Title: [Plugin: User Access Manager] Manually adding users to groups
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: User Access Manager] Manually adding users to groups

 *  Resolved [sfhd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sfhd/)
 * (@sfhd)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-user-access-manager-manually-adding-users-to-groups/)
 * Hi,
 * that’s a great plugin, but I won’t be able to use it for my site until it is 
   possible to add/delete users from groups independently of their WP-role. (More
   precisely, what I need are groups that correspond to different and partially 
   overlapping subsets of the class of authors.)
 * Do you plan to add this feature in the near future? If yes, that would be fantastic!
   If not, please reconsider… 🙂 At the moment, I use ‘Page Security by Contexture’
   instead, but I’d prefer to use ‘User Access’ since it also applies to categories.
 * Thanks & greetings!
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-access-manager/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-access-manager/)

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 *  Plugin Author [gm_alex](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gm_alex/)
 * (@gm_alex)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-user-access-manager-manually-adding-users-to-groups/#post-1717354)
 * You can use user groups independently of WP-roles. You have to unset the role
   affiliation at the user groups.
 *  Thread Starter [sfhd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sfhd/)
 * (@sfhd)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-user-access-manager-manually-adding-users-to-groups/#post-1717409)
 * Thanks a lot for the quick help! Somehow I thought that had to choose one of 
   the roles for each group… didn’t try it out without one! 🙂
 *  [twedigteam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/twedigteam/)
 * (@twedigteam)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-user-access-manager-manually-adding-users-to-groups/#post-1717617)
 * So on this note, would you just change a role from say “Editor” to “—no role 
   for this site—” from within the User Groups menu? Or can you leave the role as“
   Editor” and just set User Group at the bottom?
 *  [droidzone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/droidzone/)
 * (@droidzone)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-user-access-manager-manually-adding-users-to-groups/#post-1717865)
 * I’m still having the same issue with the latest plugin. I’m not able to figure
   out where exactly I can add a user to my user group. I see add by ip. But I want
   to add by their registered userid.
 *  [oneklc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oneklc/)
 * (@oneklc)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-user-access-manager-manually-adding-users-to-groups/#post-1717871)
 * Yeah a bit confusing at first.
    Perhaps should be added to faq.
 * UAM–>Manage user groups –> Role affiliation –> unchecked
 * eg) When creating a group make sure role affiliation is unchecked.
 * Then go edit a specif user.
    Bottom of page under User groups menus. select which
   groups user should belong to.

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