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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Simply a must have for Joomla

Jimmy Andrews (2).
Posted on 31 October 2014

Joomla and Community Builder are so perfect together, they should be married :-) CB is fantastic, support is awesome, control is great.

Top extension

Sylvain Martel (6).
Posted on 17 October 2014

I am building the website for a small dojo association and was looking for an extension to add custom fields to users profile when they register.(like their sensei name, dojo location, etc) I must say Community Builder made that pretty easy! I got the advanced subscription to support the team and get the whole documentation. After fiddling a bit more with CB, I found out it is a very flexible solution. But with flexibility often comes complexity, so I was glad to see that the documentation was very well written and complete. I found out about the privacy plugin feature for fields and how to add private tabs, etc. All in all, we managed to build very nice profiles for our users, and we are now looking at the other features like private messaging and allowing users to post their own blog and gallery.

What I also truly appreciated is that, while I am no programmer, I suspect CB API is really easy to use because of the amount of extensions that provide a plugin to integrate to CB profiles. CB itself is also pretty stable. I can't speak for 2.0 since it's been out for only a few weeks, but v1.9.1 ran without a hitch without problem.

And finally, the support. I got nothing but praise for it. While sometime I didn't like the answer(like: "This will be fixed in CB 2.0" which was months away back then) they have ALWAYS answered within 24 hours on their forums. The memberships price are not cheap(but you can get the basic extension itself for free), but I am glad I took one as a "thank you" for this great extension. It is unique in it's field right now, and v2.0 fixed the only small annoying things I had to say about it(the registration form and login box were not responsive so it would not display correctly on a tablet or phone. All fixed now). 5 stars

Everything in CB is excellent!

Alejandro Sierra (1).
Posted on 03 September 2014

Excellent code and functionality!

The support is superb too!

And the paid plugins like Groupjive have no comparison.

I've been using it for years and by far is the best joomla component to create social networks

Fantastic Support! Love the features!

imaaxx (2).
Posted on 09 May 2014

We have been using Community Builder in our sites for over 7 years now and we have always loved the great features CB brings to our Hobby based sites.

The support from the CB team is top notch, and we always get an answer to our questions in a timely manner.

We are Professional level members because of the added plugins and enhancements they add to the site. If you are looking to offer outstanding features to your sites members this is the only way to go.

Also the direction of the CB project is great with the soon to be stable release of CB 2.0, cant wait for the new version to be used on all our live sites.

Way to go CB Team, keep up the great work!

Alan

Great & Superb

muhammad zahid mahmood (3).
Posted on 19 March 2014

I have been using CB since 1 year. This component is Superb! I used it to create a dating site, a corporate intranet & now the community for a sport steam.

It is really a very good product to build complex communities. It is very Flexible and easy to install

There are endless possibilities that also shows in countless other components that include "CB integration".

Memberships, Social Network, or Advanced Featuers? Use CB!

Cassandra Stein (2).
Posted on 22 February 2014

I've used community builder for over 6 years now, and I am still ecstatic over their products! Regardless if I'm working for a client or myself, if I'm building membership sites, social networking sites, normal Joomla websites, or complex advanced sites community builder is always the first extension I install! The flexibility is amazing, the features unique, and the support leaves me breathless! It has a learning curve, but the time invested is well worth it! Then you'll be just as addicted as I am!

worth the investment

carin (14).
Posted on 21 February 2014

I used CB in the free edition and were quite happy. So I decided to go for the paid Pro version when my needs for a more sophisticated setup grew. The Investment was quite substential but I have to say the support and the additional extensions which made me reach my goals with ease brought back the smile.

There are still some bumps in the code, like they dont have a language override system in place (they dont use the Joomla native language feature) which makes it (almost) impossible to have your own customised language strings. But they are working on it already.

Keep on rocking guys!

Very good product with the best possible support.

Nico F (5).
Posted on 22 January 2014

Hi,

I use Community Builder and a lot of they extensions on a lot of websites for many years and it is really a very good product to build complex communities. During the years they do a lot over very powerfull upgrades, like auto actions etc.

They support is the best of the best and quick.

Regards.

Nic@

A great tool for a complete social network

michel (7).
Posted on 02 December 2013

Hi,

I use CB, GroupJive and CBSubs and lots of plugins (almost all!) On my websites and I think it is really rich in possibilities. Initially, I am neither developer or webmaster and I still make the site I wanted. Thanks to the help of the team and its Joomlapolis forum, I was able to create a complete social network with all the necessary functions for the grow! Good luck to Joomlapolis in development;)

Simply wow!

Richard Cevat (2).
Posted on 24 November 2013

This component is beyond excellent! I have used it to create a datingsite, a coprorate intranet and now the community for a sportsteam.

The possibilities are endless, and that also shows in countless other components that include "CB integration" out of the box.

99% of all questions are answered almost immediately on their forum and their staff (although sometimes they have room to improve on answering with a smile) are efficient, respectful and increidbly knowledgable.

drawback? Yes, the layout of the profile pages. But thanks to another great extension (ProfilePro from Joomduck) even that disadvantage disappears.

i read from others that the component is large, not easy to uninstall and requires a lot of effort. All this is true (except uninstalling, I never had to do that yet). And yes, creating a community is hard work, but CB and the guys from Joomapolis make it a lot of fun!

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