private blog site for testing

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    test74778 · Member ·

    I moderate a high school writing club and would like to limit the people who can read the website to the students in the writing club. How is that accomplished? After the students are happy with the content, can we limit readers to people in the school? They have their own .com address.

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

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    torres126 · Member ·

    Hey there! You’ve got two options:

    Firstly, you can block search engines from viewing it.
    Secondly, you can make it so that you need to invite users for them to read your blog. They will need a WordPress.com account for this.

    For both these options, go to test74778.wordpress.com/wp-admin

    Hover over “settings” (at the bottom on the left) then click “reading”. Scroll down a bit to “site visibility” and take your pick!

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    timethief · Member ·

    @test74778

    One can have either a public or a private WordPress.COM hosted blog and there is no limitation on the total number of contributors to any blog.
    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

    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.

    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

    The invitees will have to register a WordPress.COM username account which requires an email address only, but does 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.

    Username accounts are required but registering blogs under them is not required. 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

    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.

    Note that invitees who do create a new WordPress.com account at that point will still need to log into wordpress.com, return to the invitation email and click the “Accept Invitation” button after doing so.

    Lastly, there is a built-in spammer prevention so send out only 10 invitations at one point in time and then wait and manage those before sending out 10 more.

    See here:
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/ and here http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/

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