Maximum number of users on private blog

• 

  angonza2 · Member · Nov 8, 2016 at 5:15 am

  • Copy link
  • Add topic to favorites

  Am I reading the directions correctly in that you can only add 10 users to a private blog? If I upgrade, does it allow me to add more users? I need to create a private blog that ~150 people will ultimately have access to. Thank you.

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

• 

  timethief · Member · Nov 9, 2016 at 3:21 am

  • Copy link

  That’s not correct. There is no maximum number.

  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.
  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

  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.

  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

  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.

  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.

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

• 

  timethief · Member · Nov 9, 2016 at 3:22 am

  • Copy link

  P.S. No upgrade is required.