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    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.

    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.

    Documentation

    The official documentation is located at the Groups Documentation pages.

    Features

    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) content to users who have certain capabilities –
      Shortcodes: [groups_can], [groups_can_not]
    • Blocks: The Groups Member block allows to restrict the visibility of its content to members of selected groups.
      The Groups Non-Member block hides its content from members of chosen groups.
      The blocks can be nested to provide multiple layers of access control to content.

    Easy user interface

    • Integrates nicely with the standard WordPress Users menu
    • Provides an intuitive Groups menu
    • Conceptually clean views showing the essentials
    • Quick filters
    • Bulk-actions where needed, for example apply capabilities to groups, bulk-add users to groups, bulk-remove users from groups

    Sensible options

    • Enable access restrictions by custom post type
    • An optional tree view for groups can be shown when desired
    • Provides its own set of permissions
    • Administrator overrides for tests
    • Cleans up after testing with a “delete all plugin data” option

    Framework

    • Groups is designed based on a solid and sound data-model with a complete API that allows developers to create group-oriented web applications and plugins

    Multisite

    • All features are supported independently for each blog in multisite installations

    Extensions

    Enhanced functionality is available via official Extensions for Groups.

    Groups is a large project that is providing essential functionality to tens of thousands of sites since 2012. By getting an official extension, you help fund the work that is necessary to maintain and improve Groups.

    • Groups WooCommerce : Sell Memberships with Groups and WooCommerce – the best Group Membership and Access Control solution for WordPress and WooCommerce.
    • WooCommerce Group Coupons : Automatically apply and restrict coupon validity for user groups. Offer exclusive, automatic and targeted discounts for your customers.
    • Groups Drip Content : Release content on a schedule. Content dripping can be based on user account creation, group memberships and specific dates and times.
    • Groups File Access : Allows to provide file download links for authorized users. Access to files is restricted to users by their group membership.
    • Groups Restrict Categories : Features access restrictions for categories, tags and other WordPress taxonomies, including support for custom post types and taxonomies.
    • Groups Forums : A powerful and yet light-weight forum system for WordPress sites.
    • Groups Import Export : Provides import and export facilities around users and groups.
    • Groups Newsletters : Newsletter Campaigns for Subscribers and Groups.
    • WooCommerce Product Search : The perfect Search Engine helps customers to find and buy products quickly – essential for every WooCommerce store. The search engine honors access restrictions imposed by Groups and supports caching based on WordPress roles and memberships with Groups.
    • Widgets Control Pro : An advanced Widget toolbox that adds visibility management and helps to control where widgets are shown efficiently.

    Feedback

    Feedback is welcome!

    If you need help, have problems, want to leave feedback or want to provide constructive criticism, please do so here at the Groups Plugin page.

    Please try to solve problems there before you rate this plugin or say it doesn’t work. There goes a lot of work into providing you with free quality plugins! Please appreciate that and help with your feedback. Many thanks!

    Stay informed or contribute

    Follow @‌itthinx on GitHub, X – Twitter, Reddit, Mastodon, Rumble, YouTube for news related to Groups and other plugins.

    Get development notifications, contribute code or open issues at the Groups repository on GitHub.

    Translations

    Translations have been contributed by many from the WordPress community, via the GitHub repository Groups, the section for Groups on Translating WordPress or as direct contributions.

    This includes translations from the following contributors and many others to …

    Brazilian Portuguese by Walter Jaworski, Eric Sornoso,
    Dutch translation by Carsten Alsemgeest,
    French translation by Stéphane Passedouet,
    German translation by itthinx,
    Lithuanian translation by Vincent G,
    Spanish translation by itthinx, Juan Amor,
    Swedish translation by Andréas Lundgren.

    Many thanks for your help!

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