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  ellykate80 · Member · Jan 14, 2022 at 1:23 am

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  Hi there, I have set my site to private but I want to send my friends to view my private posts, but when i go to ‘add group’ on the post it says i need to have a ‘private page’, but my page is already private!

  WP.com: Yes
  Correct account: Yes

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

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  kokkieh · Staff · Jan 14, 2022 at 4:50 am

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  Hi there,

  Are you speaking of https://ellykate80.wordpress.com/? That site isn’t private. It’s just not launched yet.

  If you want to make that a private site, go to Settings ->General and launch it first. After you launch it, you’ll have the option to set it to private, and once you’ve done that, you’ll be able to invite people in the Viewer role under Users ->Add New.

  https://wordpress.com/en/support/settings/privacy-settings/

  https://wordpress.com/support/user-roles/#viewer

  Keep in mind that for someone to become a viewer on a private site, they’ll need to create their own WordPress.com username account.