Oops, your invite is not valid
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I am trying to invite people to my blog: vcdhochrhein.wordpress.com
First time it worked but now i always get the message:’Oops, your invite is not valid’
after pressing the accept button in the email.
I tried this with several email addresses! -
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Same problem with http://www.crestviewchurch.org, hosted on wordpress.com
I send an invite, and when the user clicks on the link, they see the message:
Oops, your invite is not validWe weren’t able to verify that invitation.
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When we need Staff help with issues Volunteers cannot resolve like this one we type modlook into the sidebar tags on our forum threads. I did that for you.
How do I get a Moderator/Staff reply for my question? https://en.support.wordpress.com/getting-help-in-the-forums/#how-do-i-get-a-moderatorstaff-reply-for-my-question Then we subscribe to this thread so we are notified when they respond. To subscribe look in the sidebar of this thread, find the subscribe to topics link and click it.
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I’m going to post the full process below.
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-siteUsername accounts are required but registering blogs under them is not required. The invitees will have to register a WordPress.COM username account which requires an email address only, but they do 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.
If the person being invited to contribute to your blog does not already have one, he or she will have to register a WordPress.COM username account. He or she does not need to register a blog. There is a just a username please option. The invitees who lack username accounts select the “username only” option here: https://signup.wordpress.com/signup/?user=1
NOTE that as you have an account you would have to log out and clear your browser cache https://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/#clearing-your-browser-cache and cookies https://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/#clearing-wordpress-com-cookies to witness the process as the invitees without accounts would experience it.
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.
The invitees need to be logged into their WordPress.com account prior to clicking the “Accept Invitation” link.
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.
See here:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/ and here http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/
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Hey there everyone,
We did have a brief glitch with invites, but it is fixed now.
If you resend the invite, it should now go through successfully.
Try it again and let me know if you have any issues.Thanks!
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If the user I am trying to invite doesn’t have a WordPress account, can I set them up with one in advance?
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When you invite the user, they’ll receive an e-mail with instructions on how to create an account before contributing to your blog.
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Maybe I misunderstood Timethief’s excellent long post, above. Will someone to whom I send an invitation need to have a WordPress account if they only have “Viewer” permission?
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So, in order to have someone just look at my private blog, they have to open an account? Is there any way at all to avoid that?
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I do not see how the answer is related to the question. I have the same issue. Create a blog which I put in private mode as under construction and want to invite a few to help to structure and edit it. I tried, “viewer” or “contributor and the answer is always “Oops, you invite is not valid…” even sending the invite to me (and being logged to wordpress, it send the same message. Please help.
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So, in order to have someone just look at my private blog, they have to open an account? Is there any way at all to avoid that?
Yes, they need an e-mail/username and password in order to log in. WordPress recognizes people by their email address. The email address is the only personal information he needs to provide in order to set up his account.
For more information and steps on how to set up a user to view a private blog, please visit our support page:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/#invite-people-to-view-your-private-blog
Thanks!
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Thanks, I read the paper and this is not what happens (sent directly to the blog of to the subscription page). The link is just “broken” and says the invite is not valid. As being logged in WP, sending the invite to me should connect me to the page which it did not.
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I do not see how the answer is related to the question. I have the same issue. Create a blog which I put in private mode as under construction and want to invite a few to help to structure and edit it. I tried, “viewer” or “contributor and the answer is always “Oops, you invite is not valid…” even sending the invite to me (and being logged to wordpress, it send the same message. Please help.
Have you attempted canceling your intial invite and resending it? It has helped other users who were having similar troubles. Let me know.
Thanks!
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Yes, I try to resend, deleted and reinvade with different addresses that I have to test. Same outcome
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I don’t want the people I am inviting to see my site to have to set up WP accounts. Therefore I changed the privacy settings to not have search engines find the site. I can’t imagine that this will keep it quiet, but there you are . . .
I suspect all this works just fine in WordPress.org, and there’s no such thing as a free lunch.
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I’m still having the same problem. I can’t invite new users to be editors for crestviewchurch.org
Also, when I try to change the email address for an existing account, I see the message:
“There was a problem saving your changes.”This error message is NOT very helpful in diagnosing the problem!
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I’m still having the same problem. I can’t invite new users to be editors for crestviewchurch.org
Also, when I try to change the email address for an existing account, I see the message:
“There was a problem saving your changes.”This error message is NOT very helpful in diagnosing the problem!
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