Inviting people to our private-set blog isn't working

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  wecomefromdreams · Member · May 25, 2016 at 1:40 am

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  We’re having the devil’s own time getting invitations to certain of our followers since we set our blog on ‘private.’ There’s a page where one can invite people, either by Word Press URL or via their email; we added the WP URLs, I mean, copied and pasted them, and got a message saying that they were invalid. How this can be is beyond us, but it’s exasperating. We’ve been here since the end of March and we’ve had a number of people who started following us and we want nothing to do with them. We ‘removed’ them on that one page where followers are shown, but we don’t want just anyone seeing our posts. If it means anything, we’re using Firefox (latest) and our browsing is set as ‘secure,’ i.e., the URLs begin ‘https…….’ Hope we can get some help and thank you!

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

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  timethief · Member · May 25, 2016 at 4:02 am

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  re: adding user access to a wordpress.com 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.

  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

  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.

  The 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. 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 log into wordpress.com, 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

  For notifications see:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/email-notifications/

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  timethief · Member · May 25, 2016 at 4:03 am

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  If you are not successful type modlook into the sidebar tags on this thread for Staff help. How do I get a Moderator/Staff reply for my question? https://en.support.wordpress.com/getting-help-in-the-forums/#how-do-i-get-a-moderatorstaff-reply-for-my-question Please subscribe to this thread so you are notified when they respond and be patient while waiting. To subscribe look in the sidebar of this thread, find the subscribe to topics link and click it.

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  wecomefromdreams · Member · May 25, 2016 at 4:54 am

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  This doesn’t answer my question at all.