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  luckylisette · Member · Apr 20, 2015 at 3:32 am

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  I would like to allow other people to post an image and caption to my blog (provided I can check it first), but I’m afraid I can’t see how I can do this. How do I go about this?

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

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  geekinthegirl · Member · Apr 20, 2015 at 8:10 am

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  Hi there,

  If you’d like to add contributors and give them rights to post on your blog, take a look at this topic – it offers details on the process: https://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/

  Hope that helps!

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  luckylisette · Member · Apr 20, 2015 at 8:00 pm

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  Thanks for the reply. I’d like to allow anyone who sees the blog to submit a contribution, rather than me inviting them first. Is this possible?

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  luckylisette · Member · Apr 20, 2015 at 8:01 pm

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  Thanks for the reply. I’d like to allow anyone who sees the blog to submit a contribution, rather than me inviting them first. Is this possible?

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  timethief · Member · Apr 20, 2015 at 8:17 pm

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  Hi there,

  I’d like to allow anyone who sees the blog to submit a contribution, rather than me inviting them first. Is this possible?

  Blogs are not wikis or forums. There is no means of allowing visitors who are not official users of the blog to publish posts on your blog.

  You can have either a public or a private blog and there is no limitation on the total number of contributors to any blog. If you’d like to invite others to publish posts or help approve comments on your blog, you can invite them to be a Contributor, Editor, or Author. If you want users to receive updates each time you publish new content you can invite them to be a follower/viewer.

  To change blog visibility to Private go to > Settings > Reading scroll to Blog Visibility and choose option 3. See the guide here http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings

  See here please:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/ and here http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/

  The person will have to register a username account but does not need to register a blog. That requirement is because the software has to be able to differentiate between hackers and official users and allow access only to those with username accounts and official roles on the blog.

  They will need to click the “Accept Invitation” button in the invitation email. If they are logged into their WordPress.com account, they will be taken directly to your blog. If not, they will be taken to the log-in screen, where they can either log in or create a new user account.

  Note that users who create a new WordPress.com account at that point will still need to return to the invitation email and click the “Accept Invitation” button after doing so.

  Lastly, there is a built-in spammer prevention so send out only 10 invitations at one point in time and then wait and manage those before sending out 10 more.

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  raincoaster · Member · Apr 20, 2015 at 9:01 pm

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  Basically, to do what you want you’re looking at ten thousand dollars to set up and maintain the website, using WordPress.org or some other software. ICanHasCheezburger pays over $30,000 a year for hosting with WordPress.com VIP.