inviting new users

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  danamitchell88 · Member · Apr 2, 2014 at 10:59 pm

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  Can users be added without a wordpress username? I need to keep this blog private and add specific viewers, but they would like to avoid creating a wordpress account.

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

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  timethief · Member · Apr 2, 2014 at 11:02 pm

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  How would the software know they were bona fide users of the site and not just hackers?

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  timethief · Member · Apr 2, 2014 at 11:04 pm

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  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. If you want users to receive updates each time you publish new content you can invite them to be a follower/viewer.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/#invite-people-to-view-your-private-blog
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/

  They will need to click the “Accept Invitation” button in the invitation email. If they are logged into their WordPress.com account, they will be taken directly to your blog. If not, they will be taken to the log-in screen, where they can either log in or create a new user account.

  Note that users who 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.

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  danamitchell88 · Member · Apr 2, 2014 at 11:09 pm

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  Thank you, understand what you mean from a security standpoint. However this blog is research for a one-time event. So those involved in the event only need to see it for a couple months. I sent them invitations, which they did not accept because they were prompted to create an account and didn’t want to.