why does a viewer have to have a WordPress blog too

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  jallegro2014 · Member · Aug 19, 2014 at 3:59 am

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  I don’t want my blog to be completely public but my friends and family don’t have or want to have blogs. How can they access my blog?

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

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Aug 19, 2014 at 4:32 am

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  For a private blog readers have to have a WordPress.com account otherwise the system cannot tell if they are “allowed” viewers or not.

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  jallegro2014 · Member · Aug 19, 2014 at 4:41 am

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  Thank you for this input. I can understand that a person has to register, but I don’t understand why they have to set up a blog. Why can’t they just register as a follower?

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  auxclass · Member · Aug 19, 2014 at 5:11 am

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  they don’t need to set up a blog – but the set up a blog option might be a bit in their face – at any rate – they can skip the blog thing – but a blog will be reserved for their account name,

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  lubmir2k · Member · Aug 19, 2014 at 6:09 am

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  jallegro2014, personally I wouldn’t bother, but when they really need to, there is an option to erase the blog but keep the wordpress.com account.

  Read here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/delete-site/, section Permanently deleting your site.

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Aug 19, 2014 at 5:20 pm

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  The two posts above have given you the same advice I would have.