Privacy/Password Clarification

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  ghanagirl1 · Member · Sep 22, 2007 at 6:47 pm

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  I’ve been through the FAQ’s and around the site and just paid for an upgrade I now think I don’t need. Help. I’m still confused about the following: How can I allow visitors (not bloggers) whose email address I have to access my blogsite, while prohibiting others (whose addresses I don’t have from accessing it?
  Thank you! Grace

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  timethief · Member · Sep 22, 2007 at 7:04 pm

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  You can have a private blog with up to 35 members.
  Dashboard -> Options -> Privacy
  The last option is I would like my blog to be visible only to users I choose
  Check that button
  Click Update

  Do these help?
  http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/05/17/how-do-i-add-more-authors-users-to-my-blog/
  http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/05/07/can-i-password-protect-my-whole-blog/

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  ghanagirl1 · Member · Sep 25, 2007 at 2:53 pm

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  Thanks so much for responding timethief. Yes they helped and I had gone over them. However when I try to add a user one by one (which is time-consuming!) by entering their individual email addresses, it tells me that the user is not found. This makes sense since the users don’t have blogs with wordpress, but before I spend time putting my 70 something addresses in, I want to be sure that I’m doing the right thing. I already paid for the upgrade.

  I just tried to contact support and they’re temporarily closed. Am working in a third world country and don’t have much internet access.

  Thanks for any other assistance!

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  judyb12 · Member · Sep 25, 2007 at 3:52 pm

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  your users have to have wordpress.com usernames in order to access your private blog.

  If you are making them contributors/authors/admins then you enter whatever email address they used to create their wordpress.com account at Dashboard->Users->Authors & Users->Add User From Community.

  If you are just allowing them to see the blog and comment on it, you need to enter their usernames at Dashboard->Options->Privacy->Username.

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  hotsnot · Member · Nov 8, 2007 at 2:50 pm

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  Hi,

  Anyone know when / if the new privacy option (limiting access to known users) will be added to the open source version of WordPress ?

  -d.

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  timethief · Member · Nov 8, 2007 at 3:32 pm

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  Volunteers have no answers for you. You need to contact staff weekdays 9-5 PM http://wordpress.com/contact-support/