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Groups

Groups is an efficient and powerful solution, providing group-based user membership management, group-based capabilities and content access control.

By itthinx·Access·Free
4.8(380 reviews)
·10K+ active installs·Updated 1 week ago
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As of April 2026, Groups is a WordPress access plugin with 10K+ active installations and a 4.8/5 rating from 380 reviews. It has been downloaded 991K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.7+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Downloads are down 68% this week. Support resolution rate: 100%. Top alternative: Loginizer.

4.8/5380 reviews
10K+active installs
100%resolved
14 yearssince 2012

Overview

What is Groups?

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.

Why use it?

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.

What it Does

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.

Ease of Use

The Groups plugin works w…

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Ratings & Reviews

4.8380 reviews
5 ★
346
4 ★
21
3 ★
4
2 ★
2
1 ★
7

Recent Reviews

Simple access restriction that really works
by ninjaneen·2 months ago·1 reply

I’ve been using this plugin for a number of years on our documentation website. I create documentation for all of my clients in one single website, and then I restrict access to the pages so that each client can only see the pages they’re supposed to see. I love the simplicity. Thank you so much 🙂

Super!
by kahana·4 months ago

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Clean simple plug-in that works as expected!
by mchilson·5 months ago·1 reply

I needed a simple solution for member only pages and this plug-in works great!

Works the way I needed it to!
by awesomekatherine·5 months ago·1 reply

Had to build a seperate login area for client to access important documents. Used Groups to set up a group of users who could access these documents. Plugin was easy to use, and functions beautifully.

Quite a nice plugin
by alexsanetra·7 months ago·1 reply

Quite a nice plugin

Download Trends

Today: 185Yesterday: 257This week: 2KPeriod total: 90K

Compatibility

WordPress6.7+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4
PHP7.4+ required

Version Adoption

Other
47.1%
v4.1
22.3%
v3.11
13.3%
v4.0
12.2%
v2.18
5.1%

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

For the full changelog see changelog.txt.

View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

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Plugin Info
Version
4.1.0
Last Updated
Mar 25, 2026
WP Requires
6.7+
Tested Up To
6.9.4
PHP Requires
7.4+
Active Installs
10K+
Downloads
991K+
Added
Jan 12, 2012
Business
Free

Tags

accessgroupsmembermembershipaccess-control

Developer

I
itthinx
30 plugins0.0M+ total installs
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