MY EMAIL IS BLOCKED FROM ACCEPTING NEW INVITES TO BE A ADMINISTRATOR OF WEBSITES

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  patcorcaigh · Member · Dec 1, 2025 at 4:26 pm

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  STUDENTS CANNOT ADD ME AS AN ADMINSTRATOR. BLOCKED INVITE MESSAGE POPS UP WHEN THEY INSERT MY EMAIL ADDRESS. THIS OCCURED A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO AS WELL. PROBLEM WAS RESOLVED BUT HAS RETURNED. ADVICE PLEASE ON HOW DO I UNBLOCK MY EMAIL ADDRESS AS A USER.

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

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  lucasbinati · Member · Dec 6, 2025 at 3:03 am

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  Hi @patcorcaigh,

  I’ve tagged your topic so the staff team can help you further. Good luck :)

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  staff-davidw · Staff · Dec 8, 2025 at 7:56 am

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  Hi @patcorcaigh – I have replied via email with more information.

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  patcorcaigh · Member · Dec 20, 2025 at 3:57 pm

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  Hello.

  Problem remains.

  Where do I find a solution?

  Thank you for your assistance.

  Pat

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  staff-webwizard · Staff · Dec 20, 2025 at 4:05 pm

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  Hi there!

  Did you find our email? If you haven’t found it yet, please look for a message with this subject line: “WordPress.com Support – Blocked Email”.

  If you found and try the recommendations in the email, and the issue persists after trying those, please respond to that message and we’ll continue to assist you there.

  Have a great day!

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  patcorcaigh · Member · Dec 20, 2025 at 8:57 pm

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  Good evening.

  I am receiving an email notification advising that you have responded (thanks for that) but no email with a solution.

  Feedback appreciated.

  Pat

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  rwye1 · Staff · Dec 21, 2025 at 6:47 am

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  Hi @patcorcaigh,

  We can see that you have been added to quite a few sites recently.

  However, since so many invites were sent and accepted in such a short period, our security system has temporarily flagged the activity as “too fast.” This is a security measure designed to prevent spam bots from flooding users with invites. The “Blocked Invite” message you are seeing is actually a rate limit warning.
  
  Could you please confirm that your students can pause sending invites for 24 hours, which allows the system limits to reset? Thereafter, please request a new invite to be sent.

  Once that temporary block lifts, ask students to invite you in smaller batches (e.g., 5 per hour) rather than an entire class at once.

  Can you confirm for me that you were indeed successfully added to about 20 sites in the last week? If so, the temporary block will lift automatically with time.

  Please let us know if you have any questions!

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  patcorcaigh · Member · Dec 21, 2025 at 12:14 pm

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  Thank you for your response.

  Confirming lots of invites to act as an administrator from my students. I think >5 invites may have occurred during a few lab classes, triggering the ‘block’.

  The block remained and has not reset for many weeks now…I think that’s the main problem….does not auto reset etc. (Not sure if this is actually the case but a guess)

  Please remove the block. (Thank you).

  Normal for me to receive up to 50 invites between September and December, sometimes > 5 arrive together or within a short period of time, during a marketing lab.

  Going forward, I can request students to send the invites at different times. However, this may be difficult to manage in practice, as students set up accounts to engage with the platform and learn how to build a basic website outside of lab hours, as well etc.

  QUESTION: Does the ‘blocked invite’ reset automatically? Going forward if the problem re-occurs can I reset myself?

  Thank you very much for the support.

  Kind Regards,

  Pat