How do my wordpress members/users log in to my wordpress site?

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  unseenhopemission · Member · Apr 4, 2015 at 9:56 pm

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  I have added some users to help post and manage my wordpress site unseenhopemission.wordpress.com
  I don’t have a login page and don’t know how to get one up.
  I read to go under general to activate it but there are no options showing up there. I am not sure how to do it. I also read to use a plugin but I am using a free wordpress site and don’t think we can add plugins. I also have a seperate website that I pay for and it has the options to create the login page in general but it is not the same on the free unseenhopemission.wordpress.com site.
  I do not have screen shots, I am unable to get any right now.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Apr 4, 2015 at 10:03 pm

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  You cannot create a membership registration site where you hand out username accounts and passwords so be clear on that because that can be done only on a WordPress.ORG install.

  There is no FTP access and no blogger installed plugin capability on any free hosted WordPress.COM blogs and there is no upgrade you can purchase here that changes that reality.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/ftp-access/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/plugins/

  None of the WordPress.COM upgrade plans allow for a fully fledged membership by registration site, including being able to provide usernames and passwords.

  WordPress.COM and WordPress.ORG are completely separate and have different logins, features, run different versions of some themes with the same names, and have separate support forums. Read the differences here http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  re: WordPress.COM hosted blogs
  You can have either a public or a private 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.

  See here:
  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 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.

  They will need to click the “Accept Invitation” button in the invitation email. If they are logged into their WordPress.com account, they will be taken directly to your blog. If not, they will be taken to the log-in screen, where they can either log in or create a new user account.

  Note that users who 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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  unseenhopemission · Member · Apr 4, 2015 at 11:27 pm

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  you.

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  unseenhopemission · Member · Apr 4, 2015 at 11:31 pm

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  Sorry, I messed that reply all up.
  I was trying to say…

  You are saying there is no way for an author to log in other than to go back to the email and click the except link? What if they deleted that email?
  I just want a person to help edit my website thats all, not others just the one.
  They will be editing not just once but for months to come…