People need a WordPress account to access my WordPress.com site. Why?

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  southamptonlifeteam · Member · Mar 9, 2016 at 11:21 am

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  Hi
  I would like anyne to be able to view my published WordPress.com blogs. However it seems that they need a WordPress.com account to do this. Is this right?
  thanks

  The blog in question is located here
  https://southamptonlifeteam.wordpress.com/

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

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  staff-doublebassd · Staff · Mar 11, 2016 at 5:23 pm

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  Hi there,

  Viewers will not need a WordPress.com account to view your site unless it is private. When a site is private, there need to be credentials used to gain access to the site. WordPress.com account e-mail and password are used for those credentials.

  Are you saying that no one can view your site while it is public?

  Let me know, thanks!

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  southamptonlifeteam · Member · Mar 11, 2016 at 5:37 pm

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  Hi
  Thanks for your reply

  I think the problem is that I am putting a link to a blog on the website. Actually what I am trying to do is when someone clicks on to a menu item it takes them to all my blogs. If i do this it asks forthe person to sign in.

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  staff-doublebassd · Staff · Mar 11, 2016 at 6:13 pm

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  Hi there,

  What link are you providing them? It sounds like you’re giving them a link to an internal WordPress menu of yours that needs WordPress.com login credentials to access.

  The best way to have people view your blog is to have them follow you:

  https://en.support.wordpress.com/following/