Helping friends read my protected blog posts
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My site is x
I have a private blog and invited a number of people to visit it. Most successfully registered and were able to access my pages. A substantial minority of friends, including several very bright individuals with copious internet experience were unable, and I cannot help them.I need a very simple and foolproof short video that will walk them through the process without fail. While I have been able to find a few explanations of the process that clearly works for most people, a more user-friendly introduction to being a viewer or follower is needed.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Username 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.
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.
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-roles -
My site is x
Please do understand that no one can provide an accurate answer to any support question unless or until the person who posts the thread provides the exact URL of the site. Only after the URL has been provided can we use http://www.whoishostingthis.com/ to confirm where the site is hosted. This is wordpress.COM support and we provide support only for sites that are hosted on our servers.
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