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The ultimate digital bouncer for your WordPress membership clubs.
HealthyGrowing
91/100
This plugin provides reliable and flexible access control for user groups without unnecessary bloat.
Active installs
~15,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
4.8★
380 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+29%
Growing fast
114 → 147 installs/day
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Growing fast · +29% in the last year
114/day a year ago→147/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayGroups is widely praised for its simple, free, and flexible access-control capabilities that integrate smoothly with WordPress, though reviewers note no major drawbacks.
What people like
- +Simple and easy to use×2
- +Free with minimal bloat
- +Provides flexible, granular access control for pages, documents and user groups×5
- +Supports flexible grouping and automation via hooks
- +Integrates well with WordPress core features
- +Stable and reliable over years of use×2
Common complaints
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.87★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.80★
- 12%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-08-192025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 380 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-01-23★★★★★Simple access restriction that really worksninjaneen
- 2025-11-16★★★★★Super!kahana1-shot
- 2025-11-07★★★★★Clean simple plug-in that works as expected!mchilson
- 2025-11-07★★★★★Works the way I needed it to!awesomekatherine1-shot
- 2025-09-03★★★★★Quite a nice pluginalexsanetra1-shot
- 2025-09-03★★★★★TopSalty
- 2025-06-20★★★★★Good pluginjrmatson
- 2025-06-12★★★★★Very goodrolito
- 2025-05-31★★★★★Worksjkiske
- 2025-04-18★★★★★recommend this pluginmararsarhan
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
183
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
124
Prior 7-day baseline
196
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
931
Mean release-day peak (30d)
413
Latest day · 2026-06-03(spike)
+47.6%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
16%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.45
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
93%
5★ share in analyzed sample
12%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
-86%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.89 → 4.87★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered