Visitors to my site cannot use "like" button unless they login to WP. Why?

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  1handcan · Member · Mar 17, 2013 at 11:12 pm

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  Several different visitors to my site are telling me when they click the “like” button they are taken to the wordpress login page. If they do not have a wordpress account and do not wish to register how can they like my page?

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

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  timethief · Member · Mar 17, 2013 at 11:32 pm

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  Why can only Facebook members use their “like” button?

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  timethief · Member · Mar 17, 2013 at 11:34 pm

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  The WordPress.com like button, like every other in-house use only like button (example: Facebook) can only be used by those who have registered WordPress.com username accounts when they are logged in to WordPress.com.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/likes/

  Likes are not page views. In fact, likes and shares are misleading when you are talking about page view stats. Your followers and anyone with a WordPress.com blog who is logged into WordPress.com can “like” and “share” your posts in several locations such as the Reader without ever clicking into your blog and creating a page view stat. See here for what I do to compel readers to read posts on my site > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/07/09/wordpress-followers-likes-and-stats