Groups Support

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.

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.

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)

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.