privacy and access

  • Unknown's avatar
    msjonathan · Member ·

    I’ve done something weird and hopefully reversible. I have a new read-only BLOG. I am the only writer. No outside comments. I sent the URL for the BLOG to my group of 60 readers (not signed up for the BLOG – just an external group) and accidentally gave them all administrator status!!

    How can I just send them a link to the BLOG without giving them writer or admin status. I’d like them to read and have access to updates via the URL link. Do they all have sign up to WP? Is there a direct access that limits them to reading without having to sign in?

    Hoping you can help with this.
    Thank-you .
    Kate

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

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    houstonweaver · Member ·

    How did you give them admin access?

    If you followed the process here (https://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/) and invited them to be administrators of your site – as they accept your invitation, you will have to either change their user role or remove them.

    See how to do that here:
    https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#changing-user-roles

    The role you want them to have is Viewer.
    My understanding is that even as Viewer they will need to be signed in via WordPress.com

    You will use that same process in inviting anyone to be a viewer, you will just choose that as their user role instead of administrator.

    It seems as though you will just have to be vigilant in checking that People list and changing them from administrator to viewer as they respond.

    I am going to tag this as Modlook to see if a staff person has any better ideas.

    Let us hear from you as to whether this is how you originally notified your list of people.

  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    Hi there,

    Is this for the site, http://msjonathan.wordpress.com/?

    Your username is the only user on that site. There are no other users, be they admin or any other user role.

    I checked all the other sites in your account as well, and none of them have more than one admin.

    If you can please confirm the URL of the site I can check if there are any pending invitations for admins.

  • Unknown's avatar
    msjonathan · Member ·

    Hello Happiness Engineer,

    URL is http://www.comm1003cyc.wordpress.com.

    I did not invite anyone through the usual WP channels. In the past, I had students sign up and register as contributors because I wanted them to write and respond to others’ writing. This time I’d like them to be just readers.

    So, I linked the site via URL to another online site at our school – BLackboard. My thinking was they could simply click on the link and enter the WP blog. Which is how it worked. But when I look at what they can see, I notice that they can edit or write and do all the Admin activities.

    I’m guessing that there is no short cut and I need to make the BLOG private and have them sign up as viewers only. Which is a long process for 60 people. Or is there another way?

    Thanks for your help!

  • Unknown's avatar
    msjonathan · Member ·

    Thank you Houstonweaver.

    I linked the site URL to another online forum – Blackboard. That seems to allow them all the admin activities to the wordpress site. URL = http://www.comm1003.wordperss.com. Unintended.

  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    That site also don’t have any other users besides you.

    It’s not possible to give people access to a WordPress.com site through another service, so I’m not sure what you mean. Are you referring to Blackboard.com? That service has no connection at all with WordPress.com, and while you can add your site’s RSS feed to that service so that your blog posts appear there, there is literally no way you can add users to your site via that service. It’s impossible. The only way to add users to a WordPress.com site is to invite them from My Sites ->People, and I see no evidence that you have done that.

    But when I look at what they can see, I notice that they can edit or write and do all the Admin activities.

    Do you mean the Edit link that appear on posts and pages? That is only visible to site admins and editors, so you can see that, but no one else who visits your site can see that. If you want to see what your site looks like to non-contributors you need to log out of your account completely, or view it in an incognito window in Chrome.

  • Unknown's avatar
    msjonathan · Member ·

    Thank you Kokkieh. I will try to do what you’ve suggested. I appreciate the time you’ve taken with this.

  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    My pleasure. Please let me know if you need any more help with this.

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