CjForum

12 reviews

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Introduction

Social Profiles, Forum, Communities, PMS, Instant Messaging

Build awesome discussion forums with integrated social features, beautiful user interface and power packed feature set.

Mobile Ready: Not just looks but also behaves great on smartphones, tablets, and desktops.
Personal Messaging: Quickly send messages to other forum users with built-in private messaging system
Social Login: Sign up or sign in your users with social services such as Facebook, Google, Twitter and Linkedin
Nested Categories: With unlimited nested categories support, organize content in a better way.
Leaderboard: Display the top user rankings and encourage users to participate in discussions.
Profile System: CjForum profile glue your users with one stop shop for all your user data and provides personalized page. Supports custom profile fields.
Points System: Reward your users with the built-in points system and motivate them to discuss more.
Rank System: With the built-in rank system, you can assign a rank to your users and encourage them.
Activity Stream: CjForum activity stream provides a unified page to view and discuss on all user activity.
Tagging System: Flexible integration with Joomla tag system allows more organized content and explore topics.
Avatars Support: Built-in avatar system can be extended using flexible API, or you can use third-party avatars.
Likes/Dislikes: Topics and replies can be liked/disliked and users can say Thank You to other user replies.
Social Sharing: Social sharing/bookmarks integration through AddThis allows your users to share topics or bookmark them.
Powerful ACL: Protect your content with powerful ACL system. Define permission for each user group for different actions.
WYSIWYG Editor: Use your Joomla WYSIWYG editor to post topics or reply to them. Make full use of Joomla editor's potential.
Email subscriptions: Let your users subscribe to the categories or listings and get notified of any updates/new submissions.
Fully Customizable: Uses Joomla® MVC design, sharable layouts and most of the one-click options.
Advanced Search: Advanced search page let you search the content easily with loads of options.
RSS Feeds: RSS Feeds feature to let your users subscribe the listings through their favorite RSS reader.
Multiple Listings: Browse multiple listings such as latest, popular, featured topics or user submitted topics.
GDPR compliance updates: Allow users to download and delete profile and posts, take consent before saving the profile.

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Awesome!

Carl Cooper (2).
Posted on 23 February 2020

Functionality

CjForum is awesome, simple and clean, and very functional. It integrates with the sociable activity stream seamlessly. It's perfect!

Ease of use

Super Simple! Love it! It's very intuitive and allows people to communicate with a bunch of features, badges, friends, etc.

Support

I am super impressed with response from support. I skipped a version updating, which caused an issue support found and corrected quickly.

Documentation

The documentation is very helpful. I found a few things, like syncing users, and connecting users, that pull all of the features together.

Value for money

Great value. I got the community package and it is awesome! It has a ton of capability and customization options.

I used this to: I am assembling a team of like-minded people to promote political solutions for the public.

Avoid this one

Ionko gueorguiev (2).
Posted on 31 July 2019

Functionality

errors with community builder and returns constant 404s when navigating within the component.

Ease of use

No issues installing or navigation the component. Options screen is a bit bare bone.

Support

Issues I encountered were posted on their forums, but the developer's repose is always the same; I did a fresh install and it's fine.

Documentation

Standard wiki with a few articles, absolutely nothing in regards to their CB plugin.

Value for money

component is unusable as advertised, value is non existent. I expect a payed component to work out of the box.

I used this to: Needed a forum for a themed community/classified/forum website. The options are limited and decided to go for the payed component. Avoid this one!

Owner's reply: Thank you for posting your feedback. For the benefit of other users, I am posting the conversation that I had with you here.

1. You have never contacted us for any support either on forum or email, however, you assumed that the other people's questions were not answers and decided not to ask. However, I proactively contacted you for any assistance but you refused by saying it is not required.
2. You mentioned that the developer response is always the same on this review and came to know from your reply that it is an assumption based on forum posts. All forum posts are publicly available and anyone can read them and conclude if it is true or false.
3. You mentioned the documentation is not adequate for community builder plugin. However, the plugin does nothing but just show a list of topics on CB profile (documentation on installing and managing plugins is CB related and is available on CB site). If you could let me know what type of documentation you need, I am glad to write it.
4. You mentioned CB plugin produces 404 errors, however, you did not want support in this issue. So I cannot do any further debugging of what is the actual issue.

I assure you that these are very small problems and can be solved by contacting us for support. I am glad to help you resolve these issues if you wish to use the extension in the future.

Nice forum extension

skouf (8).
Posted on 06 March 2019

Functionality

A nice working forum.

Ease of use

Easy to use and configure

Support

Excellent support !

Documentation

Value for money

Value ok

Great forum extension which is improved regularly

Marina (2).
Posted on 04 September 2018

Functionality

Has all the basic forum functionality, PM's are included. Developer is open for suggestions and improvements

Ease of use

Quite easy to set up, sometimes conflicts with 3rd party theme, but always resolved quickly.

Support

I found a few bugs and they were resolved quickly and implemented in updates.

Documentation

Good enough, but could be improved at some points.

Value for money

Definitely worth the money paid for.

I used this to: Forum on a website for people with psoriasis.

Support is excellent

Barbara Burch Kuhn (1).
Posted on 17 August 2018

Functionality

Good functionality

Ease of use

Had trouble at first, but tech support was very responsive and helpful.

Support

Documentation

Value for money

Good

Simple with many integrations and unique features

Thiery Chaloux (8).
Posted on 14 June 2018

Functionality

Very good ACL implementation and social login without other 3rd party plugins

Ease of use

Very simple

Support

Great support

Value for money

Good value

I used this to: Build social community with quiz, videos, recipes and forum

Great Support

Jeff Sheffer (1).
Posted on 26 June 2017

Functionality

Works very well

Ease of use

Quite easy out of the box

Support

Awesome support! Took no time to get a response and physical assistance with NO delay. Great job and thanks again for the help.

Documentation

I'm not very skilled so for me it could be a little more in depth

Value for money

It's a free component that I will donate to

Great Support

Joe (1).
Posted on 19 March 2017

Functionality

The product is pretty versatile and has done everything that I need it to do. Has met all of my needs so far.

Ease of use

It's a pretty straight forward interface and pretty self explanatory.

Support

This is where the product really excels! The fast response and great answers from the forum developer are amazing.

Documentation

What I've reviewed has been good.

Value for money

The product is great, but the excellent product support is what has really sold me on this forum.

I used this to: An online forum for a community support group.

Great service

lazarus (1).
Posted on 02 March 2017

Functionality

Not applicable

Ease of use

Not applicable

Support

I sent a request regarding an extension I have purchased and got a quick and positive response .

Value for money

worth the money

Fantastic Extension

Jesse Humphry (3).
Posted on 19 February 2017

Functionality

Functionality extends beyond the out-of-the-box component and well into the activity feed module that lets you decide how to display topics.

Ease of use

Easy to manage, a bit harder to style to your site if you lack CSS knowledge. Lack of component options panel in favor of Global Config use.

Support

Support is impressive. Maverick is quick to respond. However it's rarely needed except for feature suggestions.

Documentation

Documentation is clear but could use some localization. Otherwise, everything's pretty straight forward.

Value for money

Absurd. This extension is far superior to Kunena, albeit Kunena is free and CJF is paid. If you're using Kunena, I recommend switching ASAP.

I used this to: A website that handles a growing community. I couldn't ask for a better forum, nor could I find one. Any function requirements I have are nitpicking and don't take away from the amazing original product.

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