Groups v3.8.0

**What is Groups?**

The Groups plugin for WordPress is an essential tool that helps you organize users on your website. Think of it like sorting people into different clubs or teams, where each club has its own set of rules about who can access and do what.

**Why use it?**

This plugin is very useful if you want to control who can see certain content or perform specific actions on your website. It helps you to keep some parts of your website exclusive to specific groups or to give special rights to some users.

Groups works great with WooCommerce, so you can make some products only available to members of certain groups.

**What it Does**

It allows you to create groups, assign users to these groups, and set permissions for what each group can do or see on your site.

**Ease of Use**

The Groups plugin works within the familiar WordPress Dashboard, so you do not need to learn something completely new. Clean views and clear functions make it quick and easy to work with.

**Control Content**

You can make parts of your website visible to members of specific groups only, which is great for managing exclusive areas and products. You can protect whole pages, products and other types of content. You can also protect sections within pages.

**Control Permissions**

Define what actions users in particular groups can perform, based on standard WordPress capabilities and custom capabilities provided by plugins.

**In a Nutshell**

The Groups plugin makes managing your WordPress site easier, especially if you need to control who can do what or see what. It is designed to be easy to use, reducing the complexity of user management and content access.

Groups integrates with WooCommerce to protect access to products, so that certain products can be purchased by members only.

Enhanced functionality is available via the WooCommerce Marketplace and Extensions for Groups.

**Key Features**

**Membership Management**

You can put users into different groups, similar to assigning them to different classes or teams.

**Content Access Control**

You can decide that only specific groups can see certain content, posts, pages or products. If you are not in the right group, you will not see that protected content.

**Capabilities**

You can assign special rights to users based on which group they are a member of.

**Framework**

Groups is designed as an efficient, powerful and flexible solution for group-oriented memberships and content access control.

It provides group-based user membership management, group-based capabilities and access control for content, built on solid principles.

Groups is light-weight and offers an easy user interface, while it acts as a framework and integrates standard WordPress capabilities and application-specific capabilities along with an extensive API.

**Документация**

The official documentation is located at the Groups Documentation pages.

**Funding and Sponsors**

Your support matters!

By getting an official extension or contributing, you help fund the work that is necessary to maintain and improve Groups.

• Contribute directly to the Bitcoin address bc1q7klf9ge8gvtl4h4qlh6c73tgk0cdehfv5vcq0g where sats received are used to fund developers who help to maintain and develop Groups

• Purchase an official Extension for Groups

• Purchase an extension on the WooCommerce Marketplace

• Sponsor the development of new features: get in touch

**Comprehensive Features**

Groups is powerful and effective, yet simple and easy to use. While its flexibility covers a wide range of functions, some of the most commonly used aspects include:

**User groups**

• Supports an unlimited number of groups

• Provides a Registered group which is automatically maintained

• Users can be assigned to any group

• Users are added automatically to the Registered group

**Groups hierarchy**

• Supports group hierarchies with capability inheritance

**Group capabilities**

• Integrates standard WordPress capabilities which can be assigned to groups and users

• Supports custom capabilities: allows to define new capabilities for usage in plugins and web applications

• Users inherit capabilities of the groups they belong to

• Groups inherit capabilities of their parent groups

**Access control**

Access to posts, pages and custom post types can be restricted by group.

If access to a post is restricted to one or more groups, only users who belong to one of those groups may view the post.

Fully supports custom post types, so that access to post types such as products or events can easily be restricted.

• Built-in access control that allows to restrict access to posts, pages and custom content types to specific groups and users only

• Control access to content by groups: shortcodes allow to control who can access content on posts, show parts to members of certain groups or to those who are not members —

Shortcodes: [groups_member], [groups_non_member]

• Control access to content by capabilities: show (or do not show)...