Groups is an efficient and powerful solution, providing group-based user membership management, group-based capabilities and content access control.
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.
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.
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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 🙂
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I needed a simple solution for member only pages and this plug-in works great!
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
| WordPress | 6.7+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
For the full changelog see changelog.txt.
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