Limit on Private Blog readers?
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In the past, having a private blog on wordpress.com had a limit of 35 readers, unless you made a purchase that would allow more. It looks like many things have changed on wordpress.com (I’ve been using mostly .org self-hosted recently, so I haven’t kept up with the new changes on .com). I am trying to find out what the limit is now on a private blog on wordpress.com. I cannot find this information anywhere. Does it mean that there is no longer a limit?
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You can have either a public or a private 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. 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
See here please:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/ and here http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/The person will have to register a username account 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.
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.
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.
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Thank you. I’m very familiar with how it works. I had a short-term private blog in the past (back when there was a 35 reader limit) and I was looking at it again and couldn’t see any information about the limit. That was the only part that had me confused. I have a friend wanting to set up a private blog and I recommended WordPress to her but she needed more than 35 readers and I wasn’t sure if that limit was still in effect or not. Thanks again!
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