Title: Align with wordpress roles
Last modified: June 27, 2019

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# Align with wordpress roles

 *  Resolved [joefridaywebmaster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mshragesnetnet/)
 * (@mshragesnetnet)
 * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/align-with-wordpress-roles/)
 * We have a need to align our use of extra wordpress roles and itthinx groups plugin.
   We have roles be use in our sidebar menu and groups being used in wordpress users
   and pages. We need to continue to be able to access and edit roles as well as
   groups in wordpress users and wordpress pages (probably posts as well). Is there
   an extension or setting. I’m missing or another way to accomplish this alignment?
 * Otherwise, I am requesting a new feature of groups to implement the alignment
   by an option setting and changes to the respective pages (wordpress users and
   wordpress edit pages/posts) to return the role features and add the groups editing.
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   to see the link]_

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 *  Thread Starter [joefridaywebmaster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mshragesnetnet/)
 * (@mshragesnetnet)
 * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/align-with-wordpress-roles/#post-11679615)
 * We have a need to align our use of extra wordpress roles and the itthinx groups
   in the itthinx plugin. We have roles being used in our sidebar menu and groups
   being used in the wordpress users page and the wordpress page edit content page.
   We need to continue to be able to access and edit wordpress roles as well as 
   itthinx groups in wordpress users profile and wordpress edit content pages/posts.
   Is there an extension or setting I’m missing or another way to accomplish this
   alignment?
 * If not, I am requesting a new feature of the itthinx groups plugin to implement
   an approach to the alignment by an option setting and changes to the respective
   pages (wordpress users profile and wordpress edit pages/posts) to return the 
   wordpress role features and add the groups editing features instead of replacing
   wordpress roles.
 * Otherwise, a setting to allow wordpress roles to be managed exactly in alignment
   with itthinx groups would be a highly valuable solution as well.
 *  Plugin Author [Kento](https://wordpress.org/support/users/proaktion/)
 * (@proaktion)
 * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/align-with-wordpress-roles/#post-11690675)
 * Hi,
 * You seem to confuse an aspect of Groups. It does not replace WordPress roles,
   these continue to work as usual.
 * For the part where you would like to synchronize user roles with corresponding
   groups, this plugin assigns newly registered users to groups named after the 
   role(s) – it will create the groups if they don’t exist: [https://github.com/itthinx/groups-role-registration](https://github.com/itthinx/groups-role-registration)
 * Note that it will not apply this to existing users, you would need to do this
   using the bulk features. It’s very easy though, please see the notes on bulk 
   actions here: [http://docs.itthinx.com/document/groups/memberships/](http://docs.itthinx.com/document/groups/memberships/)
 * I would certainly recommend to review why you would want to have a direct mapping
   between roles and groups, in most cases I have seen, it wasn’t even necessary.
   Feel free to explain further.
 * Cheers

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 * Last reply from: [Kento](https://wordpress.org/support/users/proaktion/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/align-with-wordpress-roles/#post-11690675)
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