Kunena

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Communication, Forum, j4

Kunena is the leading Joomla forum component. Downloaded more than 8M times in 11 years, Kunena is the only forum/discussion solution for Joomla that is community driven - true open source - public self-help forums, GitHub and documentation Wiki.

The most recent stable release, recommended for production websites running J! 5.0/5.1/5.2/5.3, is Kunena 6.4.4

Details about changes in last release of Kunena 6.4 are contained in the release notes at https://www.kunena.org/blog

MAIN FEATURES:

Build with jQuery, Bootstrap (2.x,3.x and 4.x) and Fontawesome 6
Uses CKeditor 4
Highly configurable
Upload attachments in Ajax with drag&drop support
Upload avatar in Ajax
Save moderation actions with log system and system error
Rate topic
Support polls in topic
Buit-in template installation support
Integration plugins to work with : AltaUserpoint, Community Builder, Jomsocial, Easyblog, Easyprofile, Easysocial, Uddeim and gravatar
Support in messages embded tweet, soundcloud, instagram and ebay
Support of openGraph
Support of microdata

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Great Forum extension!!

Phillip Hads (2).
Posted on 06 April 2009

Best forum extension for joomla!, works great to needs. Setup was easy and manage your foum with this extension is really easy. Congratulations for your great work kunena team!

Easy to install, manage and use

Tennis Fans (1).
Posted on 24 March 2009

Have installed this for about a month and it works fine. Very easy to install and manage.

The only improvement that I can think of is the editor. If it could be more user friendly, that would be great.

Big Thanks to the developer.

So far so good - but not native: No go for now!

Hans Dampf (1).
Posted on 23 March 2009

Kunena has the potential to be the most featurerich and user friendly forum component for joomla.

Well thought functions, everything a user expects and ease of use are markable features of this Fireboard successor.

But currently it is only available as a legacy version and therefore i would never recommend to use it in a native environment: The price for switching to legacy just for an forum is to much for me.

I know that the friendly developers are working on this issue and i hope that they get out an native version soon because i really want to kick that phpBB3 into the trashcan.

Keep it on your watchlist but give it some time to get matured! If it comes out native, an "Excellent" rating will be fair.

It work immediately you upload it

Paul (1).
Posted on 14 March 2009

I have Fireboard on another site but thought I would try out the new Agora 3.0 andgot a MySql error right away. Kunena on the other hand looks great, works immediately and I don't have try and decipher illogical documentation as with Agora.

This Forum Changes Everything!

gary bradshaw (2).
Posted on 12 March 2009

Finally Joomla! as a forum software as good as Joomla! itself. So easy to use, great design and the support is excellent. I liked this software so much that I even had a version of SEF Advance developed just to work with it.

Sweet and Fast forum

chicomangh (3).
Posted on 11 March 2009

I think this is sofar the best forum I have tried for Joomla!

Very quick install - works natively with 1.5 and no hassles

Excellent image handling and video/file handling and a good set of features/functions

Very Good Work!

Thanks!

The best. Fact!!

laweffect (3).
Posted on 10 March 2009

After much testing of many forum components, some I found too complicated and others were to simple and lacked functionality.

Kunena is just great, with a great team of developers - head over to the kunena website to see.

Thanks

Great support on an already great forum component!

Josh (2).
Posted on 28 February 2009

I'm so glad to see that further developmnt of Fireboard (an already mature project) has continued, and that the Kunena team is so active and willing to add user ideas and to help users with any issues or changes they may like to make.

This is the forum component for Joomla right now in my opinion. I've tried a few forums and this one seems to have one of the best balances between maturity and updates/advancement

Just what Fireboard needed...

Traek Malan (2).
Posted on 22 February 2009

Great to have some of the Fireboard team back on track and unincumbered by poor management, unnecessary secrecy and inflated egos! The upgrade from 1.5RC2 was beautifully simple -- much easier than past internal Fireboard upgrades -- and does exactly what they say it does (and quickly!).

Big fan of 1.8 and very much looking forward to their native 1.5.x/1.6(?) version.

I had tried Agora once I found out about the Fireboard project falling to pieces and am so glad to be coming back to this much cleaner forum system.

I have to agree wholeheartedly with cowboysdude's review, especially about the use of Kunena with CB 1.2 and uddeIM being the perfect combination and it certainly has become the de facto Joomla standard.

Best Joomla Forum Component to date!!!

Matthew (1).
Posted on 19 February 2009

This component is a wonderful improvement to previous projects that were either discontinued or lacking in development. Having the component integrated within Joomla, and knowing that the developers are working as hard as they are on this component really gives me a lot of faith in this project. The only negative at this point is that it is not 1.5 native.

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Kunena Latest

By Kunena Team

Kunena extensions

The Kunena team is proud to release the latest version 6.1.0 of its ultra-flexible module for Kunena 6.3.x and Joomla! 4.4.x/5.x. Use this module to display the topics and posts of your Kunena forum with a wide variety of options (over 7,500 possible combinations!) to show off your forum content anywhere on your Joomla website. Add as many modules on a page as you like....

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Kunena Login

By Kunena Team

Kunena extensions

The Kunena Team is proud to release version 6.1.0 of the Kunena Login module. This module replaces the default Joomla login module and gives you more flexibility and custom redirection. It's integrated with other popular extensions like JomSocial and Community Builder....

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Kunena Stats

By Kunena Team

Kunena extensions

The Kunena Team is proud to release version 6.1.0 of our discussion plug-in for Kunena 6.3.x. The Kunena Statistics module enables you to display various statistics about your Kunena forum. You can display just about anything such as top posters, top polls, most thank yous, and much more....

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Kunena Discuss

By Kunena Team

Kunena extensions

The Kunena Team is proud to release version 6.1.0 of our discussion plug-in for Kunena 6.3.x. The Kunena Discuss plug-in enables you to add comments functionality to your website. Users can comment on any section, category, or article just like any commenting system, but user comments and discussions are stored in your Kunena forum (though displayed on your articles). Now you can have all of your...

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Kunena Search

By Kunena Team

Kunena extensions

The Kunena Team is proud to release version 6.1.0 of the Kunena Search module for Kunena 6.3. This module enables you to add a search box in any module position. The search box searches your Kunena forum....

Kunena

Version:: 6.4.4
Developer:: Kunena Team
Last updated:: Jul 09 2025
4 weeks ago
Date added:: Feb 02 2009
License:: GPLv2 or later
Type:: Free download
Includes:: c m p
Compatibility:: J3 J4 J5

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