New blog – friends' access

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  sallymckenzieblog · Member · May 4, 2017 at 9:02 pm

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  How do other people access my new blog if they don’t have a WordPress account? Is there a way to email them a link or something?

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

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  timethief · Member · May 4, 2017 at 9:04 pm

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  Anyone with internet access can view your site by typing the URL http://sallymckenzieblog.wordpress.com/ into their upper browser bar and clicking.

  However, they will not get an email notice of the new posts being published unless they provide an email address when subscribing to the site.

  re: wordpress.com blog subscriptions

  All that’s required to follow any blog hosted by wordpress.COM is exactly what you were required to provide to register here, and that is a valid email address that the published posts can be sent to.

  Here subscribers control their own subscriptions and frequency of receipt of posts from sites they subscribe to. We cannot act on their behalf. More to the point is the fact that when email addresses are submitted for the purpose of receiving blog updates that is the only purpose they can be used for.

  You can set up email subscriptions here > Appearance > Widgets > Follow Blog Widget by using this guide > http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/follow-blog-widget/

  Widgets can be configured to appear only on certain pages (or be hidden on certain pages) by clicking on the Visibility button.
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/#widget-visibility

  We have a blog subscription shortcode which you can make use of. The help page on it is right here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/blog-subscription-shortcode/ You can also include the subscription shortcode at the end of every post you publish.

  The mailchimp and aweber pop-up subscription code provided by those source sites will not operate on WordPress.COM hosted sites. Staff have recently added the mailchimp widget for subscriptions and here is the link to the guide you must use https://en.support.wordpress.com/mailchimp

  Read more at https://en.support.wordpress.com/?s=following