private users unable to view blog

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  fcolaw · Member · Oct 16, 2012 at 9:04 am

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  I have a private blog; I’ve invited users who have signed up as requested but are unable to see anything – it appears to them that the blog is ’empty’ or others have said ‘archive not found’. Can you help?
  Blog url: http://fromcourttokenya.wordpress.com/

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

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  hnsaifi · Member · Oct 16, 2012 at 9:08 am

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  How can one tell you what happened to your blog without actually seeing it? :)

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  fcolaw · Member · Oct 16, 2012 at 3:59 pm

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  I think my question is pretty clear. The point is that that they can’t see it. They go to the blog and it appears as empty. Can anyone help? Thank you.

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  timethief · Member · Oct 16, 2012 at 4:26 pm

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  As hnsaifi has stated we Volunteers cannot view the blog so we cannot experience whatever your visitors are experiencing, or assist you in any way. This thread is flagged for Staff attention.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Oct 16, 2012 at 8:24 pm

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  I only see 6 invited users at Settings -> Reading in your Dashboard.

  Do they all see a blank page at http://fromcourttokenya.wordpress.com/ ?

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  fcolaw · Member · Oct 17, 2012 at 3:13 am

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  Hello macmanx, that’s correct, here is the message they see:
  ‘Not found
  Apologies but no results were found for the requested archives. Perhaps searching will help find a related post’.
  They can see my header which is a sunset but that’s it.

  Thanks.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Oct 17, 2012 at 6:50 pm

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  Oh, I see the problem here.

  You have made your entire blog Private, but you have also made each post Private, which means that they’re only viewable by you.

  It’s save to leave the whole blog private (via Settings -> Reading) and leave each post as public. Only users with access to the private blog will see the public posts.