Permium Plan Question

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  dwitman18 · Member · Jan 5, 2015 at 6:18 pm

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  Hello. I am an educator, hoping to have my students utilize WordPress. The first step is to have them post on my blog, but I see that the regular plan limits users to 10. How many users can a Premium plan have?

  Thanks!

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

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  timethief · Member · Jan 5, 2015 at 6:21 pm

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  That’s not true. The 10 is a limit on the number of invitations one can send out at any point in time. It’s a spammer prevention measure.

  You can have either a public or a private 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. 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 here:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/ and here http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/

  They need to register username accounts but do not need to register blogs. They will need to click the “Accept Invitation” button in the invitation email. If they are logged into their WordPress.com account, they will be taken directly to your blog. If not, they will be taken to the log-in screen, where they can either log in or create a new user account.

  Note that users who 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.

  As I said at the outset the limit is 10 invitations at any point in time. It’s a spammer prevention limit. So simply wait and then send out 10 more.

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  dwitman18 · Member · Jan 5, 2015 at 6:32 pm

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  Oh, great! Thanks for your help! Much appreciative timethief!

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  timethief · Member · Jan 5, 2015 at 6:35 pm

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  You’re welcome. You may also want to check out edublogs. See: http://edublogs.com

  Edublogs lets you easily create & manage student & teacher blogs, quickly customize designs and include videos, photos & podcasts – it’s safe, easy and secure. The site runs on the same WordPress software we do here ie. wpMU (wordpress multiuser). However, the site is specifically set up for teachers and students. All edublogs are are advertising free, whereas our blogs here at WordPress.com are not ad-free, unless we buy an annually renewable Premium bundle upgrade.