Inviting followers to a private blog
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If I make my blog private, how can I invite many followers quickly?
Can I invite some 1000 followers simultaneously or do I have to invite one or few at a time?
How do I list those different followers in the invitation?
It says: “yourfriendusername (email visible only to moderators and staff)” but what about those who don’t end on wordpress.com?The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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No you cannot issue more than 10 invitations at any point in time. Doing more characterizes you as a spammer to the software because that’s what spammers do.
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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.
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-siteThe invitees will have to register a WordPress.COM username account which requires an email address only, but does 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.
Username accounts are required but registering blogs under them is not required.
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. Note that 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.
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.
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.
Lastly, there is a built-in spammer prevention so send out only 10 invitations at one point in time and then wait and manage those before sending out 10 more.
See here:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/ and here http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/ -
Thanks for the answer, but it’s a bit confusing. I am not interested in other contributors, just viewers.
1. I asked how to list the invited followers in the box “usernames or e-mail adresses”. It says there yourfriendusername, yourfriend wordpress.com.
I don’t have my followers e-mail addresses and what if their blogs name doesn’t end in wordpress.com? Or if they don’t have a blog? What do I write in that invitation box to properly identify who I am inviting?2. If I have more than 1000 followers, is there really no other way to invite them than just 10 at a time?
3. If a blog is made private and after a while becomes public again, will the old followers from the time it was public start to receive the e-mails about new posts again or do they have to follow the blog again?
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1. I asked how to list the invited followers in the box “usernames or e-mail adresses”. It says there yourfriendusername, yourfriend wordpress.com.
I don’t have my followers e-mail addresses and what if their blogs name doesn’t end in wordpress.com? Or if they don’t have a blog? What do I write in that invitation box to properly identify who I am inviting?You need to enter one of these to send an invitation:
1. wordpress.com username account
example: aditix
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/profile/aditix2. the email address of the person you want to invite.
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2. If I have more than 1000 followers, is there really no other way to invite them than just 10 at a time?
There is no other way.
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3. If a blog is made private and after a while becomes public again, will the old followers from the time it was public start to receive the e-mails about new posts again or do they have to follow the blog again?
Read – Changing a Site with Followers from Public To Private
https://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/#changing-a-site%C2%A0with-followers-from-public-to-private -
Thank you. In question 3 I meant when a private blog becomes public again after a while.
Will the old followers from the time before it became private automatically start to receive e-mails about new posts again or will they have to follow it again?What I am wondering about is – because wordpress makes it impossible to block unwanted followers – if making the blog private for a while, and then public again, would remove those followers.
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