Site visitors
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How can I get my site visitors IP address? I have someone who is email stalking me, and I may find out some insights if I know who the visitors to my blog are. The emailer is using information from my blog in the emails, so they are clearly going to my site.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Provided your viewers submit comments the IP address is revealed. Otherwise unless you have a court order it will not be provided. More to the point is the fact that only about 30% of all IP addresses will track back to a single computer. For over a decade ISPs have been placing hundreds of us in the same IP blocks. https://en.support.wordpress.com/private-information/
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I forgot to add that many of us have dynamic ie. ever changing IP addresses. And I fogot to clearly state that if this truly is a case of criminal stalking and you do fear for your safety then you need to contact the police.
Your blog subscribers including Publicize followers are found here https://wordpress.com/my-stats/?blog_subscribers
https://wordpress.com/my-stats/?blog_subscribersYour email only subscribers are at https://wordpress.com/my-stats/?blog_subscribers&type=email
We cannot block or delete subscribers from public blogs. Anyone and everyone can access public blogs and that’s indeed what the public designation means. However, please read this about public blogs that become private blogs > Blog Privacy and Subscribers > http://wpcommaven.wordpress.com/2011/09/05/blog-privacy-and-subscribers/
To change blog visibility to Private go to Dashboard > Settings > Reading scroll to Site Visibility and choose option 3
http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/You don’t need an upgrade of any kind at all to invite multiple people to contribute to a private blog. See:
adding users http://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/
user roles http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/
Note that you have complete control over everything that’s posted to your blog via comment moderation
http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/#comment-moderationFor trolls, you can “blacklist” them at Settings > Discussion toward the bottom of that page. Enter their email address, their username, and if they included it, their website URL. That will automatically send them to moderation so that their comments do not appear on the blog. Do note though that if they are determined, they can use a different email address or username to get around that.
Also, do not put their IP address in the blacklist. As I already explained above IP addresses are no longer unique, and you might end up blocking legitimate visitors. In fact for over a decade only about 30% of us have IPs that trace back to any individual computer. Also, all they would have to do is go to a wi-fi hot spot, or connect via a different ISP and they could get around that.
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