How do I change invited viewers to a private site to authors?
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invitees were given the wrong role in error (they were invited with the ‘viewer’ selected instead of ‘author’), and now don’t show up on my ‘All users’, so their status can’t be changed?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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As viewers (private blog) and followers (public blog) are not listed on the Users page, so you can not change either of these roles to a contributing role without sending another invitation.
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. If you want users to receive updates each time you publish new content you can invite them to be a follower/viewer.
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
See here please:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/ and here http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/The person will have to register a username account which requires an email address only, but does 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.
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.
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.
Lastly, there is a built-in spammer prevention so send out only 10 invitations at one point in time and then wait and manage those before sending out 10 more.
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Thx Timethief, comprehensive answer. My own fault for not taking care with selecting the correct role the first time – but having to resend some 50 invitations to get them on board as authors is a little annoying.
Oh well, live and learn.
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You are welcome and you would not believe how much I have learned the hard way here over the course of the last 9 years. Best wishes with your site.
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