my blog users can't open attachments

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  ksimicmuller · Member · Sep 24, 2012 at 4:32 am

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  My blog is open only to registered users. When they try to open documents attached to the blog they are repeatedly asked to log in to open them, but are never actually allowed to open the attachments.
  Blog url: http://math446f12.wordpress.com/

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

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Sep 24, 2012 at 9:01 pm

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  Are they logged in as one of the allowed users at Settings -> Privacy in your Dashboard?

  If not, you’ll need to invite them as Viewers via Users -> Invite New.

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  ksimicmuller · Member · Sep 24, 2012 at 9:16 pm

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  Well, they are allowed users and can access the blog content, just not attachments.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Sep 24, 2012 at 9:22 pm

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  Ok, are you referring to the .docx at the bottom of http://math446f12.wordpress.com/2012/09/24/monday-september-24/ ?

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  ksimicmuller · Member · Sep 24, 2012 at 9:25 pm

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  No, try http://math446f12.wordpress.com/assignments-and-readings/, for readingsdue 09/24.
  (Thanks for looking into this!)

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Sep 24, 2012 at 9:30 pm

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  These were inserted with the referrer hidden, so they have href.li/? appended to the beginning of the URL.

  Do you have any luck if you remove that?

  To prevent that, check “I would like my links to be public, without passing through hiderefer.com” at Settings -> Privacy in your Dashboard.

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  ksimicmuller · Member · Sep 25, 2012 at 7:00 pm

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  I will try, but again, it looks like only the links to websites had the referrer hidden, and the students are having trouble with the pdf files.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Sep 25, 2012 at 7:04 pm

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  The document links in the post you provided also had the referrer hidden.