Title: [NSFW] subscribers v users Last modified: August 21, 2016 --- # [NSFW] subscribers v users * [angelagoodnight](https://wordpress.org/support/users/angelagoodnight/) * (@angelagoodnight) * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subscribers-v-users/) * I still don’t understand the difference here. I have 14 subscribers but around 50 users. These are my questions: 1) Do users get a notification when something is posted on the blog? 2) How do people become users? I don’t have anywhere on my blog where people are invited to become users. I would rather they were subscribers. * This is my blog: **[NSFW]** [http://www.angelagoodnight.com/sexblog](http://www.angelagoodnight.com/sexblog)– warning 18+ content. * Angle Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) * Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/) * (@t-p) * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subscribers-v-users/#post-4900234) * – Users = WordPress Users – Subscribers = People that are subscribing to your site, nothing more, unless you mess with a Role Editor and give them posting rights, for example. – Members = Usually means paying members, in addition to being WP users, too. – also have a read of: [https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities](https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities) * Thread Starter [angelagoodnight](https://wordpress.org/support/users/angelagoodnight/) * (@angelagoodnight) * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subscribers-v-users/#post-4900299) * Thank you for answering TAra, but I still don’t have an answer to either of the two questions – do users on my blog get a notification when something is posted and how do people become users on my blog – I can’t see what they click to become a user. * Can you answer that plesse. It seems a fairly simple question but I’ve never been able to get an answer to it. * The Roles and Capabilities pate you referred me to doesn’t seem to even mention who gets notifications at all. * HELP! Getting very frustrated about the inability to get this answered. * Angie * [smjonz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smjonz/) * (@smjonz) * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subscribers-v-users/#post-4900601) * Hi Angie, * Did you ever get a satisfactory answer to this question? I would like to know exactly the same things you asked here? * Thanks * Stephanie * Thread Starter [angelagoodnight](https://wordpress.org/support/users/angelagoodnight/) * (@angelagoodnight) * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subscribers-v-users/#post-4900602) * Hi Stephanie, * As I understand it the only people who get notifications are the subscribers to the blog. Users are irrelevant and are usually just people wanting to spam your blog. * Hope that helps. * Despite over 60,000 stories being read on our blog we still only have 20 subscribers. We’ve tried everything to encourage people to subscribe including giving away free books. Nothing seems to work. * As we are a sex blog it is possible that people are reluctant to receive mail from us so that could be a reason. LOL. Actually most of our readers seem to be women judging by email feedback. * Angie Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) The topic ‘[NSFW] subscribers v users’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [subscribers](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/subscribers/) * [subscriptions](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/subscriptions/) * [users](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/users/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 4 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [angelagoodnight](https://wordpress.org/support/users/angelagoodnight/) * Last activity: [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subscribers-v-users/#post-4900602) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics