Making a blog private

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  sharpfamilycavedwellers · Member · Dec 3, 2014 at 8:57 pm

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  So my family and I are venturing into a whole body health initiative and need a way to stay in touch, post our achievements and challenges, etc. We were hoping to use wordpress as a private blog/forum. Is there a way to restrict your blog access only to an approved list of people, and not to the general public?

  Thank you,
  Alex

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

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  timethief · Member · Dec 3, 2014 at 8:59 pm

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  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/

  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.
  See here:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/ and here http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/

  As noted above they need accounts but do not need to register blogs. 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.

  The limit is 10 invitations at any point in time. It’s a spammer prevention limit. So simply wait and then send out 10 more.

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  timethief · Member · Dec 3, 2014 at 9:00 pm

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  re: front page error message

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  It seems we can’t find what you’re looking for. Perhaps searching can help.

  By default the front page of the blog is the only page that will display all published posts on it. As soon as you publish a post not a page the error message appearing on the front page of every new WordPress.COM blog will be gone. http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/

  For creating a post see here http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/#publish-a-new-post
  For creating a page see here
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/#create-a-new-page

  For editing see:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/edit-posts-screen/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/edit-pages-screen/

  On the bottom of your Admin page you will find a link to the step by step Learn WordPress.com blogging Tutorial prepared by Staff. http://learn.wordpress.com/

  See also the “Video Quick Start” tutorial http://en.support.wordpress.com/video-quick-start/

  The support documentation is all found at the Support link http://en.support.wordpress.com which is also on the bottom of your Admin page.