Privacy – Add user: user access

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  grumpylibrarian · Member · Dec 27, 2007 at 2:53 am

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  I’m new to wordpress. I have added about 10 friends using the Privacy – Add user option. FAQs say at Note 1 “There is no ‘password'”. I just logged out & tried to access the blog as one of these friends but it asked for a login that isn’t mine… do I assign them a login/password? How?
  I just want my friends to read and post comments to my blog, that’s all.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Dec 27, 2007 at 3:05 am

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  You’re friends will have to sign up for a wordpress username they do not have to get a blog, just a username. Once you have their usernames then you can set them up in privacy > add user.

  The rest of Note 1 says:

  A non-wordpress.com user will see a screen saying:
  This blog is protected, to view it you must log in.
  If you don’t have a WordPress.com account, you can get one in seconds.

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  jendesign · Member · Jan 18, 2008 at 4:14 pm

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  Will the friends then be able to post comments to my blog?

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  raincoaster · Member · Jan 19, 2008 at 1:15 am

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  Yes, if you have set it to allow comments.