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 - 8.4 and MySQL 5.6 - 9.5.x (or MariaDB 10.x - 12.x) are prerequisites as well as Joomla 6.x, 5.x, 4.x (or 3.10.
(latest PHP 8.4.14+ and MySQL 8.4.7+, as well as latest Joomla 6.0.0+ and 5.4.0+ 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 5.2, 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

it is good



Posted on 16 May 2020
Functionality
it is very powerful, specially CB Auto Action is very useful. don't use CB without auto action :)
also you need to understand, you can not
Ease of use
more config is easy, but you may want set profile field access to registered only
Support
if you subscribe, they have a good support but not in the deep coding.
Documentation
more of document is old or deprecated and some of features has not any document and you must ask Kyle in their forums.
I used this to: used in my community, i used it's webservice to create user in joomla.
Functionality
I have yet find something functionally I needed to achieve with regards to managing members I have been unable to do using Community Builder
Ease of use
When I initially created the website I was an armature developer and the ease of use has always been outstanding no matter my skill level.
Support
If you are ever unsure on how to achieve something the team at CB are always on hand to guide you through how to achieve what you need.
Documentation
I have always found the documentation to extensive and cover all functionality needed to make you an expert CB power user.
I used this to: I have been running a member focused website for 6 years and CB have been with me all the way ensuring every new idea I have for the website can be achieved with a few tweaks.

Community Builder



Posted on 05 April 2020
Functionality
As a professional member, the Cb component and all plugins and modules fully meet my needs in order to create and animate my community.
Ease of use
With my basics in computer science without being a great computer scientist, I feel comfortable in all the configurations available.
Support
The support is simply great! Each question is answered quickly with a solution. Thanks to the whole team and especially to Kyle.
Documentation
The documentation is complete. Available for download, on the blog and the forum.
I used this to: I use CB to manage an expodential community offering workshops and wall sharing.

Necessary



Posted on 24 December 2019
Functionality
We've been using this great Joomla! component for a dozen years now on several sites for user management. Wonderful!
Ease of use
Intuitive, simple to use and code extensions for. The new update system is very slick.
Support
Documentation
I used this to: Professional associations, churches, sports clubs. We have been using CB for over a dozen years, and have provided development and support for the CBJuice extension.

Powerfull



Posted on 15 December 2019
Functionality
With paid extensions, I can do almost all what I want - automated actions, SQL requests, and so on
Ease of use
Basic uses are easy - advanced settings and Cbuilder substitutions need sometimes more time to manage - but the suport is good
Support
Excellent - quick and very powerfull - they do know Joomla and their system
Documentation
Not perfect - could be improved. But the support is very good, so...
I used this to: Manage a 1200 members teachers non profit organisation - subcription, and yearly congress
Functionality
For the usage as a community website all is on board, nice. But the possibilities of usage go far beyond that. It is amazing.
Ease of use
Not so easy to use. You need some time for understanding. But this is due to the great possibiities and complex component.
Support
With a developer license you get an answer every evening from the main developer, who is very skilled. Very good.
Documentation
Many videos are available, but the doumentation lacks some areas. I would wish a searchable collection of all strings and functions.
I used this to: Building up a comprehensive website with community builder as a base togehter with further components. CB is a realiable tool for a website with even up to 1 mill user. Fantastic spam-security features on board for running a website savely.
Functionality
CB does everything we want in terms of managing our club membership and can easily be integrated with other extensions.
Ease of use
Easy to install and set up but reading the manual first makes it much easier to understand the concepts.
Support
Cannot fault the support at all. Quick, clear responses and lots of patience with newbies.
Documentation
Comprehensive user guide, lots of video tutorials and case studies.
I used this to: Managing the membership records of a club, including subscriptions management.
Functionality
I have used Community Builder for several years. I have tried other competing components and have ended up being disappointed.
Ease of use
There is definitely a learning curve, but there is lots of documentation and the forum is very helpful.
Support
I usually try to figure things out on my own, but when I needed help I have received it.
Documentation
This is provided through a pdf user guide, the online forum, and video tutorials.
I used this to: I am currently using this on several clients sites: Clubs, groups, and small businesses.
Functionality
Very flexible with many complex functions, built with a long history since 2006
Ease of use
I think it is necessary to read the documentation before using this component, it is not too complicated but quite detailed and optional
Support
Documentation
I used this to: Besides JomSocial, this is the first component I think of when I need to build Community Joomla Websites
Functionality
It allows me to add the fields I need as a Treasurer of a very small group. However, suddenly the Text Field Validation has gottoo complex.
Ease of use
Mosty its a doddle, but it is getting more difficult.
Support
The forums are all paid for .. so none is possible
Documentation
It misses out all the difficult but necessary things .... like making Post Codes in capital letters and numbers with one space only
I used this to: Running a membership of 100 people on Accountability Scotland. Adding bespoke fields is easy, except for validation ...
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Community Builder

Version:
2.11.0
Developer:
CB Team at Joomlapolis.com
Last updated:
Jan 28 2026
3 months ago
Date added:
Mar 05 2006
License:
GPLv2 or later
Type:
Free download
Includes:
c m p
Compatibility:
J3 J4 J5 J6
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Uses Joomla! Update System

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