In WordPress, the user permissions are defined by Roles and their deriving Capabilities. This Role-based model allows the Administrator – which is also a role – to determine the privileges assigned to each user. These privileges, in turn, are expressed through capabilities where each one of them determines a specific permission for the user. Furthermore, […]
Tag Archives | group
How to create a time-limited Membership Product
In this post we will show you how to create a Membership product in WooCommerce using Groups and Groups for WooCommerce. The customer(s) will become members of the Premium Club group for one year after buying this product. A preview of the Membership product Please note that the setup of the Membership product is the […]
1-Click Memberships with Groups for WordPress
The Groups plugin allows users to become a member of a group by simply clicking a button. It provides a convenient shortcode for that purpose. At the end of this article, we will also look at alternatives to shortcodes that you can use in a template. Let’s understand a simple use case where such memberships […]
WordPress Support Session
It’s nice to see that people are working with Groups also over the weekend! We’ve had a few requests related to Groups which I’ve attended today and I wanted to summarize here: Groups PayPal – Publish GPLv3 Open Source on GitHubIncompatibility with BuddyBossPost Read restriction and Cron job The first one is related to a […]
WordPress Support Session
I began today’s support session by directing a user to the Referrals section of Affiliates where he could easily view referrals made by affiliates. This was geared towards helping him identify all the referrals made by specific affiliates. I then moved on to an interesting case in which the client wanted to use Groups to […]
Users managing WordPress Groups
A recent request we have received is related to managing things with the Groups plugin for WordPress. It touches on an interesting and important set of functions that would be great to have: Users creating groups?Pre-install question:Is it possible to allow all users to create groups and manage who goes into those groups with this […]
How to protect Amazon S3 Files with WordPress for Members
Do you manage or sell digital assets? Do you handle confidential documents and media? This tutorial is for you, if you want to use the affordable Amazon S3 (Amazon Simple Storage Service) to host sensitive files and serve them to a select group of users on WordPress. It goes without saying that Amazon S3 provides […]
How to use WordPress to provide Confidential Documents
Leveraging the right Tools to provide Stakeholders with Access to Confidential Documents and Digital Assets Showcasing project reports on your website for stakeholders to view, is one of the best ways to demonstrate your ability to attain project goals and objectives. However, in many cases, you want to protect your original content, digital assets, ideas, […]
How to sell Online Courses with free and paid Content – Part 2
In Part 1, we described how we can structure the course content and restrict specific sections of it to members of the Premium group. In this second part we will monetize our course content via a membership product using WooCommerce and the Groups WooCommerce extension. A preview of the Membership Product Once a customer buys […]
How to sell Online Courses with free and paid Content – Part 1
You are looking for a simple way to sell your online courses, where each of these courses consists of textual content, pictures and videos all in the same post. Here’s a tutorial in two parts that teaches you how. A preview of the course page where everyone can see the free content we provide. A call […]
New Import and Export Extension for Groups
Groups Import Export is an extension for Groups, providing import and export facilities. Import Users : Users can be imported and assigned to groups in bulk from a text file. Export Users : Users can be exported in bulk, including all users or users that belong to specific groups. This extension is now available in […]
Restricting access to comments in WordPress
Sometimes there is the need to restrict who can post or read comments on a site. Here is an easy answer to questions like … How can I limit who is allowed to post a comment? How can I restrict who is allowed to read comments? If you need to limit product reviews to customers […]
New Groups Extensions
Groups Forums – Provides a powerful and yet light-weight forum system for WordPress sites. Groups Jigoshop is a WordPress plugin that allows to sell memberships and subscriptions with Groups and Jigoshop. Groups 404 Redirect – This plugin redirects 404’s caused by hits on pages that are protected by Groups.
Groups Notifications
The new Groups Notifications plugin has been released. This is a free extension to Groups and adds notification features: notify the site admin when a user has joined a group notify the site admin when a user has left a group notify the user after joining a group notify the user after leaving a group