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, […]
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WordPress and WooCommerce Compatibility Requirements – June 2023
As of this month, we are updating relevant WordPress plugins and WooCommerce extensions to meet the following minimum version requirements and version compatibilities: WordPress 6.2 compatible WooCommerce 7.8 compatible PHP 8.x compatible WooCommerce HPOS compatible Minimum WordPress 6.0 required Minimum WooCommerce 7.4 required Minimum PHP 7.2 required Our first new update to cover these is […]
Customer Members Club with Discount Privileges
You are an online store owner that wishes to create a members-only club for its customers. The purpose of this club is to reward its members with discounts. Access to the club is granted through an annual paid membership. Privileged customers are eligible for a discount on the shop This setup consists of two parts. […]
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 […]
Feedback we love and good Ideas
While attending several requests related to our plugins on WordPress, I was delighted to see new awesome feedback and rating on our Groups plugin and the support we provide for it: Excellent support – I have to say, these things provide a huge motivation to me and everyone involved in making the Groups ecosystem better […]
WordPress Support Session
During my session, I responded to a user’s request in which he mentioned observing wrong redirects as soon as his users logged out of groups to which they belonged. More precisely, he mentioned observing permanent redirects (301) and temporal redirects (302). Although this behavior isn’t common in Groups, considering Groups typically only yields 404s and […]
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 […]
WordPress Support Session
Today I’ve attended to a few things as part of our regular WordPress support sessions, this time it was really nice to see two new 5* ratings users of the Groups plugin provided: What I needed to enhance securityElegant way of grouping your customers/members It’s really awesome to read about the use cases, not only […]
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 […]