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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.

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<h4>A flexible, well-supported, and easy-to-use WordPress membership plugin for offering free and premium content from your WordPress site</h4>
<p>The simple membership plugin lets you protect your posts and pages so only your members can view the protected content.</p>
<h4>Unlimited Membership Access Levels</h4>
<p>Set up unlimited membership levels (example: free, silver, gold etc) and protect your posts and pages using the membership levels you create.</p>
<h4>Flexible Membership Duration Options</h4>
<p>Simple Membership supports multiple membership duration models, including:</p>
<ul>
<li>Fixed duration (days, weeks, months, or years)</li>
<li>No expiry / until canceled</li>
<li>Fixed future expiry date</li>
<li>Annual memberships (calendar or fiscal year based)</li>
<li>Subscription-driven access</li>
</ul>
<p>Each membership level can be configured independently to match your access rules.</p>
<h4>User Friendly Interface for Content Protection</h4>
<p>When you are editing a post or page in the WordPress editor, you can select to protect that post or page for your members.</p>
<p>Non-members viewing a protected page will be prompted to log in or become a member.</p>
<h4>Have Free and Paid Memberships</h4>
<p>You can configure it to have free and/or paid memberships on your site. Paid membership payment is handled securely via PayPal. Membership payment can also be accepted using Stripe or Braintree payment gateways.</p>
<p>Both one time and recurring/subscription payments are supported for PayPal and Stripe.</p>
<p>You can accept one time membership payment via Braintree payment gateway.</p>
<p>Option to make membership payment buttons using the new PayPal Checkout API.</p>
<p>There is also option to use PayPal smart buttons for membership payment.</p>
<p>You can enable email activation or email confirmation for the free memberships.</p>
<h4>Membership Payments Log</h4>
<p>All the payments from your members are recorded in the plugin. You can view them anytime by visiting the payments menu from the admin dashboard.</p>
<h4>Developer API</h4>
<p>There are lots of action and filter hooks that a developer can use to customize the plugin.</p>
<p>There is also an API that can be used to query, create, update member accounts.</p>
<h4>Member Login Widget on The Sidebar</h4>
<p>You can easily add a member login widget on the sidebar of your site. Simply use the login form shortcode in the sidebar widget.</p>
<p>You can also customize the member login widget by creating a custom template file in your theme (or child theme) folder.</p>
<p>Option to show a password visibility toggle option in the login form.</p>
<h4>Documentation</h4>
<p>Read the <a href="https://simple-membership-plugin.com/simple-membership-documentation/" rel="nofollow ugc">setup documentation</a> after you install the plugin to get started.</p>
<h4>Plugin Support</h4>
<p>If you encounter any issues with this plugin, please visit our website to post on the support forum or contact us directly.<br />
https://simple-membership-plugin.com/</p>
<p>You can create a free forum account to ask your questions.</p>
<h4>Additional Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Works with any WordPress theme.</li>
<li>Ability to protect photo galleries.</li>
<li>Ability to protect attachment pages.</li>
<li>Show teaser content to convert visitors into members.</li>
<li>Comments on your protected posts will also be protected automatically.</li>
<li>There is an option to enable debug logging so you can troubleshoot membership payment related issues easily (if any).</li>
<li>Ability to customize the content protection message that gets shown to non-members.</li>
<li>Ability to partially protect post or page content.</li>
<li>You can apply protection to posts and pages in bulk.</li>
<li>Ability to use merge vars in the membership email notification.</li>
<li>Membership management side is handled by the plugin.</li>
<li>Ability to manually approve your members.</li>
<li>Ability to import WordPress users as members.</li>
<li>Search for a member’s profile in your WP admin dashboard.</li>
<li>Filter members list by account status.</li>
<li>Filter members list by membership level.</li>
<li>Site admins can save private notes about members, providing a convenient way to keep track of important information.</li>
<li>Can be translated to any language.</li>
<li>Hide the admin toolbar from the frontend of your site.</li>
<li>Allow your members to delete their membership accounts.</li>
<li>Send quick notification email to your members.</li>
<li>Email all members by membership level, with an option to filter by account status.</li>
<li>Customize the password reset email for members.</li>
<li>Use Google reCAPTCHA on your member registration form.</li>
<li>Use Google reCAPTCHA on your member login and password reset form.</li>
<li>The login and registration widgets will be responsive if you are using a responsive theme.</li>
<li>Ability to restrict the commenting feature on your site to your members only.</li>
<li>Front-end member registration page.</li>
<li>Front-end member profiles.</li>
<li>Front-end member login page.</li>
<li>Option to configure after login redirection for members.</li>
<li>Option to configure after registration redirect for members.</li>
<li>Option to configure after logout redirection for members.</li>
<li>Option force the members to use strong password.</li>
<li>Option to make the users agree to your terms and conditions before they can register for a member account.</li>
<li>Option to make the users agree to your privacy policy before they can register for a member account.</li>
<li>Option to hide the registration/join option. Useful if you prefer visitors not to see the registration option on your site.</li>
<li>Option to automatically logout the members when they close the browser.</li>
<li>Ability to forward the payment notification to an external URL for further processing.</li>
<li>Option to configure whitelisting for user email addresses to allow registration only from specific email addresses or email domains.</li>
<li>Option to configure blacklisting for user email addresses to block registration from certain email addresses or email domains.</li>
<li>Allows you to set an active login limit for members, helping to prevent account sharing.</li>
<li>Option to enable and set failed login attempt limit, which helps to protect against brute force attacks.</li>
<li>Option to enable login event tracking, allowing you to view the history of member logins.</li>
<li>Option to reset the settings and data of the plugin to start fresh.</li>
<li>Option to configure PayPal payment buttons for memberships (one-time and recurring payments).</li>
<li>Option to configure Stripe payment buttons for memberships (one-time and recurring payments).</li>
<li>Option to configure Braintree payment buttons for memberships (one-time payments).</li>
<li>Free Social Login addon that lets users log in with their Google or Facebook accounts.</li>
<li>The plugin is actively maintained and we are working on new features for the plugin.</li>
<li>Browse the <a href="https://simple-membership-plugin.com/simple-membership-documentation/" rel="nofollow ugc">plugin documentation</a> to learn more about the features of this plugin.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Language Translations</h4>
<p>The following language translations are already available:</p>
<ul>
<li>English</li>
<li>German</li>
<li>French</li>
<li>Spanish</li>
<li>Spanish (Venezuela)</li>
<li>Chinese</li>
<li>Portuguese (Brazil)</li>
<li>Portuguese (Portugal)</li>
<li>Swedish</li>
<li>Macedonian</li>
<li>Polish</li>
<li>Turkish</li>
<li>Russian</li>
<li>Dutch (Netherlands)</li>
<li>Dutch (Belgium)</li>
<li>Romanian</li>
<li>Danish</li>
<li>Lithuanian</li>
<li>Serbian</li>
<li>Japanese</li>
<li>Greek</li>
<li>Latvian</li>
<li>Indonesian</li>
<li>Hebrew</li>
<li>Catalan</li>
<li>Hungarian</li>
<li>Bosnian (Bosnia and Herzegovina)</li>
<li>Slovak</li>
<li>Italian</li>
<li>Norwegian</li>
<li>Mexican</li>
<li>Arabic</li>
<li>Czech</li>
<li>Finnish</li>
</ul>
<p>You can translate the plugin using the language <a href="https://simple-membership-plugin.com/translate-simple-membership-plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">translation documentation</a>.</p>


Simple Membership


upon reflection, the devs are doing an amazing job. They're providing an intricate piece of software to the community for free. Thanks guys.



there's a little room for improvement in terms of the docs and the core functionality. But overall, I'd recommend this software to others.


Not there yet; but impressive nonetheless 👏

Simple Membership is an excellent plugin that delivers exactly what it promises. The setup is straightforward, and it offers all the features needed for content protection and membership management. Its flexibility and compatibility with other plugins are particularly impressive. Highly recommended!

Excellent plugin - highly recommended


The plugin is simple to set up and use. It is necessary to read the documentation, but it clearly explains how to set it up and use. Well done!


Simple, yet powerful

Simple membership plugin adds membership functionality to your site. Protect members only content using content protection easily.

Groups vs Simple Membership