Private site viewers

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  reothadh · Member · Feb 17, 2020 at 10:19 pm

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  Do viewers of private sites have to have a wordpress account?

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  kokkieh · Staff · Feb 18, 2020 at 7:18 am

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  Hi there,

  To be a viewer on a private site requires a WordPress.com username account, yes. Because we don’t use site-specific login credentials on WordPress.com, having someone log into a WordPress.com username account is the only way we have to verify that someone is allowed to have access to your private site.

  https://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/#viewing-a-private-site

  If you want to invite people to your site who don’t have accounts yet, they can use this link to register a username without creating their own WordPress.com site:

  https://wordpress.com/start/account/user/