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<h3>What is Groups?</h3>
<p>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.</p>
<h3>Why use it?</h3>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Groups works great with WooCommerce, so you can make some products only available to members of certain groups.</p>
<h3>What it Does</h3>
<p>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.</p>
<h3>Ease of Use</h3>
<p>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.</p>
<h3>Control Content</h3>
<p>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.</p>
<h3>Control Permissions</h3>
<p>Define what actions users in particular groups can perform, based on standard WordPress capabilities and custom capabilities provided by plugins.</p>
<h3>In a Nutshell</h3>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Groups integrates with <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce/" rel="ugc">WooCommerce</a> to protect access to products, so that certain products can be purchased by members only.</p>
<p>Enhanced functionality is available via the <a href="https://woocommerce.com/vendor/itthinx/" rel="nofollow ugc">WooCommerce Marketplace</a> and <a href="https://www.itthinx.com/product-category/groups/" rel="nofollow ugc">Extensions</a> for Groups.</p>
<h3>Key Features</h3>
<h4>Membership Management</h4>
<p>You can put users into different groups, similar to assigning them to different classes or teams.</p>
<h4>Content Access Control</h4>
<p>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.</p>
<h4>Capabilities</h4>
<p>You can assign special rights to users based on which group they are a member of.</p>
<h3>Framework</h3>
<p>Groups is designed as an efficient, powerful and flexible solution for group-oriented memberships and content access control.</p>
<p>It provides group-based user membership management, group-based capabilities and access control for content, built on solid principles.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<h3>Documentation</h3>
<p>The official documentation is located at the <a href="https://docs.itthinx.com/document/groups/" rel="nofollow ugc">Groups Documentation</a> pages.</p>
<h3>Funding and Sponsors</h3>
<p>Your support matters!</p>
<p>By getting an official extension or contributing, you help fund the work that is necessary to maintain and improve Groups.</p>
<ul>
<li>Contribute directly to the Bitcoin address <em>bc1q7klf9ge8gvtl4h4qlh6c73tgk0cdehfv5vcq0g</em> where sats received are used to fund developers who help to maintain and develop Groups</li>
<li>Purchase an official <a href="https://www.itthinx.com/product-category/groups/" rel="nofollow ugc">Extension for Groups</a></li>
<li>Purchase an extension on the <a href="https://woocommerce.com/vendor/itthinx/" rel="nofollow ugc">WooCommerce Marketplace</a></li>
<li>Sponsor the development of new features: <a href="https://www.itthinx.com/contact/" rel="nofollow ugc">get in touch</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Comprehensive Features</h3>
<p>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:</p>
<h4>User groups</h4>
<ul>
<li>Supports an unlimited number of groups</li>
<li>Provides a Registered group which is automatically maintained</li>
<li>Users can be assigned to any group</li>
<li>Users are added automatically to the Registered group</li>
</ul>
<h4>Groups hierarchy</h4>
<ul>
<li>Supports group hierarchies with capability inheritance</li>
</ul>
<h4>Group capabilities</h4>
<ul>
<li>Integrates standard WordPress capabilities which can be assigned to groups and users</li>
<li>Supports custom capabilities: allows to define new capabilities for usage in plugins and web applications</li>
<li>Users inherit capabilities of the groups they belong to</li>
<li>Groups inherit capabilities of their parent groups</li>
</ul>
<h4>Access control</h4>
<p>Access to posts, pages and custom post types can be restricted by group.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Fully supports custom post types, so that access to post types such as products or events can easily be restricted.</p>
<ul>
<li>Built-in access control that allows to restrict access to posts, pages and custom content types to specific groups and users only</li>
<li>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 –<br />
Shortcodes: [groups_member], [groups_non_member]</li>
<li>Control access to content by capabilities: show (or do not show) content to users who have certain capabilities –<br />
Shortcodes: [groups_can], [groups_can_not]</li>
<li>Blocks: The Groups Member block allows to restrict the visibility of its content to members of selected groups.<br />
The Groups Non-Member block hides its content from members of chosen groups.<br />
The blocks can be nested to provide multiple layers of access control to content.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Easy user interface</h4>
<ul>
<li>Integrates nicely with the standard WordPress Users menu</li>
<li>Provides an intuitive Groups menu</li>
<li>Conceptually clean views showing the essentials</li>
<li>Quick filters</li>
<li>Bulk-actions where needed, for example apply capabilities to groups, bulk-add users to groups, bulk-remove users from groups</li>
</ul>
<h4>Sensible options</h4>
<ul>
<li>Enable access restrictions by custom post type</li>
<li>An optional tree view for groups can be shown when desired</li>
<li>Provides its own set of permissions</li>
<li>Administrator overrides for tests</li>
<li>Cleans up after testing with a “delete all plugin data” option</li>
</ul>
<h4>Framework</h4>
<ul>
<li>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</li>
</ul>
<h4>Multisite</h4>
<ul>
<li>All features are supported independently for each blog in multisite installations</li>
</ul>
<h3>Extensions</h3>
<p>Enhanced functionality is available via official <a href="https://www.itthinx.com/shop/" rel="nofollow ugc">Extensions</a> for Groups.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/groups-woocommerce/" rel="nofollow ugc">Groups Integration for WooCommerce</a> : Sell Memberships with Groups and WooCommerce – the best Group Membership and Access Control solution for WordPress and WooCommerce.</li>
<li><a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/group-coupons/" rel="nofollow ugc">WooCommerce Group Coupons</a> : Automatically apply and restrict coupon validity for user groups. Offer exclusive, automatic and targeted discounts for your customers.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.itthinx.com/shop/groups-drip-content/" rel="nofollow ugc">Groups Drip Content</a> : Release content on a schedule. Content dripping can be based on user account creation, group memberships and specific dates and times.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.itthinx.com/shop/groups-file-access/" rel="nofollow ugc">Groups File Access</a> : Allows to provide file download links for authorized users. Access to files is restricted to users by their group membership.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.itthinx.com/shop/groups-restrict-categories/" rel="nofollow ugc">Groups Restrict Categories</a> : Features access restrictions for categories, tags and other WordPress taxonomies, including support for custom post types and taxonomies.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.itthinx.com/shop/groups-forums/" rel="nofollow ugc">Groups Forums</a> : A powerful and yet light-weight forum system for WordPress sites.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.itthinx.com/shop/groups-import-export/" rel="nofollow ugc">Groups Import Export</a> : Provides import and export facilities around users and groups.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.itthinx.com/shop/groups-newsletters/" rel="nofollow ugc">Groups Newsletters</a> : Newsletter Campaigns for Subscribers and Groups.</li>
<li><a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-product-search/" rel="nofollow ugc">WooCommerce Product Search</a> : 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.</li>
<li><a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/restrict-payment-methods/" rel="nofollow ugc">Restrict Payment Methods</a> : Limit the use of WooCommerce Payment Methods by Group Memberships, Roles, Countries, and Order Amounts.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.itthinx.com/shop/widgets-control-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">Widgets Control Pro</a> : An advanced Widget toolbox that adds visibility management and helps to control where widgets are shown efficiently.</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/groups-404-redirect/" rel="ugc">Groups 404 Redirect</a> : This plugin redirects 404’s caused by hits on pages that are protected by Groups.</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/groups-blog-protect/" rel="ugc">Groups Blog Protect</a> : The plugin protects a site so that only members can access its pages.</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/groups-bbpress/" rel="ugc">Groups bbPress</a> : Integrates Groups and bbPress so that all topics and replies related to protected forums are also protected automatically.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Feedback</h3>
<p>Feedback is welcome!</p>
<p>If you need help, have problems, want to leave feedback or want to provide constructive criticism, please do so here at the <a href="https://www.itthinx.com/plugins/groups/" rel="nofollow ugc">Groups Plugin</a> page.</p>
<p>Please try to solve problems there before you rate this plugin or say it doesn’t work. There goes a <em>lot</em> of work into providing you with free quality plugins! Please appreciate that and help with your feedback. Many thanks!</p>
<h4>Stay informed or contribute</h4>
<p>Follow @‌itthinx on <a href="https://github.com/itthinx/" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/itthinx" rel="nofollow ugc">X – Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/itthinx/" rel="nofollow ugc">Reddit</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/@itthinx" rel="nofollow ugc">Mastodon</a>, <a href="https://rumble.com/user/itthinx" rel="nofollow ugc">Rumble</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@itthinx_official" rel="nofollow ugc">YouTube</a> for news related to Groups and other plugins.</p>
<p>Get development notifications, contribute code or open issues at the Groups repository on <a href="https://github.com/itthinx/" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>.</p>
<h3>Translations</h3>
<p>Translations have been contributed by many from the WordPress community, via the GitHub repository <a href="https://github.com/itthinx/groups/" rel="nofollow ugc">Groups</a>, the section for Groups on <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/groups/" rel="nofollow ugc">Translating WordPress</a> or as direct contributions.</p>
<p>This includes translations from the following contributors and many others to …</p>
<p>Brazilian Portuguese by <a href="http://wjaworski.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Walter Jaworski</a>, <a href="https://Mealfan.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Eric Sornoso</a>,<br />
Dutch translation by <a href="http://presis.nl" rel="nofollow ugc">Carsten Alsemgeest</a>,<br />
French translation by <a href="http://www.pheeric.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Stéphane Passedouet</a>,<br />
German translation by <a href="https://www.itthinx.com" rel="nofollow ugc">itthinx</a>,<br />
Lithuanian translation by <a href="http://www.Host1Free.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Vincent G</a>,<br />
Spanish translation by <a href="https://www.itthinx.com" rel="nofollow ugc">itthinx</a>, <a href="http://www.lamadjinpa.es" rel="nofollow ugc">Juan Amor</a>,<br />
Swedish translation by <a href="http://adevade.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Andréas Lundgren</a>.</p>
<p>Many thanks for your help!</p>


Groups


Good plugin. I have been using it from 6 year. Thank you


Work perfectly

Groups is an efficient and powerful solution, providing group-based user membership management, group-based capabilities and content access control.

Jason Coleman

Paid Memberships Pro

<h3>IMPORTANT UPDATE</h3>
<p>Since PMPro version 2.9 was released on July 18, 2022, this plugin is no longer needed to manage user fields. With PMPro 2.9+, you can manage user fields from the Memberships > Settings > User Fields page in the WP admin dashboard. Any custom code written to work with Register Helper will still work as intended with only PMPro 2.9 installed.</p>
<p><em>This plugin will no longer be maintained.</em></p>
<p>If you were using the member directory features, you should use the <a href="https://www.paidmembershipspro.com/add-ons/member-directory/" rel="nofollow ugc">PMPro Member Directory plugin</a>.</p>
<p>If you were using the Register Form module with PMPro, you should consider using the <a href="https://www.paidmembershipspro.com/add-ons/pmpro-signup-shortcode/" rel="nofollow ugc">PMPro Sign Up Shortcode plugin</a>).</p>
<p>If you were using the Register Form without PMPro, you can continue to use this plugin, but note that it will no longer be maintained.</p>
<p>If you were using the Restrict by Email/Username feature, you should use <a href="https://github.com/strangerstudios/pmpro-snippets-library/blob/dev/checkout/restrict-checkout-by-email-or-username.php" rel="nofollow ugc">this code snippet instead</a>.</p>
<h3>The most popular WordPress plugin for custom user fields and member profiles.</h3>
<p>Create custom user profile fields and collect additional user information at registration or membership checkout for your WordPress users, members, and site admins.</p>
<p>User fields can be added in many locations including:</p>
<ul>
<li>The membership checkout page in Paid Memberships Pro</li>
<li>Captured on the user’s frontend profile page.</li>
<li>Managed in the WordPress admin area on the “Your Profile” screen (for users).</li>
<li>Edited by site admins only on the “Edit User Profile” screen in the WordPress admin.</li>
</ul>
<p>This plugin also allows you to restrict membership registration for a list of approved email addresses or usernames.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.paidmembershipspro.com/add-ons/pmpro-register-helper-add-checkout-and-profile-fields/?utm_source=wordpress-org&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=pmpro-regiser-helper" rel="nofollow ugc">Learn more about custom user profile fields and member registration fields in our documentation site</a>.</p>
<h3>Supports Multiple Field Types</h3>
<p>Choose from a variety of popular user field types to capture additional information about your members. Fields can be customized by the member’s selected or active membership level. The most popular field types include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Text and Textarea</li>
<li>Select and Select2 (multi-select)</li>
<li>Checkbox, Grouped Checkboxes, and Radio Select</li>
<li>Date</li>
<li>File Upload</li>
<li>Read-only</li>
<li>HTML (generates any desired HTML)</li>
<li>Hidden</li>
</ul>
<h4>Adding Fields For Specific Membership Levels</h4>
<p>This plugin is built for Paid Memberships Pro, the top WordPress membership plugin that’s 100% free. You can add your fields for all members, or choose to show a field for specific members only. For example, allow your Premium level members to add a full length bio and upload a resume, while your Starter members can only add a brief bio and no file upload.</p>
<p>Custom user fields are a way to gather more information about your members and create a more tailored, premium experience.</p>
<h4>Conditional User Field Logic</h4>
<p>Any registered field can be a conditional field. These fields use JavaScript to dynamically hide or show based on another field’s value.</p>
<h4>Create a Public or Private Member Directory</h4>
<p>Many sites use these custom fields to build a member directory for site visitors or members. You can customize which fields are displayed based on membership level. Read the <a href="https://www.paidmembershipspro.com/add-ons/member-directory/?utm_source=wordpress-org&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=pmpro-register-helper" rel="nofollow ugc">Member Directory and Profiles for PMPro</a> documentation page for more information on this feature.</p>
<h4>Restrict Membership Checkout by Email Address or Username</h4>
<p>Add your list of custom “approved” email addresses or usernames to the “Restrict by Email” or “Restrict by Username” field on the Memberships > Settings > Membership Levels > Edit Level admin page.</p>
<p><span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VVTHYPQpfZ4?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation"></iframe></span></p>
<h3>About Paid Memberships Pro</h3>
<p><a href="https://www.paidmembershipspro.com/?utm_source=wordpress-org&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=pmpro-register-helper" rel="nofollow ugc">Paid Memberships Pro is a WordPress membership plugin</a> that puts you in control. Create what you want and release in whatever format works best for your business.</p>
<ul>
<li>Courses & E-Learning</li>
<li>Private podcasts</li>
<li>Premium Newsletters</li>
<li>Private Communities</li>
<li>Sell physical & digital goods</li>
</ul>
<p>Paid Memberships Pro allows anyone to build a membership site—for free. Restrict content, accept payment, and manage subscriptions right from your WordPress admin.</p>
<p>Paid Memberships Pro is built “the WordPress way” with a lean core plugin and over 75 Add Ons to enhance every aspect of your membership site. Each business is different and we encourage customization. For our members we have a library of 300+ recipes to personalize your membership site.</p>
<p>Paid Memberships Pro is the flagship product of Stranger Studios. We are a bootstrapped company which grows when membership sites like yours grow. That means we focus our entire company towards helping you succeed.</p>
<p><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/paid-memberships-pro/" rel="ugc">Try Paid Memberships Pro entirely for free on WordPress.org</a> and see why 100,000+ sites trust us to help them #GetPaid.</p>
<h3>Read More</h3>
<p>Want more information on private forums, premium discussion boards, and WordPress membership sites? Have a look at:</p>
<ul>
<li>The <a href="https://www.paidmembershipspro.com/?utm_source=wordpress-org&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=pmpro-register-helper" rel="nofollow ugc">Paid Memberships Pro</a> official homepage.</li>
<li>The <a href="https://www.paidmembershipspro.com/add-ons/pmpro-register-helper-add-checkout-and-profile-fields/?utm_source=wordpress-org&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=pmpro-register-helper" rel="nofollow ugc">Custom Fields Register Helper for PMPro documentation page</a>.</li>
<li>Also follow PMPro on <a href="https://twitter.com/pmproplugin" rel="nofollow ugc">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFtMIeYJ4_YVidi1aq9kl5g" rel="nofollow ugc">YouTube</a> & <a href="https://www.facebook.com/PaidMembershipsPro/" rel="nofollow ugc">Facebook</a>.</li>
</ul>


Custom User Profile Fields for User Registration & Member Frontend Profiles with Paid Memberships Pro

Adding extra fields took me some time to understand, but after following the documentation I can create many custom fields and it works like a charm. Great add-on for a great plugin! :)

Works great!

A flexible and helpful plugin - and it's free!

Create custom user profile fields collected at registration or membership checkout for your WordPress users, members, and site admins.

Groups vs Custom User Profile Fields for User Registration & Member Frontend Profiles with Paid Memberships Pro