Is it possible that people can read my blog without having an account here?

  • Unknown's avatar
    scarlettoharalives · Member ·

    Hey! I made a private blog. Just for my family and friends. No one of them has a WordPressaccount. If I invite them to read my blog they get the invitation and need to sign up. I don’t think that many of them will register here, just because they want to read my blog. But I don’t want it to be public. So what can I do, that my friends are able to read/view my posts? It is really important that only people I want to, have the chance to read it.
    Is there any possiblity to keep my blog private via password?

    Thanks for your help!

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

  • Unknown's avatar
    harishankerr · Member ·

    Hello!

    I’m afraid, users will have to do a one time sign-up in WordPress to access private WordPress.com blogs they’re invited to. If signing up on WordPress is not an issue for them (it takes barely a few minutes, acutally), I would suggest you to keep your blog private.

    However, there is a workaround.

    You can actually password-protect individual posts of your blog.

    In the post editor, on your right side – you’ll find an option to set a password to individual posts. You may share this password with your intended readers, so that they may read them.

    However, please note that you cannot set a password on an entire blog. You can only set passwords for individual posts

    There’s a detailed article on post-visibility in the WordPress.com support page that would walk you through the entire process:https://en.support.wordpress.com/post-visibility/

    Hope this helps.

    Cheers!
    Hari.

  • The topic ‘Is it possible that people can read my blog without having an account here?’ is closed to new replies.