Posted: Thursday, May 18th, 2006 at 5:47 pm. Filed in Community, Features, WordPress.com.
Get an account sans-blog
We've now updated our signup for new users so that you can get a WordPress.com account without a blog being created. People have been requesting this quite a bit. This could be useful for a couple of reasons:
- If you wanted to leave comments on blogs that require sign-in
- If you read a blog that uses our not-yet-released members-only feature (hint)
- If you are a writer on an existing blog, but don't want a blog of your own
- If you just want an API key
I personally think multi-author blogs will benefit most from this. If you get a regular account sans blog and decide you want a blog later, don't worry we'll hold your sub-domain for you.
This is part of how a WordPress.com membership is evolving to be for more than just a blog, which is something we didn't quite anticipate but is a pretty fun development nonetheless.
May 18th, 2006 at 5:54 pm
Sweet! I was one of the requesters (requestees?) and appreciate you guys listening. My request stemmed from a need for students to be able to add content to a classroom or teacher’s blog. Very cool.
http://remc11.wordpress.com/
May 18th, 2006 at 6:03 pm
Great Idea, maybe im starting a multi author blog now
May 18th, 2006 at 6:13 pm
Very cool. It will be convenient for guest writers.
May 18th, 2006 at 6:19 pm
Yeah!
May 18th, 2006 at 6:28 pm
I could have done with when I signed up for my account, which I only really wanted to leave comments on other blogs with, but I can see a lot of uses for this generally. Cool!
May 18th, 2006 at 6:29 pm
Now, is it possible to delete a blog without deleting your account?
May 18th, 2006 at 6:32 pm
Jonathan, I think so, but don't ask questions in the comments. Use the feedback form for a definite answer.
May 18th, 2006 at 7:08 pm
I liked these two points most:
1. If you wanted to leave comments on blogs that require sign-in.
2. If you are a writer on an existing blog, but don’t want a blog of your own.
I’m not a tech geek, so excuse me: What’s an API Key?
May 18th, 2006 at 7:27 pm
Erm…okay…I think…
May 18th, 2006 at 8:18 pm
WordPress.com Account ohne Blog
Um das Anti-Spam WP-Plugin Akismet einzusetzen benötigt man einen API-Key von WordPress.com. Um an einen Key zu kommen, ist es notwendig einen WordPress-Account anzumelden. Bisher beinhaltete dieser automatisch ein Blog. Ab sofort kann man einen…
May 18th, 2006 at 8:32 pm
Good idea, thanks
May 18th, 2006 at 10:10 pm
Very cool!
Now if i go to a web host (That’ll never happen) i wont have to register a blog to get a API
May 18th, 2006 at 11:53 pm
We just started a multi-author blog and was hoping for something like this! Thanks for all the improvements!
May 19th, 2006 at 1:32 am
Thanks for the updates, this feature will sure to banefit my friends
May 19th, 2006 at 5:28 am
This will benefit many people. Thanks a bunch.
May 19th, 2006 at 6:52 am
***If you read a blog that uses our not-yet-released members-only feature (hint)***
Now this sounds very interesting – my curiousity is all over me!
May 19th, 2006 at 6:57 am
I’m quite amused (scared?) by your (Hint)….If u mean that in-future you’ll have blogs that can only be rad by members, then i don’t think that it is a gr8 idea! Whatever happened to freedom of expression? why should anyone ’signup’ just to read a blog? I would’nt like it much when I’ve read the headline of an artcile and clicking on the ‘Read More’ button would ask me to signup before proceeding
May 19th, 2006 at 7:19 am
A friend of mine was wanting to become a writer on my blog but didn’t want a blog of his own. This will totally change that, a much needed feature, great job!
May 19th, 2006 at 12:52 pm
Thanks! Just started a blog only recently and wanted to invite a friend to co-write. Raised the question via support and by having this feature already now, it feels that it was done specially for me
Ofcourse this is not the case…but hey… great move!
May 19th, 2006 at 12:54 pm
Some ppl i know were thinking of this thankx wordpress
May 19th, 2006 at 3:47 pm
Really neat. Takes care of a pile of issues. Thanks guys
May 19th, 2006 at 4:27 pm
Wow! This is so cool! No doubt I am in love with WordPress
, even if I don’t understand a lot of the finer lines of blogging!
May 19th, 2006 at 6:54 pm
Even though I could have used this when I signed up for an API key, I made lemons into lemonade and use my hosted site as a free link to my real site. Your product is so good (and its free) that it never occurred to me to complain about this. Keep up the good work.
May 19th, 2006 at 10:16 pm
most excellent. most excellent. keep up the good work. I find more reasons why I migrated from Blogger every day.
May 19th, 2006 at 10:22 pm
Nice, but I already have the blog but don’t use it. What do I do? Delete the blog? Thanks…
May 19th, 2006 at 10:30 pm
Cool! I can’t wait as well for your members only feature to be released soon.
May 20th, 2006 at 4:07 pm
This is great. I can think of restricting the comments only for wp.com users now.
I am also looking forward for the members only feature that was hinted here…
May 20th, 2006 at 6:24 pm
this is a very cool feature! thanks guys
May 21st, 2006 at 10:16 am
thanks a lot. That’s step one and now I’m off to convince by batchmates to sign up
May 21st, 2006 at 2:20 pm
oh snap, good stuff
May 21st, 2006 at 7:55 pm
Entering the Blogosphere
WordPress.com is a convenient way to try out the latest version of WordPress. Sneaky. Right now it’s looking pretty Web 2.0. I don’t really know why you’d want to sign up without a blog, but I’m sure there are reasons for it.
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May 22nd, 2006 at 8:23 am
thanks a lot
good work
May 22nd, 2006 at 9:32 am
yay
May 22nd, 2006 at 11:02 pm
WordPress.com apre le registrazioni anche a coloro che non vogliono aprire un blog
Ho appena scoperto che da pochi giorni WordPress.com ha aperto le registrazioni di nuovi utenti anche a coloro che non vogliono creare un blog con la nota piattaforma.
E’ una buona notizia in particolar modo per due motivi:
1) Potete lasciare un …
May 23rd, 2006 at 1:02 am
Excellent work as always. I’m still loving it
May 23rd, 2006 at 5:45 am
Thanks for all the great work guys – though none of the features are useful for me I am not alone. There are many people out there who need it. Best blogging service there is online!
May 25th, 2006 at 4:42 am
Get WordPress.com Account without a Blog
If you want to get a WordPress.com account without getting a free WordPress blog, it is possible now. WordPress.com has updated the registration page for you.
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May 27th, 2006 at 3:53 am
Good idea, thanks for this cool feature.
It’s really good, I hope blog readers would apreciate it!.
June 6th, 2006 at 5:00 pm
Thanks a LOT for including the Portuguese in your language list! I keep speaking about the excelence of you service to others portuguese bloggers, and that support is quite important for us, portuguese speakers…
June 11th, 2006 at 7:09 am
That’s pretty cool. WordPress just keeps getting better. Now, if only the themes were customizable…