Internal Blog Help

  • Unknown's avatar
    cfishercca · Member ·

    Hello!
    My company is looking to create an internal blog for our company. I have started to play around with the site and add blog posts and pages so we can get an idea of what it would look like. I do have a question about adding viewers though. We would like this to be a private page for just our company and would prefer to not have to have everyone log in every time they want to read a post. We have around 500 employees and that would mean a lot of people wouldn’t even bother creating an account. Is there anyway where we can create it so that it can be a private page for our company but not have everyone login? Or is there a way to just have one login for everyone?

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

  • Unknown's avatar
    rambogenius · Member ·

    Hi,

    I am trying to understand this better. Are you trying to make a blog that is entirely private and only users invited to it can view it

    or just 1 page that is private and sharing that will introduce your 500 employees to this blog?

    Let me know so that I can help you further.

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    timethief · Member ·

    Is there anyway where we can create it so that it can be a private page for our company but not have everyone login? Or is there a way to just have one login for everyone?

    The WordPress.COM answers are no and no. Login information is never to be shared and used by any more than a single person. Sharing login information is a security breach.

    You cannot hand out username account and passwords for any wordpress.COM hosted site. That can only be done on a wordpress.ORG multi-site installation. If that is what you are seeking see: Moving to self hosted wordpress http://move.wordpress.com

    What I post below applies only to sites hosted by wordpress.COM. If you wish to make some people official users of your WordPress.COM site with limited user roles read on.

    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. If you select option 1 then the blog will be a public one, available to all with internet access to read.

    If you wish to add official users see these support docs:
    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.

    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.

    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.

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