Privacy Settings for Club Website
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I am trying to figure out if there is a feature that exists to create a basic site to the general public about our club. What I mean by this is anyone in the general public can view a portion of our site and not the full site, since we are a club site, club members should be the only ones to have access to all of the content on our site by logging in with their usernames and passwords. Is there a way we can make this functionality possible on our site using word press?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hello
You can protect pages on your site by making the individual pages password protected or private. You can learn more about that here:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/page-visibility/dave
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You cannot issue username accounts and issue passwords for any site hosted by wordpress.COM, regardless of upgrades.
What I post below applies only to sites hosted by wordpress.COM.
You cannot password protect a whole wordpress.COM site. You can password protect posts https://en.support.wordpress.com/post-visibility/ and/ or pages https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/page-visibility/ on a site.
You can have either a public or a private WordPress.COM hosted blog See the guide here http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings.
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.
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-site
http://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/
https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#changing-user-rolesUsername 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.
Note:
The number 10 is the number of outstanding invitations you can have at any point in time. That limitation is a spammer prevention measure. Wait until the invitees have registered and send out 10 more.If you want to add username accounts and passwords you have to hire a web host and move to a wordpress.ORG software install. Moving to self hosted wordpress: http://move.wordpress.com
You need to hire a web host and then set up your own wordpress.ORG software install to be able to hand out username registrations. Please see Moving to Self-Hosted WordPress https://move.wordpress.com
WordPress.COM and WordPress.ORG are completely separate and have different username accounts, logins, features, run different versions of some themes with the same names, and have separate support documentation and separate support forums. Read the differences here http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
WordPress.ORG support is at http://wordpress.org/support/ If you don’t have a username account at WordPress.ORG account, then click http://wordpress.org/support/ and register one on the top right-hand corner of the page that opens, https://wordpress.org/support/register.php so you can post to the support forums there.
Resetting your WordPress.ORG password http://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_Password
WordPress.org support docs are at https://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
See also https://apps.wordpress.org/support/
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