A bit confused, please explain…

  • HaloPinay

    (@halopinay)


    9 years, 11 months ago

    I see that Groups is not the same as Roles. Users can have Roles AND be in Groups. However, I noticed that capabilities can be applied or removed to Roles or Groups.

    Firstly, I’m confused about how Groups grants and restricts access. Is the site otherwise public unless content is specifically restricted? Or is the whole site locked down by default and we have to grant access?

    The reason this came up is I noticed my Role=Administrators we’re in Group=Registered by default, which limited some things (seeing a new post type on my admin menu for example). In a screenshot I saw someone made a Superuser Group that assured access to everything. Yet as far as content goes, it’s about restriction using custom capabilities like Basic, Premium, etc. Can someone explain to me how all my ROLES can have the SAME capabilities as they had before installing groups?

    Also, I was using it with WooCommerce and thinking of Upgrading to Pro for everything (if I can get it working…) This is my goal.

    I want to have a PUBLIC SITE with the normal Roles having their normal capabilities. Then I would like to have 5 kinds of Memberships.

    Subscriber(Role)/Registered(Group) = FREE (not a virtual product), same as public access except they have a profile.

    Subscriber(Role)/Member(Group) = $1 Woocommerce virtual product, with special access to what’s hidden in short-codes across site.

    Subscriber(Role)/Wallpapers(Group) = $1 Woocommerce virtual product, with special access to Wallpaper category only.

    Subscriber(Role)/Gifts(Group) = $1 Woocommerce virtual product, with special access to 1 page.

    Subscriber(Role)/Gifts(Group) = Free Woocommerce virtual product, with exclusive access to a custom post type.

    It’s just gotten very confusing because before I even can look into making groups and access areas, I’m stumbling around just getting normal capabilities back to acting normally.

    Any insight from ANYONE would be a big help. I read all of the documentation but I’m still confused– and I’m USUALLY really great at WordPress. :/

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/groups/

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  • jeremymuckel

    (@jeremymuckel)

    9 years, 9 months ago

    With groups, everything is public unless you restrict access. You can do this pretty easily however.

    If you create a group called “blue_members”, create a GROUP capability named the same thing, add that capability to the group, and include that capability in the access restrictions settings in the group options, you will see a access restriction metabox on the post/page edit/create screens. If you select the blue group her, then add some users to the “blue_members” group, only those users will be able to see the post/page, in addition to site administrators.

    Also, the “Registered” group is there by default and cannot be removed due to how Groups is programmed.

    I cannot comment on WooCommerce with this plugin, but it seems like since the only roles you need are subscribers, you should be able to accomplish what you want using Group shortcodes. Take a look here: http://docs.itthinx.com/document/groups/access-control/content-section/

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