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  mjeik · Member · Nov 8, 2015 at 9:53 pm

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  Hi, i have a few basic questions. Im writing a simple blog for friends and family about my biggest adventure in life (up till now) . The only thing i will be doing for now is write a journal, and i would like my followers to be notified that i ve written something.
  First off all, I off course need to invite my friends, i did so via email and the strange thing is that some will click in their mail for accepting the blog and thats it, they are accepted. Some however have to make a wordpress account. This takes it a lot of time and i dont understand why some need to make an account, while others not. They are discouraged to follow my blog…

  My second problem is that if i write a story, i really would like an email to be send to all my followers so they dont need to check my blog each day to see if i posted something. This way, they just need to ‘wait’ till they get an email saying i ve posted a new tekst, to which they can clik and end up in my blog. Is this possible and how?

  Also how does it come that i invite all people with the same method: invite followers, easy, but some end up as a ’email follower’ and some end up as ‘reader’
  Why is that?

  Thanks

  Miek

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

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  timethief · Member · Nov 11, 2015 at 4:10 am

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  My second problem is that if i write a story, i really would like an email to be send to all my followers so they dont need to check my blog each day to see if i posted something. This way, they just need to ‘wait’ till they get an email saying i ve posted a new tekst, to which they can clik and end up in my blog. Is this possible and how?

  Set up the follow blog widget https://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/follow-blog-widget/

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  timethief · Member · Nov 11, 2015 at 4:12 am

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  i dont understand why some need to make an account, while others not. They are discouraged to follow my blog…

  Some have wordpress.com accounts and some don’t.

  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.

  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-site

  The invitees will have to register a WordPress.COM username account which requires an email address only, but does 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.

  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.

  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.

  Lastly, there is a built-in spammer prevention so send out only 10 invitations at one point in time and then wait and manage those before sending out 10 more.