<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

<h2>Customize the Login and Registration Experience</h2>
<p>Smart Registration for WooCommerce includes bundled features to enhance the registration and login process for WooCommerce.</p>
<p>The extension empowers store owners to create custom user registration fields, custom user roles, and user-role selection at registration. After registration, login, or log out, it can redirect users to custom URLs. You can also verify new users’ registrations. For new-user registration approval, you have two options: to accept the new registration request, either automatically or manually.</p>
<h2><b>Custom User Registration Fields</b></h2>
<p>Smart Registration for WooCommerce empowers you to add unlimited fields to the registration form. You can add text fields, date, time, radio buttons, checkboxes, numbering, dropdowns, file uploads, and more. It supports up to 15 custom fields, and you decide whether to make fields optional or required. Custom registration fields can be created easily in a drag and drop view.</p>
<p><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Custom_User_Fields.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-7522440" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Custom_User_Fields.png" alt="Custom User Registration Fields" width="980" height="577" /></a></p>
<h3><b>Key Features Of Custom Registration Fields </b></h3>
<ul>
<li>Add unlimited custom registration form fields.</li>
<li>Allows adding fields to WooCommerce registration forms.</li>
<li>Field data is visible in registration emails and the user’s “My Account” page.</li>
<li>Supports 15 field types.</li>
<li>Drag and drop custom field orders.</li>
<li>Display user roles in the dropdown.</li>
<li>Admins and customers receive an automated email notification.</li>
</ul>
<h3><b>Default User Fields</b></h3>
<p>It consists of ten by-default user fields where you can add a label name or a placeholder with a short description. You can make fields optional or required.</p>
<p><strong>Key Features</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Drag and drop default user fields</li>
<li>Enable field to display on the frontend</li>
<li>Supports up to ten default user fields</li>
</ul>
<h2><b>Redirect After Login, Logout, or Registration</b></h2>
<p>The user redirects to the My Account page by default, but you can also route them to other internal or external links. The admin can set role-based redirection links for users to redirect after login, logout, or registration.</p>
<p><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/web_meteors_smart_registration_redirect_after_login.png"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-7487310 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/web_meteors_smart_registration_redirect_after_login.png" alt="Role based redirect users for WooCommerce" width="980" height="666" /></a></p>
<h3><b>Key features of redirects<br />
</b></h3>
<ul>
<li>Role-based redirection after customer registration.</li>
<li>Redirect users based on their role after user login.</li>
<li>Role-based redirection for logout.</li>
<li>Redirect after login, logout, or registration to specific URLs.</li>
</ul>
<h2><b>Use Google reCAPTCHA</b></h2>
<p>Using Google reCAPTCHA with WooCommerce provides the best verification solution. It is designed with easy settings to enable or disable captcha at required places. Nowadays, the most important concern is the security of any website. reCAPTCHA protects you from spam and unauthorized login attempts. Similarly, it restricts fake registrations and fake guest orders.</p>
<h3><b>Key Features of reCAPTCHA </b></h3>
<ul>
<li>Enable or disable Google reCAPTCHA for the WooCommerce login form.</li>
<li>Enable or disable Google reCAPTCHA for the WooCommerce registration form.</li>
<li>Login user checkout with Google reCAPTCHA.</li>
<li>Protect from unauthorized login attempts.</li>
<li>Stop fake registrations</li>
<li>Use reCAPTCHA for lost passwords</li>
</ul>
<h2><b>Approve New User Registrations</b></h2>
<p>You can approve new user registrations by auto or manual approval. However, methods for manual approvals are secure and effective for fake user accounts. Moreover, you can disable the user accounts for login access without deleting their accounts.</p>
<p><b>Key features of approving new-user registrations</b></p>
<ul>
<li>Allow new user registration auto-approval or manual approval.</li>
<li>Send email notifications to customers after user approval by an admin.</li>
<li>Send email notifications to customers after user disapproval by an admin.</li>
<li>Enable or disable receiving an email by an admin when a new user registered.</li>
<li>Customize statuses for user notification.</li>
</ul>
<h2><b>User Role Options At Registration</b></h2>
<p>You can allow customers to choose their role through a dropdown at the user registration. The chosen roles can be manually approved or auto-approved as set by the admin.</p>
<p><b>Features of user role selection at registration</b></p>
<ul>
<li>User-role selection dropdown field display on the user registration form.</li>
<li>Add customized-role field labels.</li>
<li>Enable or disable options for notifications sent to users about the approval or disapproval of their requested user roles.</li>
<li>Notify users about user-role statuses on the My Account page.</li>
<li>Admin and customers can receive notifications via emails.</li>
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Smart Registration

<p>Smart Registration for WooCommerce provides multiple features such as custom user fields, custom user roles, Google reCaptcha, redirections</p>

Groups vs Smart Registration