Introduction

Social Web, Communities, User Management, Membership & Subscriptions, Teams

Community Builder (CB) is an extremely flexible and robust social networking solution for Joomla. CB has a huge user base, a long history and a great future.


Social websites go far beyond Facebook look-alikes and CB has literally hundreds of built-in features and can be extended with extra (free or commercial) add-ons from the CB Team and other parties that will help you realize your very own - tailored to your specific needs - social networking website.

The hundreds of built-in features will help you accomplish the following:

  • Gather important for your use-case profile data during or after membership registration
  • Delegate new member sign-up approvals and proper behavior reporting with extended workflows and frontend moderation
  • Configure awesome looking mobile ready profile pages for your members
  • Promote interaction between your members with configurable and searchable user lists
  • Provide powerful and engaging profile applications to your members
  • Continuously motivate and engage your members with great built-in Joomla, Kunena (forum), K2 (content) and uddeIM (private messaging) integrations
  • Keep your members involved with personalized and targeted ad-hoc mass mailings
  • Manage everything from your mobile device or tablet

Community Builder allows you to:

  • Create profiles for your members
  • Identify users with first/middle/last name fields
  • Add avatar photos to profiles
  • Add unlimited CB fields to your profiles (text, image, textarea, html editor, integer, checkbox, multi-select checkbox, drop-down, multi-select drop-down, radio, date, email, weblinks - more available with add-ons)
  • Use Custom HTML fields to put customized HTML code in profiles
  • Configure fields to be read-only, for profile viewing, displayed with title, to appear on registration form, etc
  • Control of core fields (email, username, etc), and ajax email and username checkers
  • Custom field validations
  • Organize fields in tabs that can be displayed in different built-in profile positions
  • Create extended registration form
  • Allow login using email address and password
  • Manage registration and profile image approval in frontend with CB Workflow module
  • Create unlimited CB User lists with powerful searching
  • Let members connect with each other (mutual consent or one way)
  • Display # of connections on profiles
  • Show connection path between profile viewer and owner up to 6th degree
  • Moderate your community with reporting, banning,
  • Let members interact (using email or private messaging)
  • Built-in private messaging, as well as integration with uddeIM messaging
  • Built-in integration with Joomla articles (show article links in author profiles)
  • Built-in integration with Kunena forum

Joomlapolis hosts free community driven support forums.

Optionally, Professional or Developer memberships can be purchased giving rights to same/next business day guaranteed forum support and access to many additional optional add-on plugins and privileges.

PHP 7.4 - 8.3 and MySQL 5.6 - 8.1.x (or MariaDB 10.x - 11.x) are prerequisites as well as Joomla 5.1, 5.0, 4.x or 3.10.
(latest PHP 8.3.0+ and MySQL 8.0.36+, as well as latest Joomla 5.1.0+, 4.4.4+ (or 3.10.15-elts+) are recommended).
Earlier CB version 2.6.4 supports PHP 5.6.40-8.0.x and MySQL 5.1 - 8.0.x as well as Joomla 3.x and 4.0.
Our current nightly releases of all our add-ons support Joomla 5.0 and 5.1 natively, also without the compatibility plugin!

Please do not use the reviews to post support issues. Use our free community forums or paid support system at https://www.joomlapolis.com/support

Functionality
Upgrade Joomla to a powerful manager system. Professional membership allow you add functionality: Ajax edition, Substitutions & other fields
Ease of use
Basic conf is very easy, but with a basic knowledge of php+html you can take advantage of their huge possibilities: HTML, Code & Query field
Support
The best support I've ever met. They always answer in hours with the solution, not only doubts but they help me to develop my own code.
Documentation
Manual is very complete for a basic configuration, and they have a lot of sample videos in youtube to understand how complex plugins work.
I used this to: I use it a lot: an school to manage relationship between teachers, parents and students with different privileges. In a job offer web site for a company where applicants can subscribe and maintain their own CV. In a management system for a summer camp. In an Old Students web site

Awesome Extension



Posted on 10 March 2016
Functionality
Very good
Ease of use
Easy to use
Support
Professional
Documentation
Pretty well

Simply Awesome



Posted on 08 March 2016
Functionality
Sky is the limit when it comes to functions. To me Joomla without CB is unthinkable. CB Substitutions (using conditionis) is essential to me
Ease of use
Can be as simple or as sophisticated as you like. Easy to install and get running.
Support
THE BEST support I have ever gotten online. I am on a Professional Subscription.
Documentation
Excellent, although haven't had to look at the PDF docs in years. Looked at it initially (6 years ago). Now the forums are where I look.
I used this to: Used it on many installs. For both social sites, and internal staff sites, documentation, supporting clients, (along with other extensions).
Functionality
Very good.
Ease of use
Easy
Support
Not needed
Documentation
Well
I used this to: To build online community

Perfect



Posted on 25 February 2016
Functionality
Very good functionality
Ease of use
Easy to use
Support
Not needed
Documentation
Detailed documentation
I used this to: To build a community website.

This is a must have extension



Posted on 06 February 2016
Functionality
Community Builder has to be the most mature and robust extension I have ever used. I almost always include it in a membership site build
Ease of use
Learning curve is moderate, but a highly active forum and docs leave you in capable hands. You're never to far away from a solution!
Support
Exceptional! Highly responsive always eager to help, even if the issue is caused by another extension!
Documentation
Superb documentation. The manual is over 100 pages!
I used this to: Recommend to clients looking for enhanced membership or user account functionality. If clients are looking for this feature, CB is at the top of the list. The extension is super-stable.

Excelente Herramienta



Posted on 03 February 2016
Functionality
Muy versatil y adecuable a cada necesidad
Ease of use
Facil de instalar, así como los lenguajes
Documentation
Encuentras toda la documentación en el sitio oficial o si lo prefieres googleando
I used this to: lo he usado para varios tipos de paginas, desde sitios de grupos cerrados, hasta paginas abiertas al publico.
Functionality
The Baisc Programm is very usable, comfortable to install, supplies a wide range - Amateurs understand it in few minutes
Ease of use
The intellligent system allows User to build a personal profile-system in "fields" with wide flexibilitys -intelligent prepared
Support
The CB community is very engaged in the forum beneth the clear and prompt supportteam
Documentation
A lot of clear written documents on the website and userfriendly guides assists well, a good system is installed f. documenting the updates
I used this to: several websites with and without communitys
Functionality
A huge variety of functions, you probably won't use them all :)
Ease of use
You need some time to learn how to use it.
Support
Very fast support. +
Documentation
Very detailed and well written documentation.
I used this to: Tennis community website.

Simply Fantastic



Posted on 08 December 2015
Functionality
CB Subs (free and paid) just works. I am a fan of this component and the people behind it. It's running three non-profit orgs, flawlessly.
Ease of use
Insanely comprehensive and intuitive. Works, works, works!
Support
There is not score high enough for the support staff. I cannot imagine how crazy it must be and yet they are polite and sooo helpful.
Documentation
The manual is 600+ pages. It's incredible to see and experience. Plus they have great videos to help if you need more. Great docs.
I used this to: I have three non-profits running this in both free and paid version. One non-profit has 3,000 members. Going on two years without any major issues. And that particular org was stuck in J1.5. I updated to J2.5x and am about to go to J3.x without fear of having issues with CB.
CBSubs
Paid download

CBSubs

By CB Team at Joomlapolis.com
Community Builder extensions
CBSubs is a powerful, extremely flexible and field-proven paid subscriptions membership management solution for any Joomla website using Community Builder. Add unlimited subscription plans, sell merchandise items and accept donation on your website. Great solution for a broad range of e-commerce use case websites including (but not limited to): Traditional Membership clubs, Download clubs, Custo...

Community Builder

Version:
2.9.1
Developer:
CB Team at Joomlapolis.com
Last updated:
Apr 30 2024
2 weeks ago
Date added:
Mar 05 2006
License:
GPLv2 or later
Type:
Free download
Includes:
c m p
Compatibility:
J3 J4 J5
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