The Groups addon lets you and your members create groups, join them, and keep content for the people in them.
Group privacy
Each group is one of three kinds:
- Public: anyone can see the group, and any logged-in user can join straight away.
- Private: anyone can see the group and ask to join, but a group moderator or admin has to approve them. See Moderating group members.
- Hidden: only members can see the group, and it isn’t listed in the directory. People join when a site admin adds them, or when they accept an invitation. See Inviting members to a group.
Group roles
Members of a group have one of three roles:
- Admin: edits the group, removes members, invites people to hidden groups, exports the member list, and approves or rejects requests to join.
- Moderator: approves or rejects requests to join.
- Member: belongs to the group.
Whoever creates a group from the front end becomes its admin. Site admins change roles in the dashboard; see Managing group members.
Where groups appear
- Group pages have an About tab and a Members tab, plus a Moderation tab for moderators and admins, and a Tools tab for admins.
- The group directory lists public and private groups: see Displaying a directory of groups.
- Profiles get a Groups tab listing the groups the user belongs to. On your own profile it includes hidden groups.
Next steps
- Creating a new group: by site admins, or from the front end by users with the right role
- Editing a group
- Inviting members to a group
- Managing group members
- Restricting content to group members
- Allow users to join groups from the registration forms
- Changing the name of the group object: if “Group” doesn’t fit your site, call them teams, clubs or organizations instead
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