WP Users v Jetpack Subscribers

  • Resolved pasgroup

    (@pasgroup)


    11 years, 11 months ago

    Hi All,
    First up I might be missing something and if so slap me up side the head and point me in the right direction….

    I have had a look in the forums and this issue doesn’t seem to be directly asked or answered or I missed it!.

    If a person signs up/subscribes to a site they by definition are a user of that site, straight forward logic there.
    A user is a user is a user no matter how they get there.

    Why would a plugin by WordPress not add those subscribers to the All Users of the base WP install, I could understand if it it wan’t a WP product AND it made it clear this was going to happen.

    It doesn’t make sense to have multiple places to manage your users from either an administrative or logical view.
    You may need to categorize them sure but manage them separately is asking for trouble or something to be missed.

    Have 16,700+ users and got hit with a registration SPAM attack the other day. Turned off registrations and was looking for a better way to manage, saw Jetpack was by WordPress so thought this was the best way to go. Default user was Subscriber so now have 2 places to manage new subscriptions.

    Am I missing something or does Jetpack really keep it’s subscribers separate from All Users?

    Thanks in advance.
    Pat Wilson

    https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/jetpack/

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  • Plugin Author Brandon Kraft

    (@kraftbj)

    Code Wrangler

    11 years, 10 months ago

    Hi Pat,

    Subscribers to your site via Jetpack aren’t users, as typically defined, for your WordPress site (e.g. they aren’t given an user name or password to access your site’s wp-admin area or for use in commenting (if not using Jetpack Comments), etc).

    In other words, there are different routes to handle people who wish to follow/subscribe to your site.

    With the Subscriber role within your WordPress site, the role is, in my opinion, poorly named since, by itself, users who have the Subscriber role are not notified of new posts (a plugin is needed to have a notification sent out). The role is best used (in the default code of WordPress) for commenters to have a login to verify their identity (or if you require commenters to have a registered account on your site).

    With Jetpack Subscriptions, instead of giving a follower a new set of credentials to every Jetpack site they follow (e.g. the method above), we centralize the subscriber experience at WordPress.com. They can visit http://subscribe.wordpress.com or via the Reader at WordPress.com for logged-in WordPress.com users to manage all of their subscriptions to any WordPress.com or Jetpack site.

    In short, Jetpack-based followers are not users of your site.

    Does that make sense or anything I could go into more detail on?

    Cheers!

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