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  jackloftis1 · Member · Nov 11, 2014 at 12:46 am

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  i changed my blog from ‘public’ to ‘private’. i sent myself an invitation, and accepted it. but the next time i posted to the blog, i did NOT receive an email containing the post.

  when it was a public blog, i had no such problems.

  what have i failed to do?

  thank you,
  jack

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  futureswitch · Member · Nov 11, 2014 at 2:17 am

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  Hey, Jack.

  I may be misinterpreting the support document on the subject, but I believe that setting your blog to private means that no one will receive those posts. Your invited viewers can go to your site and view it, however.

  See: http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/

  Changing a Blog with Followers from Public To Private

  If you had your blog set to public, but you’d like to make it private instead, you can change the settings to private at any time by following the instructions in this support document. If you have followers on your blog, they will no longer be able to view your site by visiting it directly unless you invite them as a viewer. They will also no longer receive new content you publish in Reader; however, content that you published when your site was public might still be viewable.

  Cheers,
  -Brian

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  jackloftis1 · Member · Nov 11, 2014 at 8:20 pm

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  But my understanding was that if I issued “invitations to view” that then they would receive emails of the posts. (But maybe they can only see them by visiting the site. Bummer.)

  Thanks for the response.
  jack