Invited Author not showing up under under "All Users"?

jewskillbrant · Member · Jan 1, 2015 at 9:48 am
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I have sent numerous invitations but Author is not showing up under Users.

The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
musicdoc1 · Member · Jan 1, 2015 at 10:07 am
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Did the Author accept the invitation?
jewskillbrant · Member · Jan 1, 2015 at 10:43 am
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Yes, and just as below from another blogger they (I) did everything correctly.

michellehassler
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Sep 11, 2012, 7:05 PM

I’m having a similar problem. I’m a teacher at a university and I invite my students to post to the class blog. Two of them received my invitations and accepted, but cannot get access to the blog to post. (The rest were able to do so easily.)

The two who can’t get access are showing up as “waiting” in my invitation list.

I’ve sent numerous invitations to their emails, to their usernames and to their username + wordpress.com addresses, to no avail. They are both very frustrated — as am I.

The blog: http://unlnnn.wordpress.com/

~ Ialso tried the technique below as well and is doesn’t work for me either.

creativity1011
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Oct 19, 2012, 1:11 PM

I have encountered the same problem, too—and I think c&ping the link is the solution. I set up a secondary account to be able to invite myself and check out all the steps:
1) log in to your wordpress account. (The page will probably look a little empty, as if something is missing)
2) check out your invitation mail and copy the link from the bottom of the mail
3) return to the browser window where you logged in to wordpress
4) paste the link into the browser window.

You will receive the notification that you were added to the blog, and the page will look like a “real” dashboard.

Good luck :)
Tanja

This did not work for me as well, seems to be an issue on your end or possibly something else?
musicdoc1 · Member · Jan 1, 2015 at 11:03 am
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I’ve tagged the topic for Staff attention.

I saw another thread recently in which something similar was described, with some students failing to gain access to an account. A staff member suggested that the issue might be too many students using the same PC (IP address), which would signal WordPress security to produce automatic rejections at some point. Perhaps it something like that. Staff should be able to identify the issue.
musicdoc1 · Member · Jan 1, 2015 at 11:07 am
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@ jewskillbrant,

I’m sorry. Confusing your case with the similar examples you provided. In your instance, it is just one User failing to appear, correct?
jewskillbrant · Member · Jan 1, 2015 at 1:22 pm
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Correct, in my case I am only trying to add another single Author.

Thanks…
birkovic · Member · Jan 1, 2015 at 8:42 pm
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I have the exact same problem. Try to add new users, and they (or rather I) accept the invite, but nothing happens. Repeated multiple times with different categories (admin to viewer). In my dashboard I just see the user as “waiting” and under “invited users”.

Just wanted to mention this.
timethief · Member · Jan 1, 2015 at 8:44 pm
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@birkovic
Thanks but please be aware that your comment has no value unless or until we can verify the URL so we know whether or not the blog is hosted by WordPress.COM. Please provide the URL unless the blog has mature content.
kbstyrelse · Member · Jan 2, 2015 at 6:41 pm
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Oh! Really sorry, did not know that. Should have readup on the rules more. Here it is: http://karlstadbokcafe.wordpress.com
birkovic · Member · Jan 2, 2015 at 6:46 pm
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And… sorry again kbstyrelse is actually the user that Iam trying to add. Was logged in with the ‘wrong’ account.
branthaeg · Member · Jan 3, 2015 at 4:34 am
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Okay, here’s what worked.

I sent an invitation to another one of my wordpress.com websites asking them to contribute as an Author. I then logged out of the website I sent the invitation from.

Then I went and logged into the invitee’s website BEFORE I went to my email and clicked to accept invitation to become an Author.

It worked!

However, if you do not have a wordpress.com website or are not logged into the one you do have before you accept the invitation, I wasn’t able to add the Author.

Worse case scenario is for people who want to contribute on another site is to first to create their own wordpress.com website.

hopes this helps… thanks to everyone for their time on this issue.
jewskillbrant · Member · Jan 3, 2015 at 4:42 am
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“branthaeg” is the Author I was trying to add.
musicdoc1 · Member · Jan 4, 2015 at 3:59 am
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However, if you do not have a wordpress.com website or are not logged into the one you do have before you accept the invitation, I wasn’t able to add the Author.

“Author” is a User role. By definition a “User” is a WordPress.com member. So the first condition in the above statement is true. I wasn’t aware of the second condition: “or are not logged into the one you do have before you accept the invitation.”

It makes sense that the User might have to be logged in to his/her WordPress account before accepting the invitation, though it seems that the invitee should be able to click the accept link in his email (at your second email address, in this case) and then log in to go to the her/his website.

However, if you are both sender and receiver (under separate accounts) and if you are already logged in to the account of the invitation sender, then logging in to the account of the receiver on the same PC with the same browser would be blocked. One solution is to use a separate browser to the second account.
musicdoc1 · Member · Jan 4, 2015 at 4:04 am
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Correction / revision of the last sentence in previous post:

One workaround might be to use a separate browser to access the email of the second account, accept the invitation, and access the second account without issue.
musicdoc1 · Member · Jan 4, 2015 at 4:19 am
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The issue is resolved.

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