Maximum Simultaneous WordPress Logins
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Hi WordPress,
I’m setting up a FAQ page for work on private setting which requires username and password.
How many logins are allowed with one user name? We have over 50 staff members and WordPress only allows 10 individual VIEWER users. Hence I want to share one login for 50 people.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Let’s start with the fact that you cannot hand out username accounts and passwords for any wordpress.COM hosted sites. That can only be done on wordpress.ORG software installs on paid hosting. See here: Moving to self hosted WordPress httsp://moive.wordpress.com
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Sharing login information is a security breach that is NOT supported at all ever.
What I post below applies only to sites hosted by wordpress.COM.
You cannot password protect a whole wordpress.COM site. You can password protect posts and/ or pages on a 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.
Provided you are logged in as Admin under the exact same username account that registered the site, 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-siteUsername accounts are required but registering blogs under them is not required. The invitees will have to register a WordPress.COM username account which requires an email address only, but they do 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.
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.
The invitees need to be logged into their WordPress.com account prior to clicking the “Accept Invitation” link.
Note that invitees who do 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.
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-rolesNote:
The number 10 is the number of outstanding invitations you can have at any point in time. That limitation is a spammer prevention measure. Wait until the invitees have registered and send out 10 more. -
As I said above if you want to hand out username accounts and passwords you have to hire a web host and move to a wordpress.ORG software install.
WordPress.COM and WordPress.ORG are completely separate and have different username accounts, logins, features, run different versions of some themes with the same names, and have separate support documentation and separate support forums. Read the differences here http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
If you don’t have a username account at WordPress.ORG account, then click http://wordpress.org/support/ and register one on the top right-hand corner of the page that opens, https://wordpress.org/support/register.php so you can post to the support forums there.
Resetting your WordPress.ORG password http://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_Password
WordPress.org support docs are at https://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
See also https://apps.wordpress.org/support/Move Your Domain to Another Host https://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/move-domain/
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Yikes: I see typos above – sorry
See here: Moving to self hosted WordPress https://move.wordpress.com
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Thank for the quick response Timethief.
I have created an account for myself for Admin use which contains the private site.
Then I created another account (Viewer Account) by invite. It is this account which i planned to share with 50 staff members.
Sending out 50 individual invites with some not so savvy with computers and them having to set up their own account will be very difficult.
So in short. I will avoid using WP. I understand your comments about not sharing accounts. In my case sharing viewer accounts.
Thanks.
RZURXN
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I understand your comments about not sharing accounts. In my case sharing viewer accounts.
Best wishes.
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