Community Builder

294 reviews

Get Community Builder (v2.9.3)

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 8.3.10+ and MySQL 8.0.39+, as well as latest Joomla 5.1.4+, 4.4.8+ (or 3.10.18-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 stable and nightly releases of all our add-ons support Joomla 5.1, 5.0, 4.0 and 3.10 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

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Top-Notch Social Tool for Joomla!

Rita Irving (1).
Posted on 29 August 2024

Functionality

Community Builder is packed with awesome features. It's got user profiles, groups, cool social stuff and more. You can do lots with it.

Ease of use

It might take a bit to figure out at first, but once you get the hang of it, it's pretty straightfoward. The control panel is neat and tidy.

Support

This is where Community Builder really shines! Users say the support is amazing, even for the free version.

Documentation

There's lots of info to help you use Community Builder. They've got written guides, videos, forums. Anything I needed is there.

I used this to: I created a local community website for my neighborhood. Yay! :)

Powerful multitool

Dimitris (6).
Posted on 30 November 2021

Functionality

It does all a community platform would do even without its extensions. I have used almost all the extensions and I can say they are powerful

Ease of use

Although it gave me the impression that it wouldn't be easy, I was wrong. I just had to spend a little time to understand how easy it is.

Support

One of a kind! The guys in support are very good, polite and always to the point! Reply to requests within 1 day and sometimes immediately.

Documentation

Everything I have looked for so far, is there. In forums they always provide examples and links to the documentation in order to help users.

I used this to: Developing websites for public communities and private companies that implement user profiles for their employees, customers, suppliers, etc. CB and CBsubs are powerful tools. CB exists for many years because it does things properly. Keep up the good work!

Suburb Support

Kathy Ahrendt (4).
Posted on 18 October 2021

Functionality

CB has a wide variety of add ons that make it a great product. In addition to saving time for the users, updating is easy.

Ease of use

Very user friendly even for novice users. We have been using this extension for over ten years and are always finding something new.

Support

The support has always be top notch. They got us out of a real bind when we upgraded templates. Thanks Nant!

Documentation

Very well designed and easy to use. It contains many examples that translate into real world scenarios. Love the idea of a PDF

I used this to: Our site uses the CB to keep track of users, their cars and to allow other users to email easily. We are working on adding a gallery for photos and other images.

Works Well and Support is Great

Wally Turnbull (7).
Posted on 05 August 2021

Functionality

It works well and has more features than most users will need but there is something for everyone.

Ease of use

Easy to use. Quite intuitive and quickly becomes second-nature tor routine operations. Very transparent to the front end.

Support

In addition to an extensive forum there is personal excellent and fast response to questions not covered in the forum.

Documentation

Very well documented. PDF documentation with many screenshots - almost too much is that is possible.

I used this to: Non-profit group record keeping and interaction. CB allows users to maintain their own records.

Superb Support

ResearchWare Staff (6).
Posted on 29 December 2020

Functionality

Community Builder (CB) is by far the most robust and comprehensive user management system available for Joomla.

Ease of use

While basic uses are very intuitive, more complex uses definitely require reading the documentation or reviewing guidance in the Forums

Support

If your have a paid support level, like Professional or Developer, the support of the forums is excellent. Top notch.

Documentation

The documentation and video tutorials are extensive and comprehensive. The user forums are an additional source of information.

I used this to: Managing wed site user bases on several web sites. It is my "go to" tool for managing any web site user community.

Even More Than a Community Builder

Dave Bishop (51).
Posted on 16 December 2020

Functionality

The number of things you can do with this is only limited by your imagination. It's a beast of an extension with so many tools.

Ease of use

It's pretty straight forward for a web/tech-savvy person. The more functionality you need the more configuration you have to do.

Support

Support is also where this shines. They go well above and beyond to help you. I set up an extremely complex system and they were great.

Documentation

Lots and lots of documentation with videos and a huge forum. Nothing missing here.

I used this to: I set up a complex registration form for an environmental group to collect memberships to protect birds. I exceeded my client's expectations and has worked great for 3 years. You can do just about anything with it related to users and collecting information or more. Superb tool!

Excellent support

Mike (1).
Posted on 14 December 2020

Functionality

Excellent functionality. Does everything I need to run a subscription community.

Ease of use

Excellent ease of use. As a non-coder, I have been able to install and maintain Joomlapolis.

Support

Recently had a significant upgrading issue. Support staff was dynamite and helped diagnose and fix the problem.

Documentation

Excellent online and PDF documentation along with video tutorials. The presenter can be a little dry at times.

I used this to: Been running our site for 5 years on this including CB, CB Paid subs, and Group Jive.

Incredibly flexible and feature rich

Michael Schramm (2).
Posted on 20 November 2020

Functionality

With tons of functionality, I've been able to turn any idea into a reality. Developers will love it.

Ease of use

Easy to set up, but you need a good understanding and maybe developer skills in order to be able to use the full range of functionality.

Support

The support is really amazing. You are never left out in the rain. Comprehensible questions are answered comprehensibly.

Documentation

Very good and extensive. Only for very special functions, e.g. Auto Actions, etc., I would like more use cases and bit simpler explanations.

I used this to: I've been using it for over 10 years for a larger Camper Travel Website and Community.

I recommend this to all developers

Ruslan Stepanov (4).
Posted on 18 November 2020

Functionality

CB makes Joomla to turn into a real pro-instrument to work with users. Able to achieve any goal. From a simple blog to a huge web portal.

Ease of use

Need time for understanding. Hard for normal users. But when you get hit, you can create everything you want. Very many variants for use.

Support

Very fast support. Answers instantly. Some times i think i talk with unhuman minds =)

Documentation

Everything is in place. In the docs and active forum you can find a lot of interesting things that can help you with your needs.

I used this to: I used it for sites, where need some more specific functionality for users like:
1. Educational site.
2. Blogs.
3. News portal.
4. Corporate website.

Exceptional plugin, community from the core.

James Hayes (2).
Posted on 05 June 2020

Functionality

On word. Amazing. Such a powerful tool with what feels like limitless possibilities. If you can think of a function, its there.

Ease of use

For a plugin of this size it is very easy to use, and surprisingly fast when you consider the amount of what it can do.

Support

FAN-TASTIC. Worth paying for membership for this reason alone. Phenomenal support through regularly monitored forums. Excellent.

Documentation

This is your goto research for this package. All the documentation for CB and all plugins is available and very in-depth, perfect.

I used this to: A large community based website with different tiered levels of membership all at different price brackets. Content specific for each tier with buttons working different functions based upon them. A huge networking tool.

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