Community Builder

294 reviews

Get Community Builder (v2.10.0)

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 - 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 8.4.3+ and MySQL 8.0.41+, as well as latest Joomla 5.2.3+, 4.4.10+ (or 3.10.20-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 5.2, 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

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Powerful extension, code is not MVC

Jeff Thier (8).
Posted on 18 September 2012

Having been asked for help with a club site, I was looking for a way to extend the Joomla user management system. We needed to display in the front-end a listing of all the club members with additional fields such as address, phone, member number etc. We also needed to give the possibility to the club administrators to edit each member profile from the front-end.

Community Builder provided exactly what we needed and much more!

It also integrates seamlessly with Kunena forum which is a big plus.

Now come a few negative points:

- The code behind CB is messy and far from following the MVC architecture. It becomes time consuming to make even a small adjustment.

- The language files don't follow either the Joomla specs (using simple ini files). Creating a translation plugin is a whole story! As there is no Swedish plugin for CB 1.8... We will have to make one ;)

- The admin interface could also benefit some clean-up. You can't have more than 4 columns in the list view? I agree that 4 columns should suffice in most cases, but more flexibility would be welcome here.

- I couldn't find a way to list the fields created in Joomla user profile plugin. Maybe my lack of experience with CB?

Despite the few cons mentioned, I think CB is a very good extension, and it did exactly what we needed. Thanks a lot for developing this and making it available to the Joomla community.

CB and CBSubs, perfect together!

Joe Rebele (4).
Posted on 07 August 2012

I have been using CB for the past 3 years and CBSubs since it was released. We are a membership based organization that has struggled with customized member management systems. We converted to CB and CBSubs 3 years ago and haven't looked back. It has streamlined our business process and provided functionality that we could never have afforded to build.

CBSubs is just absolutely amazing! We are able to manage all of our membership plans and upgrade our sponsored membership plans all programmatically. The Mailer function within this extension is exceptional. We send renewal notices to our members 60 and 30 days before there expiration which was all done manually before. Now, we sit back and watch.

If you are in need of a user management database and a membership subscription system this is the way to go! The value that you receive for the price is just unbeatable. Oh and by the way, the support that you receive from the Joomlapolis team is unmatched!

Regards,

Joe Rebele

Using Community Builder

Aleksej Khoroshevskij (112).
Posted on 01 June 2012

Using Community Builder in Joomla 2.5 and 1.5. Using it since Community Builder 1.4 (February 2011).

Advantages: lots of options, good integration with different extensions, great opportunities for creating online communities.

Disadvantages: no built-in CAPTCHA, you can not change the appearance of letters registered users.

Technical support - do not used.

Functional expansion, convenient user manager and flexible configuration of the registration form will create almost anything you want. From personal account by the company site to social networks. Translated into Russian.

Using Community Builder to create a form of registration and personal account on the site of postgraduate study and in my own blog.

Engaged in web technologies since March 2007. Use Joomla since December 2009.

Great Support!

Kathy Hamlin (3).
Posted on 22 May 2012

Worth every penny for the Advanced Membership. I received super quick personalized help with installation and am very happy with what it can do for my members area. Thanks Nick!

It does not come with a gallery plugin and almost every extension is payed

matheusgrafix (9).
Posted on 07 May 2012

If you need a gallery, you have to pay for it, or use an older version of CB, because just the version 1.2 of CB profile gallery (commercial) will work with the latest version of CB in Joomla 2.5.

In CB almost every extension is payed, and the minimum membership value is 1 year for € 65 / $ 87 / Fr. 80. Don't know about you, but I think that's very expansive.

That's the first time I see a social extension without a photo gallery by default, that's the basic of every social extension/cms.

What is a social network without pictures?

Happy for years!

Matthias (13).
Posted on 26 April 2012

With so many reviews it is hard to say something new about community builder... We use this extension for years, it is flexible and there are numerous plugins one can use with community builder.

We have a thriving community using CB every day. Fact is: it simply works!

Find your way around it by using the excellent documentation.

There are many great additions to CB provided by the developers that we use too.

So, nothing really new in this review. See this review as a big Thank You for the amazing product, the excellent coding and the wonderful support.

Thank you for making the Joomla World a better place!

A really great component!

Jos Blokdijk (3).
Posted on 30 March 2012

I have Community Builder used on several websites as a basic component because it is so very flexible. Support is in one word: amazing. CB I can therefore warmly recommend!

Great extension

Marcos (2).
Posted on 24 March 2012

I use Community Builder and some of the adons for a buy&sell site.

I am not a coder, nor a programmer, designer or anything like that and I was able to make it work just as I needed.

The extension is free, but paying a yearly rate you get lots of adons and stuff that were really helpful to meet my needs.

As I am not a coder, I had to ask in the support forum some questions that were rapidly answered and I got very useful and clear suggestions to do things I didn´t know how to.

Before paying the yearly rate I asked for a budget to do what I needed, it costed like U$10.000, proffesional membership costs Eur 95, nothing more to say.

First Class Product and Service

Michael Kiy (3).
Posted on 02 March 2012

I have used CB for some years now. Doesn't mean I am an expert - far from it - but the functionality and support that the CB team have delivered make me very confident in delivering complex registration and communication solutions for my clients.

I recently completed a project for a labour union, which required a robust pre-registration verification process, which the CB team helped me develop.

That doesn't sound very special on its own but having the confidence to have the team behind you when you are doing something for the first time just means everything.

Easy To Use and Very Powerful

Eric (3).
Posted on 12 February 2012

I love CB. It's been a perfect tool for a number of community group sites and fansites that I've created. The website and official forums are also generally very helpful in resolving issues.

I gave it a 4/5 only because some critical updates are late in arriving or becoming available for the free version. Captcha was a pay only feature for a while. Also, I know the 2.5 version is coming later this month, but ...

Having said that, the 1.7 version does appear to be stable on 2.5, so I'm moving forward with that in my development/test environment until the official 2.5 stable version of CB is released.

Overall, CB is great extension and highly recommended. If I was doing more professional projects that create revenue streams, I would probably do one of the pay subscriptions.

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