Viewer role not found

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  kumidesilva · Member · Sep 17, 2014 at 12:31 am

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  I have a blog which I have kept all the pages private so far. I want a few others to view it before I am happy to publish it on line. However when I try to invite new users I don’t see a viewer role. I’ve sent a follower invitation but then they are not able to see any pages on the blog.

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

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  dannywellman · Member · Sep 17, 2014 at 12:36 am

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  Hi there!
  Have you tried the instructions from here?

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  kumidesilva · Member · Sep 17, 2014 at 12:38 am

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  Hi,

  Yes I have. There is no ‘viewer’ role on the drop down menu.

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  dannywellman · Member · Sep 17, 2014 at 12:42 am

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  Can you see the other users you have invited in your Users page?

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  kumidesilva · Member · Sep 17, 2014 at 12:44 am

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  Yes can see the others. If I haven’t set up my blog correctly as a ‘private’ blog. All I did was set each page as a private page. Do you know if I need to do something else to make this a private blog? Perhaps then the ‘viewer’ role will come up in the drop down menu?

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  kumidesilva · Member · Sep 17, 2014 at 12:45 am

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  Sorry that second sentence doesn’t make sense. Meant to say : I was wondering if I hadn’t set it up properly.

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  dannywellman · Member · Sep 17, 2014 at 12:48 am

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  Ah, I think I know what’s going on. Even viewers cannot see your pages if you have not published them. I believe the only roles that can see unpublished pages are Editors and Administrators—although it might be just Administrators, I can’t remember.

  You’ll need to publish the private pages and then the people you have invited should be able to see those pages.

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  kumidesilva · Member · Sep 17, 2014 at 12:51 am

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  Ok thanks will try that and let you know! Really appreciate your quick responses.

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  dannywellman · Member · Sep 17, 2014 at 12:52 am

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  No problem! Good luck. As long as you’ve set your whole site to be private, you should be safe from unwanted prying eyes.

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  kumidesilva · Member · Sep 17, 2014 at 2:31 am

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  I changed the Reading Settings to: I would like my site to be private, visible only to myself and users I choose. This included the role Viewer available for new users but the people I sent the invitation to still can’t see the content on the pages. They get an error message saying Content not found. When I look at my pages I can see that the page status is Privately Published. Not sure what to do next.

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  dannywellman · Member · Oct 1, 2014 at 12:43 am

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  Hi there! Sorry about the delay on this. I’ve been away for a bit.

  If you haven’t figured this out yet, I found some other visibility setting instructions here. It looks like if it’s private, Administrators and Editors are the only ones who can see the posts. You might have to make them password protected, I guess.

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  raincoaster · Member · Oct 1, 2014 at 1:09 am

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  The VIEWER role only exists when the blog is private. When the posts are private there is no way to invite people to read them other than to make them Admins of the blog.