Hi – I want to start a membershipsite. W
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Hi – I want to start a membershipsite. WP owns Wishlist Member, do I need to have a Business Plan before I can do this as that the expensive plan?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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You cannot create a network ie. a wordpress.ORG multi site at wordpress.COM. Please read this https://wordpress.org/search/multisite
Here at wordpress.COM the closest you can come to that is to build a Membership website: https://en.support.wordpress.com/tutorials/build-a-membership-website-tutorial/
If you wish to make some people official users of your WordPress.COM site with limited user roles read on.
What 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. If you select option 1 then the blog will be a public one, available to all with internet access to read.
If you wish to add official users see these support docs:
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-site -
There’s always an exception of course, and in this case it requires upgrading the site to a WordPress.COM Business plan so you can install the required plugins.
Blogger installed plugins and third party or custom themes cannot be used on WordPress.COM hosted sites unless you have a Business Plan. We have 4 different plans: free, personal, premium and business. All hosting is free regardless of which plan you choose. You can view all wordpress.com plan features here https://wordpress.com/pricing/
All support docs are at https://en.support.wordpress.com/
https://en.support.wordpress.com/ftp-access/
Blogger installed plugins
https://en.support.wordpress.com/plugins/
Uploading Custom Themes or Third Party Themes
http://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/adding-new-themes/Also note that if you upgrade to a Business plan and install plugins, and then downgrade to a lower plan, the plugins and all features unique to the Business plan will no longer be available for your use.
If you do not wish to purchase a Business plan see also: moving to self hosted WordPress http://move.wordpress.com
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