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.
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.
Groups works great with WooCommerce, so you can make some products only available to members of certain groups.
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.
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.
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.
Define what actions users in particular groups can perform, based on standard WordPress capabilities and custom capabilities provided by plugins.
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.
You can put users into different groups, similar to assigning them to different classes or teams.
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.
You can assign special rights to users based on which group they are a member of.
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:
Access to pages (posts, pages, products and other post types) can be restricted by group.
If access to a page is restricted to one or more groups, only users who belong to one of those groups may view it.
Fully supports custom post types, so that access to post types such as products or events can easily be restricted.
You can add more features with official extensions that further integrate Groups and WooCommerce. Among the extensions in the WooCommerce Marketplace we recommend:
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.
Automatically apply and restrict coupon validity for user groups. Offer exclusive, automatic and targeted discounts for your customers.
The perfect Search Engine helps customers to find and buy products quickly – essential for every WooCommerce store. Supports performance features based on group memberships.
Limit the use of Payment Methods by Group Memberships, Roles, Countries, and Order Amounts.