The information below is relevant only with the legacy access control mode remnant from Groups 1.x – also see the
Migration Guide for details on this and how to upgrade to the current Groups 2.x access control model.
Below we are giving an example using a group named
Premium and its associated capability
premium. Note that you can use any group and capability name, we just use
Premium here because it underlines a pretty common use case.
2.1 The Quick Way
This is the
recommended way. It generates our
Premium group on the fly while you create your protected content.

Next publish your post and the
Access restrictions will show that this post is protected so that members of the
Premium group only can view it.
2.2 Step by Step
If you have already created a protect post using the quick way above, you can skip this section and head on to
3. Set up a Premium Membership Product. Another example is provided under
4. Set up a page for “Tutorials” members only

Go to
Groups > Options and choose the
premium capability under
Access restrictions > Capabilities and click
Save at the end of the page. You will now be able to protect your posts with the
premium capability. Only members of the
Premium group will have access to these.
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Go to
Pages > Add New to create a new page:

In the
Access restrictions tab enter
Tutorials so that the
Tutorials group and capability are created automatically and click
Publish to create the page.
This page is now only accessible to members of the Premium group.
If you want to restrict access to a page based on an existing group, select it under Access restrictions.

For more options to protect your content please refer to the
Groups Plugin and
Groups Documentation.