My recipient list can't access my blog.

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  chrispearson2 · Member · Oct 3, 2015 at 9:00 pm

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  I have created a blog and asked for it to be private to the list I give the link to. Those recipients are telling me they can’t access the blog without my username and password. If I give them, does that mean others can then edit my posts? Surely not. Is there something I’ve missed?

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

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  micawbr · Member · Oct 4, 2015 at 12:05 pm

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  Do not give out your username and password. Have you invited those other people to view your blog following this guide: https://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/#invite-people-to-view-your-private-blog

  Also, if a user tries to visit a private blog (and you haven’t set them up as a viewer), they can click the “request access” button. You should receive a notification that they want access. They would see a “Thank you. The site owner has been notified of your request.” message. At that point you could add them as a viewer. I just tested clicking that access link on your blog so you’ll see a request from “micawbr” (which you can ignore :-).

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  chrispearson2 · Member · Oct 5, 2015 at 2:10 pm

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  Thanks so much, that’s extremely helpful – all sorted now.

  Chris Pearson