Visibility, Privacy, and Login – So Confused

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  marissaadamforever · Member · Oct 1, 2014 at 5:07 pm

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  I have a few questions to ask, but first let me say I have a few things I WANT to have happen.

  1) I want my wordpress site, marissaadamforever.wordpress.com, to be visible only to those attending my wedding.
  2) I can provide my guests with a password.

  At the moment, when I go to my site, I have to login using my wordpress login info (username and password). This logs me in as an Administrator.

  Question 1: Will all my guests have to have a wordpress login or can I just give them my site’s name and they simply enter the password?

  Question 2: How can I see my wordpress site as my guests would see it? As of now, I can only see it as an Admin (I see the “edit” features and all other editing features).

  Thank you in advance for your help!

  Marissa

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

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  honeysilvas · Member · Oct 4, 2014 at 1:54 am

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  Hi, Marissa!

  Question 1: Will all my guests have to have a wordpress login or can I just give them my site’s name and they simply enter the password?

  There are 2 ways to do this. You probably want the 2nd option:

  1) If you set your whole blog to private, your guest would need to create a WordPress.com account or log in using their WordPress.com account.
  Here’s how to set your whole blog to private:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/
  and here’s how to invite guests to view your blog.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/#viewing-a-private-blog

  2) If you don’t want your guests to have to create an account and log in,
  you can just password-protect posts and pages.
  Here’s how to do that.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-visibility/#password-protect-a-post
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/page-visibility/#private-blog

  Question 2: How can I see my wordpress site as my guests would see it? As of now, I can only see it as an Admin (I see the “edit” features and all other editing features).

  If you log out of your account, you will see it as they see it.

  You can also just use a different browser where you are not logged in.

  Hope that helps!