How do I block a follower?
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I have a follower I do not wish to have. How do I blog that person from following my blog?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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We cannot block or delete subscribers from public blogs. Anyone and everyone can access public blogs and that’s indeed what the public designation means. However, please read this about public blogs that become private blogs > Blog Privacy and Subscribers > http://wpcommaven.wordpress.com/2011/09/05/blog-privacy-and-subscribers/
To change blog visibility to Private go to Dashboard > Settings > Reading scroll to Site Visibility and choose option 3
http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/You don’t need an upgrade of any kind at all to invite multiple people to contribute to a private blog. See:
adding users http://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/
user roles http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/
Note that you have complete control over everything that’s posted to your blog via comment moderation
http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/#comment-moderationFor trolls, you can “blacklist” them at Settings > Discussion toward the bottom of that page. Enter their email address, their username, and if they included it, their website URL. That will automatically send them to moderation so that their comments do not appear on the blog. Do note though that if they are determined, they can use a different email address or username to get around that.
Also, do not put their IP address in the blacklist. IP addresses are no longer unique, and you might end up blocking legitimate visitors. In fact for over a decade only about 30% of us have IPs that trace back to any individual computer. Also, all they would have to do is go to a wi-fi hot spot, or connect via a different ISP and they could get around that.
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hi, i would like to delete all my followers for my private blog. can the admin help me please?
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What is the URL of the blog please? I tagged this thread for a Staff follow-up. Please subscribe to it so you are notified when they respond. To subscribe look in the sidebar of this thread, find the subscribe to topics link, and click it.
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@gohcrystallll this should be taken care of. Let me know if you have any follow-up questions.
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after you have deleted my followers, hope you can delete the comments i posted and the reply you sent to me too because i don’t feel comfortable having my name here. sorry for the trouble!
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I’m afraid we don’t delete threads, but I’ve removed the name of your site from your question. Hopefully that takes care of it for you :)
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I only saw one follower on the site you asked about: [site redacted] , and I removed him. Were you referring to a different site?
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oh okay thank you! Yup that is correct! Do remove the name of the site from this thread. That’s all thank you!
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