Title: Extending Groups/Namespacing
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# Extending Groups/Namespacing

 *  [runofthemill](https://wordpress.org/support/users/runofthemill/)
 * (@runofthemill)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/extending-groupsnamespacing/)
 * Is it possible to extend Groups from functions.php?
 * I want to prevent users from being added to more than 1 group within a specific
   parent group, and am trying to extend the load_users() method, but I get a namespace
   error with the following line:
 * `class TR_Groups_Admin_Users extends Groups_Admin_Users {`
 * I’ve tried `use Groups_Admin_Users;` at the beginning of my file after the file
   namespace, but that doesn’t seem to work.
 * Cheers!
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## Tags

 * [class](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/class/)
 * [extend](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/extend/)
 * [method](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/method/)
 * [namespace](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/namespace/)

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 * Last reply from: [runofthemill](https://wordpress.org/support/users/runofthemill/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/extending-groupsnamespacing/)
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