<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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 pages (posts, pages, products and other post types) can be restricted by group.</p>
<p>If access to a page is restricted to one or more groups, only users who belong to one of those groups may view it.</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 whole pages to specific groups only.</li>
<li>Blocks: The <em>Groups Member</em> block allows to restrict the visibility of its content to members of selected groups. The <em>Groups Non-Member</em> block hides its content from members of chosen groups. The blocks can be nested to provide multiple layers of access control to content.</li>
<li>Shortcodes allow to control who can access sections of content on pages, show parts to members of certain groups or to those who are not members. Shortcodes can also be used to show content for users based on their capabilities.</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 to locate groups, capabilities, users and pages</li>
<li>Bulk-actions where needed, apply capabilities to groups, add users to groups, remove users from groups, protect pages in bulk</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>
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<h3>Extensions</h3>
<p>You can add more features with official extensions that further integrate Groups and WooCommerce. Among the extensions in the WooCommerce Marketplace we recommend:</p>
<h4><a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/groups-woocommerce/">Groups Integration</a></h4>
<p>Sell Memberships with Groups and WooCommerce. Grants memberships based on products. It automatically assigns a customer to one or more groups based on the products ordered.</p>
<h4><a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/group-coupons/">Group Coupons</a></h4>
<p>Automatically apply and restrict coupon validity for user groups. Offer exclusive, automatic and targeted discounts for your customers.</p>
<h4><a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-product-search/">WooCommerce Product Search</a></h4>
<p>The perfect Search Engine helps customers to find and buy products quickly – essential for every WooCommerce store. Supports performance features based on group memberships.</p>
<h4><a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/restrict-payment-methods/">Restrict Payment Methods</a></h4>
<p>Limit the use of Payment Methods by Group Memberships, Roles, Countries, and Order Amounts.</p>
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Groups

<p>Stores selling products to B2B and B2C customers must often adjust product prices and catalog visibility for different user roles. However, before that, they must assign user roles to hundreds and thousands of customers. This extension allows you to display a user role dropdown on the registration page to allow customers to choose their role. Previously registered customers can change their user role from the “My Account” page.</p>
<p>You can display selected user roles in the dropdown, enable manual approval for specific user roles, and leave the rest for auto-approval.</p>
<div class="woo-sc-box normal">If you want to add custom registration fields and user roles dropdown along with approve new user, please buy our <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/custom-user-registration-fields-for-woocommerce/">Custom Registration Fields Extension</a></div>
<h3 id="item-description__main-features-included-in-choose-user-roles-plugin"><strong>Features</strong></h3>
<ul>
<li>Display a user role dropdown on the registration and checkout page (account creation section).</li>
<li>Display selected user roles in the dropdown.</li>
<li>Option to auto-approve and manually approve user roles.</li>
<li>Allow/disallow customers to request a user role from my account page.</li>
<li>Email notifications for admins and customers.</li>
<li>Display custom messages to notify users about user role status on the My Account page.</li>
<li>Customize field label.</li>
<li>Works for both WordPress and WooCommerce registration forms.</li>
</ul>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6334824" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/User-Roles-Dropdown-on-WooCommerce-Registration-Form.png" alt="User Roles Dropdown on WooCommerce Registration Form" width="870" height="559" /></p>
<h3><strong>Display selected user roles in dropdown:</strong></h3>
<p>Instead of showing all user roles, this extension enables you to show only relevant user roles in the dropdown and keep VIP user roles at the admin’s disposal, to assign from the backend as they see fit.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6334853" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Display-selected-user-role-in-dropdown-1.png" alt="Display selected user role in dropdown" width="855" height="901" /></p>
<h3><strong>Manual and auto-approval: </strong></h3>
<p>You can enable manual approval for specific user roles and keep the rest on auto-approval. This feature allows you to validate customers before they can enjoy the benefits of special user roles. The customer will be able to login and will be assigned the default user role until the new user role request is approved.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6334860" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Select-User-Role-for-manual-and-auto-approval.png" alt="Select User Role for manual and auto approval" width="798" height="413" /></p>
<h3>Add dropdown to My Account page</h3>
<p>This plugin allows you to display the same user roles dropdown on the My Account page. This is completely optional, given that you may not want to give your user the option of changing their role once it has been assigned.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6334868" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/User-role-dropdown-in-my-account-page-woocommerce.png" alt="User role dropdown in my account page woocommerce" width="856" height="956" /></p>
<h3>Email and notification settings:</h3>
<p>You can customize the following emails and custom messages displayed on My Account page.</p>
<ul>
<li>Pending and declined status messages display on the My Account page under the user roles dropdown.</li>
<li>Email to admin when a new user registers and requests a user role that requires manual approval.</li>
<li>Email to the customer notifying them that a requested user role is awaiting approval.</li>
<li>Email to the customer when a requested user role is approved.</li>
<li>Email to the customer when a requested user role is declined.</li>
</ul>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6334891" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Custom-Messages-on-my-account-page.png" alt="Custom Messages on my account page" width="792" height="429" /></p>
<p>You can enable/disable any email.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6334889" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Email-settings-for-user-roles.png" alt="Email settings for user roles" width="980" height="802" /></p>

Choose User Role at Registration

<p>Add a user role dropdown on the registration form to allow customers select the relevant role during registration.</p>

Groups vs Choose User Role at Registration