how to invite users

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  bloominjudy · Member · Feb 25, 2017 at 3:29 am

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  we have a site, I am an admin. On the left side of my site, I cannot find the terms ‘people’ or ‘users’ to extend an invitation to other people with an email. what am I missing.

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

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  timethief · Member · Feb 25, 2017 at 4:01 am

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  we have a site, I am an admin

  Groups do not own blogs. Every WordPress.COM blog has a sole owner. It is the person with the WordPress.COM username account who registered the blog under that username account and a single associated email address, and who is the original Admin of the blogs registered under that username account. The recommendation is for one and only one Admin per site. https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#administrator The original Admin is the owner of the site. Their role includes Inviting Contributors, Followers, and Viewers
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/

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  timethief · Member · Feb 25, 2017 at 4:02 am

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  re: adding users to a wordpress.COM site
  Read: Administrator https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#administrator

  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

  Then see:
  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

  Username accounts are required but registering blogs under them is not required. The invitees will have to register a WordPress.COM username account which requires an email address only, but they do 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.

  If the person being invited to contribute to your blog does not already have one, he or she will have to register a WordPress.COM username account. He or she does not need to register a blog. There is a just a username please option. The invitees who lack username accounts select the “username only” option here: https://signup.wordpress.com/signup/?user=1

  NOTE that as you have an account you would have to log out and clear your browser cache https://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/#clearing-your-browser-cache and cookies https://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/#clearing-wordpress-com-cookies to witness the process as the invitees without accounts would experience it.

  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.

  The invitees need to be logged into their WordPress.com account prior to clicking the “Accept Invitation” link.

  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.

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

  Note:
  The number 10 is the number of outstanding invitations you can have at any point in time. That limitation is a spammer prevention measure. Wait until the invitees have registered and send out 10 more.