Follower role in the User menu?

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    herdfan · Member ·

    Is there a way to make the follower role be a choice in the user role drop down and have all the followers of a blog be in the users list?

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

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    timethief · Member ·

    No. It’s not up to any followers to assign themselves roles of any kind. The blogger has control of that function.

    Your WordPress followers including Publicize are at this link https://wordpress.com/my-stats/?blog_subscribers

    Your email only followers are at this link
    https://wordpress.com/my-stats/?blog_subscribers&type=email

    You can have either a public or a private 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. If you want users to receive updates each time you publish new content you can invite them to be a follower/viewer.

    See here:
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/ and here http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/

    The person will have to register a username account but does not need to register a blog. Registering an account is required as the software has to be able to allow access only to those with username accounts and official roles on the blog.

    They will need to click the “Accept Invitation” button in the invitation email. If they are logged into their WordPress.com account, they will be taken directly to your blog. If not, they will be taken to the log-in screen, where they can either log in or create a new user account.

    Note that users who 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.

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    herdfan · Member ·

    Yes, I know all that or at least most of it. Background, I have been an admin on another blog, there were roles that were assigned to ‘users’…they were called subscribers. Also had the Admin, Editor, contributor…so on.

    This ‘new’ blog was first private, and now is public. As far as I can see, no way to get the ‘viewers’ , as they were when it was private, now they are converted to followers. But are still in separate places rather than together. Might be due to the other blog was a wordpress.org blog rather than wordpress.com?

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