I do not have a 'users' tab in my dashboard

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  wonderinginnewmexico · Member · Feb 25, 2017 at 10:42 pm

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  I need to add authors to my site and do not wish to email people and invite them

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

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  timethief · Member · Feb 25, 2017 at 10:46 pm

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  and do not wish to email people and invite them

  Then you cannot add them.

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  timethief · Member · Feb 25, 2017 at 10:48 pm

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  I do not have a ‘users’ tab in my dashboard

  You have to be logged in as Admin under the same username account that registered the site.

  If you are not logged in under the correct username account then 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 prior to logging into another account

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  timethief · Member · Feb 25, 2017 at 10:49 pm

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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 if 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. You can view the invitations sent from the WP-Admin (or classic) dashboard: http://NAME_OF_BLOG.wordpress.com/wp-admin/users.php?page=wpcom-invite-users

  * Replace NAME_OF_BLOG in that URL with the actual name of your site.