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

Simply Excelent !



Posted on 16 September 2010
I am very happy with this plugin and the support given. The documentation is good and if you get stuck they're quick to help out on the joomlapolis forums.



Joomla + CB + Profilemanager + UDDIM give an excellent foundation to build your site upon

Excellent!



Posted on 15 September 2010
I thought I was having issues getting it working till I gave up and tried the other free ones. Didn't take long to realize this one wasn't difficult at all. It's simply excellent, I love it. So much in fact that I decided to become a Doc subscriber and support it. Forums are amazingly informative and supported. I had a css problem that had everything to do with my limited knowledge and my template. Krileon went above and beyond to help me resolve it. Amazing product, amazing support, what more can you ask for?
I had a bit of trouble signing up and getting my confirmation email to the Joomlapolis site, so I contacted the authors, as I couldn't find a more appropriate site help/issues link, and I was very impressed, even though I was just trying out the free CB Joomla extension, they got right on getting things working for me and I was able to download and install the extension - I haven't used it yet but I just wanted to give them kudos for prompt response!

Great addition to our site



Posted on 12 September 2010
The interface is a little clunky and a few more templates would be nice, but overall, it works great and plays nice with Joomla, Kunena and uddeIM.

Very nice



Posted on 14 August 2010
Hello folks! Easy to install and use. I am in an early fase of developing my portal, but I needed to upgrade my membership fast. Not because it vas nessesary, but because it felt like a crime just to use it without contributing to the project. Upgrading is really cheap too, and opens even better opportunities.



Thank you! :)))

Simply Awesome!!!



Posted on 08 August 2010
Works straight out of the box!!!

I used the 1.2.2 version. The code is hard coded and complex because it has been designed to work on MAMBO in addition to J!. That is the only reason why I am giving it 4 stars other-wise, its a 5-star component..!!!



But I guess thats a small price you pay for such functionalities. A BIG HUG from my side to the developers for doing such Fantastic work..!!!



Add to it the fact that the support forum is very well maintained and the fact that CB has the most number of 3rd party extensions available in comparison to its competitors. That tells you why CB is such a great extension to use..!!!

Fantastic



Posted on 30 July 2010
Easy to install, works straight away, well worth paying for the document subscription, amazing support and so quick. Don't often write reviews, and there are some other great extensions out there, but I had to go to the bother for these guys as they deserve it so much.

Great extension



Posted on 27 July 2010
Community Builder has got to be the best free extension out there. The functionality it adds to Joomla is invaluable. I would like a little more polish to some things as well as more integrated features (gallery, PM, image handlers,etc.) but overall I have to say it's a GREAT extension. Keep up the great work!

Excellent



Posted on 19 July 2010
Top ratings from me, an excellent addition to any site.
Thanks for sharing this free and very use full component.
CB Paid Subscriptions
Paid download

CB Paid Subscriptions

By CB Team at Joomlapolis.com
Community Builder extensions
CB Paid Subscriptions (sometimes also called CBSubs) is a powerful, extremely flexible and field-proven paid subscriptions membership management solution for any Joomla website using Community Builder. Add unlimited subscription plans, memberships, sell merchandise items and accept donation on your website. Great solution for a broad range of e-commerce use case websites including (but not limit...
CB Editor Assistant
Paid download

CB Editor Assistant

By CB Team at Joomlapolis.com
Content Construction
CB Editor Assistant is a powerful AI-powered content creation and enhancement tool for Joomla 3, 4 & 5, with professional AI content and marketing writing services included. This native Joomla plugin seamlessly integrates into your Joomla site, offering instant improvements to articles, metadata, and various text elements across your website and extensions. CB Editor Assistant truly transforms...
CB Gallery
Paid download

CB Gallery

By CB Team at Joomlapolis.com
Galleries
CB Gallery is a powerful multi-media gallery supporting Photos, Videos, Audio, and Files. Share media on Community Builder (CB) profiles amongst your community, add masonry grid of photos to your articles, and render anywhere you want in modules and content short codes! Effortlessly scales from small to large business optimized and tested on over 1 million media entries. Supports unlimited upload...
CB Activity
Paid download

CB Activity

By CB Team at Joomlapolis.com
Social Media
CB Activity adds interactive streams where users can share their thoughts and happenings and engage in online discussions through comments. Expand your community to all aspects of your site with unlimited activity and comment streams. With built in Likes and Follows functionality you can keep your community interacting. All the features you know and love for posts from your favorite social network...

Community Builder

Version:
2.11.0
Developer:
CB Team at Joomlapolis.com
Last updated:
Oct 24 2025
1 month ago
Date added:
Mar 05 2006
License:
GPLv2 or later
Type:
Free download
Includes:
c m p
Compatibility:
J3 J4 J5 J6
Download

Uses Joomla! Update System

Score:


Write a review