Title: Groups Support
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Groups Support

 *  [WPSeeker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpseeker/)
 * (@wpseeker)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/groups-support/)
 * Any plans on adding support for groups as well?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/groups/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/groups/)
 * Thanks
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/restrict-user-access/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/restrict-user-access/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Joachim Jensen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/intoxstudio/)
 * (@intoxstudio)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/groups-support/#post-5907943)
 * I am open to suggestions! But what are the advantages of groups over user roles?
   Other than a user can belong to many groups but only have 1 role.
 *  Thread Starter [WPSeeker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpseeker/)
 * (@wpseeker)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/groups-support/#post-5907946)
 * But that is a major advantage. 🙂 I use roles together with groups. It doesn’t
   make sense to create a whole new user role just to give someone access to a specific
   piece of content. But by creating groups you can easily do that.
 * Groups allows you to have much more granular permissions for each role. You can
   restrict some content on a page to a specific role, and then restrict and divide
   it down even further to members of different groups within that role so each 
   group see something different.
 * Trying to accomplish the same thing with roles just doesn’t make sense because
   you end up with so many duplications of the same role, except for some minor 
   difference, just so you can create more granular permissions.
 *  Thread Starter [WPSeeker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpseeker/)
 * (@wpseeker)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/groups-support/#post-5907952)
 * What would be great if you could have in your shortcode place to specify a role
   AND a group or groups.
 * You could then get really granular and choose a specific role and just specific
   groups within that specific role.
 * Maybe you can have an AND/OR option. ie Show it to this role OR members of this
   group(s) – or Show it to this role and only to members of this specific group(
   s)
 *  Plugin Author [Joachim Jensen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/intoxstudio/)
 * (@intoxstudio)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/groups-support/#post-5907954)
 * I do agree with your points and will look into it.
 * Could be awesome if I could integrate it with BuddyPress Member Types or other
   plugins as well.
 * One thing I have thought of is making “hierarchical” authorization, e.g. if using
   groups, users in the “Gold” group would also be able to see content restricted
   to the “Silver” group.
 * As the plugin is pretty new and I do not really have a roadmap, all feedback 
   is very welcome. I pretty much just wanted to see if I could leverage the “context
   engine” from Content Aware Sidebars.

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