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<p>Registered only is a plugin to make all of your WordPress powered weblog/site protected. Once this plugin is enabled, the WordPress powered site or weblog (including Pages) will be accessible only to logged in, registered users.</p>


Registered Only

Registered only is a plugin to make all of your WordPress powered weblog/site protected. Once this plugin is enabled, the WordPress powered site or we …

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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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