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

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.

Great extension



Posted on 30 September 2015
Functionality
the team is always striving to improve functionality and always delivers
Ease of use
pretty easy to use, considering the amount of features
Support
great support (i have a paid support plan membership)
Documentation
extensive!
I used this to: many sites (most all that require a user function)
Functionality
ενισχύσει τέλεια το Joomla για να επιτρέψει την ανάπτυξη ενός web site της κοινότητας
Ευκολία στη χρήση
Ease of use
Τα μενού ans στοιχεία διαμόρφωσης σαφώς οργανωμένη, και εύκολο στη χρήση.
Υποστήριξη
Support
Η υποστήριξη είναι verty ανταποκρίνεται και aswer είναι 'πάντοτε πολύ σαφής και χρήσιμη
Documentation
Η τεκμηρίωση είναι σαφής, πλήρης και καλογραμμένη.
I used this to: ??? site ????????? ??? ??? WEBRADIO.
Functionality
There is everything a community-based website could dream of and some more exotic functionalities
Ease of use
Very easy, if you have any kind of difficulty you can always ask to the support and they will always help you the best they can
Support
As mentionned above, great support and fast answers despite the time delay between the countries.
Documentation
Very easy to find doc. If you want an overview or tutorials check on youtube the tutorials (type communnity builder 2.0).
I used this to: I use this to build a recruitment website for IT sales and it is looking very good now and we were able to build it quite easily thanks to CB !

Many thanks to the CB team ! :-)
Functionality
Wide range of possibilities. We create different comunities and platforms with this software und it works like a charme.
Ease of use
It´s complex, but in community building this is in the nature of things. Everything is well described.
Support
Amazing support. I have a lot of experience with Joomla components, the support of CB is one of the best I got in the last years.
Documentation
Very well documentation for every component/plugin
I used this to: Community building, dating-websites
Functionality
Very powerful products with outstanding documentation that make custom application a breeze.
Ease of use
The documentation is extremely well written. Start-to-finish, very easy to use.
Support
I can not say enough good things about Joomlapolis support. it has always been, and continues to be to this day, best in the business.
Documentation
We use many different software components in our online business. CB and CBSubs documentation is amongst the very best.
I used this to: Community Builder and CBSubs for managing access to our online, subscription-based software. Simply put, Joomlapolis products are flawless.

Community Builder



Posted on 02 August 2015
Functionality
I have used this extension and (it's many plugins) for a multitude of sites. It has provided the right solutions on every occasion.
Ease of use
Straightforward to implement and intuitive.
Support
A1+++
The support is first class. Prompt and detailed responses.
Documentation
Full documentation for every aspect of the component. Documentation is regularly updated with new releases.
I used this to: As the name suggests, building communities, including comprehensive user and database management, paid subscriptions and integration with numerous 3rd party extensions... the possibilities are endless.
Functionality
Robust, powerful and compatible with a wide variety of other extensions. Can be used for many different purposes.
Ease of use
Very easy to use, and the stellar support these guys provide makes it easy to figure out what one can't understand.
Support
Stellar support - I can't say enough good things about the dev team and their skills - esp Kyle! Responses times usually pretty good too.
Documentation
Excellent documentation - - both via pdf files and their forum.
I used this to: I use this on multiple community based websites. All these sites have different purposes, but the software is robust enough to accommodate a very wide variety of requirements. HIGHLY recommended!
Functionality
All of the core functionality blocks are there and wiring them up is an easy task for a "normal" user
Ease of use
Very easy to work with and loads of flexibility
Support
one of the best support teams I have worked with. Also the support for other plugins is great
Documentation
to get you started all is there
I used this to: building a community website for Computer Graphics world

The best component



Posted on 19 July 2015
Functionality
The functionality is great. I enjoy using this component because when I want to set up a field it's very easy.
Ease of use
Ease of use is great. I really like how I can now have every mage approved even if using an image field on profiles.
Support
Documentation
I used this to: A media entertainment website I am working on. I am happy there is great integration with Kunena.
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Community Builder

Version:
2.11.0
Developer:
CB Team at Joomlapolis.com
Last updated:
Jan 28 2026
2 weeks 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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