Just need help with getting started with the basics!

I’m sorry.. but even though everyone says this plug-in is easy to use.. I just can’t get my head around how to use it. I’ve read the instructions, and I have spent hours trying to play with it.. but I think I need an exact example to figure this out.

Here is my setup and my questions…

The Main site is for general public, so no restrictions will added for those pages, and therefor they won’t need a group assigned to them.

So the ‘members’ wanting to access a ‘members only’ area will have to login. How does the login work? Are they meant to login through wp-admin? Or am I supposed to create a login page myself?? (And if so.. how will that work????)

Ok, so once they are logged in.. it appears that all are automatically added to the registered group, right? I can give the registered group the rights to view the main ‘members only’ menu page (that will have links to each of the more restricted members pages.)

I want the heirachy like this:

• all registered members

• cub scouts

• cub parents

• cub leaders

• committee

So the ‘registered’ uses can only see the members-only menu page. Then the ‘cub scouts’ group can see the menu page, and it’s own scout page. Then the ‘cub parents’ can see the menu page, scouts page and their own parents page, etc..

So I will have 5 groups. Will each group have the ‘groups_read_post’ capability assigned? I tried creating the groups each with ‘groups_read_post’, but also their own capability name (eg: cub scouts had a ‘cub-scout’ capability created and assigned). Is this how I am supposed to do it?

So on a test page, I tried to use the ‘access restrictions’ section on the page. When I clicked in the top box, it only allowed me to select one capability: ‘groups_read_post’. (Is that because that is the only default standard capability I gave to any of the groups?) When I clicked on that capability, the box showed this: “groups_read_post(Registered, Cub Scouts, Cub Parents, Cub Leaders, Committee)”. So how does that work? If I wanted this page to only be accessible by the Group Leaders and Committee members, it doesn’t appear to let me split that out?

I am totally confused!!!! I am obviously not setting this up correctly.

Is there a YouTube tutorial out there by chance.. that walks you through a complete set-up (from start to finish) with several children layers, and several pages being restricted by different groups, so I can see how it all comes together???

At this point, I just want the groups to view the page they are allowed to see, and maybe upload and download some files. (Which I hope to be able to do with the ‘File Away’ plugin).

Any guidance will be greatly appreciated!

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