teacher/private blog for parents

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  wahlmeier3rdgrade · Member · Aug 17, 2012 at 2:44 am

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  I am a teacher and trying to add parents just to view my blog. I don’t want them to have to sign up to work press to see it since it is private. Is this going to work?
  Blog url: http://wahlmeier3rdgrade.wordpress.com/

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

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Aug 17, 2012 at 3:26 am

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  No, in order for folks you invite to view your private site on WordPress.com there is a need to keep track of who they are.

  They are identified via the email address they use to sign up for a wp account.

  They do not need to have a blog: they do need to establish an email address (in the form of a wp.com account) so they can be identified.

  This is not so different from amazon accounts or facebook private groups or Flickr private groups or Google+ private circles or any other such sites which require a login in order to participate in a private area.

  You could set up a blog that is not open to search engines for parents (or others) to view information you want to publish publicly.

  Privacy settings:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/
  the middle option:

  Ask search engines not to index this site. – If you want all human visitors to be able to read your blog, but want to block web crawlers for search engines, this is the setting for you.