Users invited to be viewers in private wordpress site and not part of wordpress
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Hello, I would like to invite readers to my private blog who have not opened a WordPress account. Is this possible? I just want them to be able to open a link to the website when I send it to them. Alternatively, I’d them to have something simple to sign up to. When they accept a user invitation I don’t want them to have – as is now – this WordPress page opening up calling for them to create a blog. But perhaps to just create a username and pw just for my blog. Possible? Many thanks!
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi there,
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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You’re welcome.They just need to select username account only please rather than registering a blog. :)
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