It can't get anymore simple than this. One of the easiest ways to keep your joomla site up to date. I agree with the post below. This should be included in the core of joomla 1.6. Great job and a donation will be coming your way soon.

My biggest hang up with community builder is it’s rigid out-dated layout using tables. I know some prefer to uses nested but it makes for a nightmare if you want to do something simple like remove the spacing around the profile image.

I spent countless hours trying to configure it via hacks and CSS and then I just gave up and considered using jomsocial. The s 150 price tag was a bit steep and given that I was going to make an addon their documentation is very sparse and limited. Then I ran into this very handy extension and it was well worth the 20 USD that I paid for it. I did have some problems at first but that was because I didn’t read the tutorial all the way.

To save people time the future you have to hide your tabs by putting them in the not_on_profile_ postion in the tabs manger. If you follow the instructions on the documentation link you can’t lose. I’m not suppried that community builder hasn’t done soothing like this to being with. If you are creating a new site and considering community builder YOU MUST USE THIS EXTENSION!!!! I know community builder has a my community template but this blows it out of the water and you can create many profile type. I haven’t checked that part out yet because I don’t have a need for it. Keep up the good work!!!!

This component is still it's it beta stage. I had issues installing it for the first time because of the update feature. I feel it wasn't clearly stated. The fact that this component is free is incomparable. It could compete directly with community builder but there are some drawbacks with using this component over community builder.

1. I could not find anywhere to make profiles public or where i can make member list a menu item.
2. There are a limited number of "Applications" to plug into this component and the ones on there main page didn't seem to download at the moment. I think this is more due to it being a new component and website as well. In the future I'm sure there will be more apps.

3. the syncing option seems to be displayed in the backend but the buttons don't work.

4. No good tutorials for extending their framework. i don't consider this to much of a drawback seeing as community builder makes you pay for there's.


Some of the advantages to using this component are:

1. You can get it up and running in a relativity short amount of time.

2. Not to many things to configure in the backend as with community builder.

3. It has a facebook binder!!! This is a huge plus.

4. the frontend is sweet looking you can't compare. To get community builder to look anything like this would take weeks of tweaking.

Overall i think this is a very good start. Being a developer my self I know a lot of work was put into this component and giving it away for free shows a lot of love and commitment.

This is a good module but it wasn't necessarily customizable but it is simple. It didn't allow me to add a module suffix like most do. I had to add this snippet of code to the mod_simplepaypal.xml.
other than that small hurdle it's a great module.

Given that this component is free I think that's it's pretty good. I have an idiot client who didn't have an idea of what he wanted. I think this will do the job.

This is probably the simplest way to allow users to browse your site in different languages using the power of google. Very Useful module!

I have been looking for a module that would embed a nice flash player. The code is straight forward to and I was able to customize to my needs. i advise the developer to update the xml file to let users be able to apply a module suffix. Other than that this things rocks

This is a good component to use however i do think it's a little bad that they put ads in the backend. but you can remove the iframe in the backend and the icon in the front if you know basic html. I provide donations to the free extensions i use however i don't like the fact that they try and use ads to generate revenue. I think this is not in the spirit of open source