Private or Password?
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I want my health monitor blog to be accessible to one other person. Right now it is set to “Private.”
If I give that person the URL of the Home Page of my private blog, will he see it? Or will he see a message saying something like, “This blog is private. So sorry.”
Is it better to give him the URL to my blog home page or to make a password and turn it into a password blog?
He will be the only person other than I to see it.
-Pere.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi. Does timethief’s answer to your other forum topic answer all your questions?
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/private-setting-does-it-eliminate-need-to-id-each-post-as-private?replies=4 -
Hi AirOdyssey! Yes, TimeThief did answer my question about not having to set each post as Private if I have already set the entire blog as Private.
The issue about the three Featured or Sticky Notes at the Bottom of the blog is still not answered, though. So I guess I will either just forget about it or I will wait for the Support staff to come on Monday so I can send them the technical question about my Skeptical theme.
Thank you for asking. Why? Did you have an answer to something??? :-)
-Pere
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The issue about the three Featured or Sticky Notes at the Bottom of the blog is still not answered, though.
Panos posted 6 minutes ago to one of your two other threads. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-to-stop-featured-posts-from-showing-up?replies=18#post-722075
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If you’ve simply set your blog to private, a visitor will see this message:
http://……..wordpress.com/ is marked private by its owner. If you were invited to view this site, please log in below.
If you want that other person to be able to see the blog, he must have a wordpress.com account and you must add him as a user in Settings>Privacy.
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Oh! I cannot tell my doctor to get a WordPress account just for reading my health monitor, though. I guess I will just have to print out the blog posts and take them in when I see him.
I thought that a password was all that was required.
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He doesn’t have to do it himself: you can create a new account yourself and give him the username and the account password.
Easier alternative: don’t create an account for him, select the middle instead of the third option in Settings>Privacy, and make all your posts password-protected (with one password for all of them). Then he won’t have to be a logged-in wp.com user to see the blog. At first he’ll see this instead of each post:
“This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below”
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Panos, is this system of doing it piecemeal post by post just as bullet-proof / fail proof as the other way of making the whole blog private?
If so, then I will consider doing it.
Right now I am almost resigned to printing out my blog posts and just giving them to my doctor when I see him.
-Pere
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Panos, you wrote:
He doesn’t have to do it himself: you can create a new account yourself and give him the username and the account password.
How do I do this?
I am envisioning that other way you suggested: That my doctor would type in a password for each blog. But that means he would not have the ability to just sweep his eyes over the blog quickly. A password for each post makes extra work for him.
So I guess I need to be directed to a place which will explain how I make an account for my doctor.
-Pere
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To create a new account you log out and visit this page:
https://en.wordpress.com/signup/
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Panos I went to that link and want to make very sure before I do what it ways.
First, why do I have to make a new account? The Health Monitor blog was made out of an existing blog of mine. (I have made several for various topics.)
So, are you saying that for a blog that already exists and already has an email address and already has a URL, I must make another blog?
Would that blog be for anyone to whom I give a password?
I am very lost and feel like an idiot, Panos, but I am not at all seeing how this works. 8-(-Peregrine who made bad marks
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Panos, would I make the new blog with the same URL so that my doctor will see the same blog I am working on?
But that account that has the URL for my existing Health Monitor blog, that account will have HIS username and and HIS account password? So he would log onto the URL of my Health Monitor blog and type in his userrname and password?
I just thought of something. If I want to make that blog viewable by someone else, say, like my best friend, would I then just give her the same username and same password?
_Peregrine
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OK, I found this WordPress page: http://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/
This would be to add someone who can view my private blog but not edit it.
Am I on the right track?
-Pere
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I should have added: The heading on that site above http://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/
says: To add a user to your private blog. They do not have a WordPress blog.
-Pere
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“why do I have to make a new account?”
That’s what you asked for. You said you wanted him to be able to view the whole (private) blog instead of having to type a password for each post. So he has to be a wp.com user. And you said you cannot tell him to get a wp.com account just for reading your blog. So you have to create his account for him.
“I must make another blog?”
I never said that. I said log out and visit this page:
https://en.wordpress.com/signup/
You probably didn’t log out before visiting it. If you log out, the page will include the option “Sign up for just a username”.“If I want to make that blog viewable by someone else, say, like my best friend, would I then just give her the same username and same password?”
You mean your own username and password? Then the blog will be viewable alright. But it will be messable and deletable as well, because your best friend will also have full access to your dashboard. Same for the rest of the blogs you have under the same account. Personally, I wouldn’t give the password to my wp.com account to anyone.
As for the Support doc you linked to:
a) The section on how to “add someone who does NOT yet have a WordPress.com account” explains how to invite them “to sign up for a WordPress.com account” themselves. Back to square 1: you said you don’t want that.
b) “User” in that case isn’t the same as “user” in Settings>Privacy. Second type of user can only view the private blog, first type of user has partial access to its dashboard.
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