate volunteers who sign up through our WordPress site. I have received multiple emails asking me to ‘accept email forwarding,’ but every time I click to accept, I get a message that ‘the page I requested does not exist’ (or that I don’t have the necessary privileges to access it). I was made an editor, so I should have those privileges. Please advise on how I can fix this.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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You cannot issue username accounts and passwords on any site hosted by wordpress.COM. That can be done only on a wordpress.ORG software install on paid hosting. See: Moving to self hosted WordPress http://move.wordpress.com
re: adding users to a wordpress.COM site
Read: Administrator https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#administratorWhat I post below applies only to sites hosted by wordpress.COM.
You cannot password protect a whole wordpress.COM site. You can password protect posts and/ or pages on a site.
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. Contributors cannot upload images. If you want users to receive updates each time you publish new content you can invite them to be a follower/viewer.
Provided you are logged in as Admin under the exact same username account that registered the site, 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
Then see:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/
https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#adding-users-to-your-site
https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#adding-viewers-to-a-private-siteUsername accounts are required but registering blogs under them is not required. The invitees will have to register a WordPress.COM username account which requires an email address only, but they do 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.
If the person being invited to contribute to your blog does not already have one, he or she will have to register a WordPress.COM username account. He or she does not need to register a blog. There is a just a username please option. The invitees who lack username accounts select the “username only” option here: https://signup.wordpress.com/signup/?user=1
NOTE that as you have an account you would have to log out and clear your browser cache https://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/#clearing-your-browser-cache and cookies https://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/#clearing-wordpress-com-cookies to witness the process as the invitees without accounts would experience it.
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.
The invitees need to be logged into their WordPress.com account prior to clicking the “Accept Invitation” link.
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.
See here:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/ and here http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/
https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#changing-user-rolesNote:
The number 10 is the number of outstanding invitations you can have at any point in time. That limitation is a spammer prevention measure. Wait until the invitees have registered and send out 10 more. -
Have the person with the username account that registered the site ie. The Administrator read and act on email forwarding. https://en.support.wordpress.com/email-forwarding/
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To the best of my knowledge, only the person who bought the domain can set up email forwarding. In order to confirm this, I’ve tagged this thread for Staff attention.
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Thanks for your responses.
Timethief, I logged out and in again before I clicked the email link again, but got the same message.
Justjennifer, I was invited by the person who bought the domain. That same person also made me an editor in the hopes that it would give me the required privileges.
Any other thoughts?
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Read all an Editor can do here https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#editor
Have the person with the username account that registered the site ie. The Administrator read and act on email forwarding. https://en.support.wordpress.com/email-forwarding/
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HI there,
Please do what @timethief suggested. Forward that confirmation email to the site owner and ask them to click the link to verify. If that doesn’t work, please ask them to post in this thread.
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