How to use the 35-users feature
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We are using this blog to publish a “newsletter” to our employees. I would like to restrict the blog to just our employees in some fashion. I would like to know if this will work, and if this is an acceptable use of the feature.
Set the site to private
Create a wordpress login
Share the login with employees
Change the login occasionallyThe question is, though, is giving the login to a couple hundred people an acceptable use of the feature? I don’t want everyone to have to create their own account, then manually add them – this is a few hundred people!
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The question is, though, is giving the login to a couple hundred people an acceptable use of the feature? I don’t want everyone to have to create their own account, then manually add them – this is a few hundred people!
No it is not. IMO you ought to read the following entries and then purchase and annually renewable unlimited private users upgrade
adding users to your private blog
Type their WordPress.com username (just username, not username.wordpress.com) in the box and click “Add User.”If this person does not have a WordPress.com account and does not want their own blog, they can select “sign up for just a username” when they register. These people will now be able to read your private blog, and add comments if you’ve enabled them. They will not have access to your dashboard, nor will they be able to edit your blog.
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I don’t mind paying the fee.
It’s adding – manually – several hundred users that I can’t stomach. Not only do each of them have to create a login, but then they have to send it to me, and I have to add it.
So I think we’ll just have to go with public and ask search engines not to index. Oh well. I’ll watch to see if this changes in the future.
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@commcrew
And not to mention what happens when an employee leaves.
Note that you can mark some posts as “password protected” for the more sensitive information. (Though that is no guarantee that those posts will never become public.)Neither of the options (from “Private”) are completely secure. If all you want is to stay under the radar, and what you are posting is, well, boring, then they will do fine.
Otherwise, you could do an employee newsletter where you update who it goes to. But then you couldn’t use wp.com and you’d need someone to keep a database of who would get it.
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True, but if an employee leaves, worst-case scenario is they change the password and lock everyone else out. That’s why I was thinking of just changing to a new login every few months (i.e., tell everyone to use JoeUserName/Joe!Password, then a few weeks later use JaneUserName / Jane!Password, ad infinatum.)
No thanks on the newsletter suggestion, that’s exactly what we’ve been doing. Time to come into the 21st century. :-)
Our content is boring, but we’re a company in the local public eye.
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Private blog readers can not change passwords nor do they have access to editing your posts.
But you’d want to remove former employees from the list of users.
I’d suspect there are people who use this system just as you are proposing. Maybe you should check with Support Staff to see what their opinion is on it? (I’m not staff: they have a grey rectangle around their names and gravatars) For example, I’ve seen questions like this from teachers who just want all their students to read the classroom blog without having to get wp users accounts…
My work company is very small and we very seldom send out a newsletter, but having done that just yesterday, I understand the problem with that system. At one time we used Constant Contact, but that was not so simple either…
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They can’t edit posts, but since they have a WP login they can change that password. And if everyone is sharing one login, they would effectively lock everyone out. But ofcourse all we’d have to do is add a new login and share it again.
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