why do people that want to follow my blog, but don't have a wordpress account, have to login to
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i don’t want people accepting my invite to my (private) blog, having to go through the hastle to have to login to wordpress. i just want to write my blog and each time i ve written something, my followers get an email. i also don’t want any body else to follow my blog than the people i know.
it is utterly frustrating that this doesn’t work; people should not be forced to have a login to worpress to follow my adventure. can someone please help me?!The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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i don’t want people accepting my invite to my (private) blog, having to go through the hastle to have to login to wordpress.
Well that’s simply not available to them because if they do not have accounts there is no way for the software to tell if they are bona fide users you actually added to the blog or just hackers. Think about that please.
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You can have either a public or a private WordPress.COM hosted 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. Contributors cannot upload images. 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
Then see:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/
https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#adding-users-to-your-site
https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#adding-viewers-to-a-private-siteThe invitees will have to register a WordPress.COM username account which requires an email address only, 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.
Username accounts are required but registering blogs under them is not required.
If the person being invited to contribute to your blog does not already have one, he or she will have to register a WordPress.COM username account. Note that he or she does not need to register a blog. There is a just a username please option. The invitees who lack username accounts select the “username only” option here: https://signup.wordpress.com/signup/?user=1
NOTE that as you have an account you would have to log out and clear your browser cache https://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/#clearing-your-browser-cache and cookies https://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/#clearing-wordpress-com-cookies to witness the process as the invitees without accounts would experience it.
Upon receipt of the invitation the invitee will need to click the “Accept Invitation” button in the invitation email. If the invitee is logged into their WordPress.com username account, he or she will be taken directly to your blog. If not, he or she will be taken to the log-in screen, where he or she can either log in, or can register a new WordPress.COM user account.
Note that invitees who do 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.
Note that invitees who do 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.
See here:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/ and here http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/ -
hello, i am still having troubles!!! it doesn’t make any sense; my mother who is following my first blog can easily acces it, but cannot accept my invitation for the second blog. she has to sign in. if we try to sign in it doesn’t work and if we ask for a recovery of the email wordpress does not seem to recognise her email?! you have said before that before accepting to follow a blog everybody needs to create an account.. how is it possible she can follow one blog and her email doesn’t even exist in wordpress??? i am soon lost
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Please provide the URL of this second blog and the username account your registered it under. Also provide the username account for your mother so Staff can sort this for you.
Next type modlook into the sidebar tags on this thread for Staff help. How do I get a Moderator/Staff reply for my question? https://en.support.wordpress.com/getting-help-in-the-forums/#how-do-i-get-a-moderatorstaff-reply-for-my-question Then please subscribe to this thread so you are notified when they respond. To subscribe look in the sidebar of this thread, find the subscribe to topics link and click it.
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Hello, somehow afters hours if trying something fixed it. we got no clue what or how, but when it happens againin the future i will do the above.
Thank you
Miek
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