Viewers vs. Users

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  gessertaarcss · Member · Dec 12, 2014 at 4:46 pm

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  I have sent out requests that my friends view my private blog and they have accepted. Why don’t they appear on my Users page? I want to change a role for one of them, but I can’t seem to do this unless they are a User. What is the difference?

  Thanks!

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

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  alexjgustafson · Member · Dec 12, 2014 at 9:25 pm

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  Hi there!

  When someone accepts an invitation to be a Viewer on a private blog, they’ll be added to a separate list from your blog Users, which you can view in your Reading Settings:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/#viewing-and-removing-viewers-from-a-private-blog

  If you’d like to change the user role for one of your viewers, you’ll need to send them a new User invitation that includes the new role.

  Best,

  -Alex G.