Community Builder

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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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Lousy support - such a shame

piprees (10).
Posted on 02 January 2012

CB seems on the front cover to be exactly what every joomla developer needs.

But its so buggy its unreal - heck its not even really compatable with JFBConnect which joomla.org themselves use.

Reading through there forums - unless you are a paid subscriber (which considering there awful free support i will not become) they just dont really seem to care and ask half empty open ended questions all aimed to direct you to purchsing paid support.

My advice - if you need a community solution THAT WORKS - forget community builder till they sort out there customer service and support issues and use the money you would have for there support for a more professional extension.

Owner's reply: piprees,
1) Regarding your review subject:
You have posted 2 threads on Joomlapolis.com *free* community support forum areas, both addressed politely and professionally within *hours*. First one 3 year ago was addressed within hours requesting additional clarifications which you did not reply to:
https://www.joomlapolis.com/forum/70-cb-12-rc4-general-discussions/88885-kunena

Second, recent, thread, started on a global holiday (New Years Day) and was responded to *within hours* and got *resolved within 2 holidays days*!
https://www.joomlapolis.com/forum/149-usage/186859-j17-users-not-being-authorised-and-database-sync

2) Regarding the content of your review:
Your conclusion on the 1.1.2012 thread was that problem is *not in CB*, but due to *a bug in a third party CB plugin* (and that wasn’t in the list you gave in your original post!):
https://www.joomlapolis.com/forum/149-usage/186859-j17-users-not-being-authorised-and-database-sync?limit=6&start=18

And you also write in the thread “i never had a problem in the past”. Thus we can only guess that your review above was written while in troubleshooting mood and before even having the problem solved.

It should be noticed that if you would have had a professional membership, our support team would have gone to troubleshoot your issue for you on your site and to find the culprit third-party plugin for you. But you can easily understand that it is materially not possible to offer such personalized service to free members, unless it is a confirmed problem in CB itself, which you did and could not confirm as it wasn't a CB bug.

In the light of the above, your words “lousy support” of an issue in a third-party plugin (not CB nor JFB Connect) on New Year and statement “so buggy its unreal” while having “never had a problem in the past” should be put in perspective.

A good extension

Sebastian Kinkart (2).
Posted on 24 December 2011

I have been using CB on various sites, and it does work well. Extensions are plentiful, and functionality is great.

Installation is relatively complex on an existing site, but the documentation is detailled and support is provided even to the non paying suscribers.

The only major downside I found is that the latest version (1.7) still doesn't use the Joomla update system and has to be done manually. It is worth the time for major updates, but it's a waste of time during minor / security releases.

Compatibility and Open

Carlos Vasquez (3).
Posted on 21 December 2011

I have been using this component since the version for j1.0. I want to say that teh main reason for using it is that it is supported almost every single extension here in the JED. That is a very important thing as, it is the case for joomla! system, standardazation is a must.

The component has an easy and stable API, and this year with all the new add-ons, but most important, the Incubator‘s new plgugins the whole extension have become very very flexible, just limited by your creativity.

Suggestions: Tutorials for newbyes and just for reference. The forum is big, but a little difficult to find a proper answer from the knowledge base.

Lacks: offers from the joomla community for templates commercial or non-commercial.

In general, i recommend this extension, and want to thank for the work done.

awesome community builder component

Saifullah Khalid (1).
Posted on 17 December 2011

Hi,

I have been using it for one full year the best thing i liked is the free version, anyone can use it. Now I have benefits from it and I want other users to use it free in their beginning with joomla, i will go pro i will buy the membership and enjoy its membership benefits also.

I am very much thankful for creating bug-free perfect component for creating community websites.

Decent functionality, but not following MVC

Tobias Bornakke (3).
Posted on 05 December 2011

The functionality of CB is generally ok. The code behind is however so badly written that even fixing a simple redirect in the code or by a plugin override is several hours of work... Use CB if you aren't going to change anything in the component, but look for something else if you do.

Owner's reply: Hi bornakke,
Thanks for your review and rating. We need to address your remarks:
- CB has CB MVC and CB templating with CB template plugins (6 core free included with CB, and we offer separately optionally 3 commercial joomla & CB templates).
- For adding/changing redirects, there is the CB Auto Actions plugin (Incubator area for Pro members), that allows you to set workflows in 5 minutes without hacking: http://www.joomlapolis.com/cb-solutions/incubator
- CB is very flexible and versatile and suits many different needs by just configuration. Thus its code might appear more complex and using more design patterns than the average joomla extension. Thats why we created the CB plugins API which is much simpler to understand than CB core:
- In CB, to the contrary of many other extensions, there is no need to hack CB code, as there is a powerful and highly backwards- and upwards-compatible CB API with a CB Plugins installer. We do not recommend hacking core code for maintenance and security reasons, but using or creating CB Plugins instead. That way you can upgrade easily CB core without having to redo any changes.
- We have support: Free community forum; For Advanced members we have priority forum and for Pro and Developer members we even have SLA levels forums with guaranteed *same or next* business day answer (!) as well as private tickets) as well as consulting services should you have any questions or issues. More information on support here (general remark: please do not use the JED review system for support): http://www.joomlapolis.com/support

Great stuff.

Andy Conways (2).
Posted on 28 November 2011

Thank you developers for this extensions. It does help.

A Must For Newbies

Robert Schwartzback (4).
Posted on 26 November 2011

Any 'newbie' starting a page should use this extension in my opinion. Users are the focal point of any webpage, and this easy to install & manage extension allows, like it says, for you to build your own 'community' within your site. I haven't purchased any of the plug-ins for CB, but they seem well worth the price for a newbie like myself who wants to give his users the best experience with limited knowledge and understanding of coding.

The Best

joke (1).
Posted on 16 November 2011

good support for free memberships as well as for commercial membership

good free and commercial plugins

individual design options

You just need to know how it works ...

Awfull

Nuno Cruz (2).
Posted on 16 November 2011

If you want a community, this will do it. Other than that is terrible, to get access to more things you have to pay, there is almost no documentation and the support is very invective.

Good. But keep being free

Jean-Roch SCHMITT (8).
Posted on 29 October 2011

Tendency to be rather complex.

Please, remain free otherwise we would switch to other good extensions

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