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

The Community Builder Software, along with the CB Subs Subscription system is the perfect combination for any Joomla page. The software documentation is thorough and comprehensive. Technical support for developers is well worth the cost of a developer subscription. I for one will be keeping mine renewed.

The best you can get



Posted on 07 October 2013
I'm using CB on all of my joomla websites. Once you've tried and learned it it's hard to imagine making a joomla website without CB. It's so well integrated. And the best of all is the support. Kyle is like an eagle, seeing and answering all the forum topics. Thank you joomla, thank you CB

Undisputed



Posted on 05 October 2013
I used CB 2 years ago and was enticed by the look of jomsoial so i moved 3 websites with 60000 plus members... After few months i realize my move was the worst thing... I spend too much and delayed all project waiting for the new version to fix my problem... Look what, im back with CB and this ttime i love it more... Its free and very active community... Hats off!
I have been using CB on sites for years and now it is time to review it here at JED. Community Builder is one of the most useful extensions ever created for any CMS. Custom profiles are easy to create and user lists are also simple to implement. The fact that so many third party plugins have been written for CB is a testimony to the popularity of this extension. Every joomla site I have developed that allows for front end user accounts is powered by CB simply because I know the site can be expanded with other joomla extensions later which will support the CB profile and login system. If your site will have a focus on a custom user profile then using Community Builder will assist you by making it easy to manage users, generating user lists and it can be used to provide the data for adding profile details into other joomla extensions or modules. The front end user interface could do with some work and would be greatly improved with a template system for the profile tab layouts but other than that this is a brilliant joomla extension.

Nice community component



Posted on 24 September 2013
This component does what it says.

I have used it for some time and there ar a lot of extensions out there to make it even better.



Recomended !

Just what is needed



Posted on 31 August 2013
I use this community component or JomSocial depending to the needs and the client. CB works great. It is a heavy component so be aware when you are installing it but do not hesitate since it is going to be what you wanted.
I have been using CB and CBSubs for 5 years now and have to tell you that what makes this software worth having is the extraordinary support from their staff. I also, of course, LOVE the capabilities that CBSubs offer and was unable to find in any other extension. I manage a community site and needed to be able to have several types of membership and only one type could access certain content. Initially I had trouble configuring the memberships but the support staff helped me through this process and its still working years later. All of the staff that helped me years ago are also still there! Now I have two sites using CBSubs and I'm in the process of upgrading to all current versions of software. I've already run into a few snags with Joomla and had help from their forum, and am just starting the CBSubs and feel confident that their staff will be there to assist when needed. Response time is always faster than expected and they always know how to help get me out of the sticky spots that I sometimes get myself into. This is top notch support.

Good extension



Posted on 28 August 2013
CB is very flexible and powerful extension to manage a community.



Not 5 stars becouse scarce documentation

Good extension



Posted on 07 August 2013
I like it. It works good for my sites and the updates are good. The free version gives me almost all what I need. Thank you and continue this extension.
Community Builder is a nice component. I used it as a basic component

because it is flexible, easy to install and configure. But it also have some problem

like it is very heavy component so that it is difficult to uninstall.

But I like this extension because it does help.
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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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