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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Excellent!

Lethann (2).
Posted on 28 July 2006

I can't tell you how awesome this suite is. And regardless of what some people may say, there is no fee required. You don't need documentation at all for it.

My only suggestions is to make it so one can approve profile images through the backend without having to go through the frontend module. The other, and it will probably come in due time, is to add Jim PM to their PM integration lists.

Perfect solution with extended capability!

Johnny (3).
Posted on 30 June 2006

Respect for the developers!

Great usermanagement tool, adds a lot of extended capability, very userfriendly, and a lot potential!

In development are some great (already (stable) working) plugins like for phpbb forum and galleries etc.

Takes over the usermanagement from joomla without affecting anything, cooperating perfectly.

Extend your user profiles, users can easily edit them theirselves. If preferred optional fields keep oversight of actions under userprofiles (like users' articles, posts, etc).

Adds a manageable memberlist. Easy to define extra tabs with info about the user like; a curriculum vitea; car-details; company info; software info; etc. etc.

I definitly would recommend it, especially for those who want to have more specialized usermanagement!

Cheer, compliments!

Excellent work!

Rob (1).
Posted on 30 May 2006

I have used RC2 for a while on several of my sites. I have several church sites and "building community" is what we do best. Thus our fascination with CB.

Since the stable release, we have been even more pleased. Of course you will never please everyone, no matter what you do. But this has to be one of the best if not the best addition to Joomla.

There are several things a Joomla site must not be without, and this is at the top of the list. It has so many uses. Keep up the good work! We are looking forward to using it for many years to come.

Great work....

Cory Kaminsky (1).
Posted on 23 May 2006

I disagree with a few of the past post. This is a great addition to Joomla. As far as support goes, yeah it might take a little while to get support but we have to realize everyone is spread-out around the world. The issues with the delayed releases, I applaud them for not releasing a buggie program. So it took a few days more, at least it saved alot of people alot of headaches.

The component / module is more then user management. It is exactly what it says. It builds communities. Take a look at the user sites in the forum at the Community Builder homepage. There are some very nice Joomla/community builder sites that rivial many of the myspace-style sites.

Hats off to the CB team and supporters. Great program. Keep up the good work.

Superb

Darren (1).
Posted on 12 May 2006

Great, but check the joomlapolis site cos the 1.0 stable release is out and much better install and support

*****

Great Component, great support

raj (4).
Posted on 11 May 2006

The CB team has just released 1.0 Stable. The wait was frustrating, to be sure, but it was worth it, and what was a very solid component is now even better, with a more advanced plug in framework. The forums are very active, and the community is happy to help newbies get off to a running start. You can set up a MySpace-like website in just a few minutes, and 1.0 Stable was written with compatibility with Joomla 1.5. So no upgrade pains. Download it, you'll love it.

Roger

Shows promise but poor support

Joomie (1).
Posted on 10 May 2006

A fine idea, but to this point it's been nothing but excuses from the developer(s) regarding any updates.

The developer(s) have stated several times over the last few months specific times and dates to received an update. All of these dates have come and gone without a release.

A quick view of the boards there shows users at the point of begging for the updates. I don't know if this is a situation anyone wants to expose themselves to.

Not to be taken as a lack of gratitude, as we all know this offering is freebie/donation based, but I think this needs to out there so one can make an informed decision before deciding or relying on this component or devs of this component.

Again, fine concept but poor support.

Great Idea

Smee (1).
Posted on 09 May 2006

Great component however the organization behind it is woefully inept in the maintenance/release aspect. Current version is RC2.

Since Feb2006 they have been announcing a stable release. Several "to be released on" announcements later (too numerous to count) nothing. They even went as far as to put up a countdown clock recently as to when the stable release was to be provided.

All events, announcements and countdowns have come and gone without a release...

It's unfortunate - this is a component that shows the promise and ability to enhance Joomla as a whole.

Essential

Firefly (1).
Posted on 07 May 2006

Community Builder is a good reason to use Joomla, as it allows it to be member-orientated. Quick to install, masses of useful add-ons, and easy to set up Profile Pages for your members, with added fields and tabs.

Awesome

Mark Magin (4).
Posted on 02 May 2006

I love this component, it's almost like a whole application unto itself. Use it in several community sites.

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