How does someone sign-up to be an author but not have a website or blog?

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  jkvegh · Member · Feb 19, 2015 at 1:12 pm

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  They are trying to do this for my website, so I can have guest authors but it is treating her like a person starting a blog.

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

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  timethief · Member · Feb 19, 2015 at 4:49 pm

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  They have to create an account. They do not have to register a blog. They select the “username only” option here:
  https://signup.wordpress.com/signup/?user=1 (Note: If you check this yourself than you have to be logged out in order for it to load properly).

  See:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/ and here http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/

  The person being invited will have to register a username account, if they do not already have one, but they do not need to register a 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.