Community Builder

294 reviews

Get Community Builder (v2.11.0)

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 - 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

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Both a must have and a pain in the back

Frits Jongbloets (20).
Posted on 05 July 2013

Over the years the Joomla core was extended with some user profile fields. Yet, if you really want to dig into profile and/or community building you'll need an extension. Community Builder (CB) is one of two or three major players in this league. And CB is my favorite as it's structure is more transparent. I have it running on a handful of sites right now.

Having said this, I must add that I had some bad times with CB because of two things: (1) making it look a bit fancy takes a lot of work and (2) if you need to migrate from J.1.5. to J.2.5. then you're on your own. It seems that there used to be a CB plugin for jUpgrade but that it doesn't work anymore since J.2.5.6., end of story.

So here I am working a few days on the migration of one single CB install. And yes I need to do it as I don't see an alternative. But boy would I like to see an easier way to do this.

Professional Communities

Joe (1).
Posted on 31 March 2013

I love this for Professional Communities. Keep in mind I have the Developer membership so this is a review for that. Normally I would not give an Excellent rating to a community extension if it was not 5 star for both professional and nonprofessional websites. It is lacking a little bit on the presentation for free flowing social sites like you would get with the other options that are out there. But Community Builder not only provides a professional web atmosphere my customers find that it can be used in place of some software they used to keep track of projects and schedule's. With that and the customer service being top notch and answers to questions coming much faster then advertised I had to give this five stars. Keep in mind for free flowing social websites you want to have look like a Facebook site there are better options out there. If you want a social environment for employees there is no better option that I have found out there other than high priced software programs.

Good but bad code

Klaus Müller (7).
Posted on 02 March 2013

I like this extension although it has bad code and is not programmed with the latest standard. Adjustments are not really easy.

Nevertheless, I give 4 stars because the extension does the job!

SUPERB!

Alexander Van Parys Piergili (1).
Posted on 23 December 2012

CB is a SUPERB component.

It´s being 7 years now I´m using it, and like wine, it just got better and better with time.

CB is easy to install and configure, support forums are fantastic, and it´s out of the box functionalities is just what you need to create an online community.

Thanks, CB Team!

...no

jycs (12).
Posted on 09 December 2012

Very heavy, impossible to uninstall (not in manager), and unnecessary in the absolute.

great extensions

Artyom Pankov (2).
Posted on 06 December 2012

One of the greatest extensions for Joomla. Really great and huge functions. It worth every dollar paid for it. Highly recommendable extension.

Great component!

Interface (3).
Posted on 03 December 2012

Thank you for his great work, I hope that my English of little level understands himself, I am Spanish but I struggle to express the grateful thing that I sit down with you. Undoubtedly some COMMUNITY BUILDER is a component that gives level and quality to my web site, I have a commitment with his work and in the future I would like to collaborate nothing more scope my aims, fodder to share my achievements with people as you that without doubt someone they help to create big projects of a surprising quality, I hope that it follows this line of work and wish a lot of luck him in his project, attentivly, Interface of Soundkraken

A huge benefit for our site

Kenneth Fribert (51).
Posted on 01 December 2012

Where to start with this component. It's simply brilliant. Allthough I think the developers are german, and 'ordnung must sein' and they have quite a lot of politics towards joomla, and they are not all always the most subtle, they absolutely know what they are doing, and are extremely competent. Furthermore the component itself is only the foundation for the myriad of plugins, addons and tidbits you can add to it.

The price seems a bit high at first glance, yes, but they also respond within 3 days, and always with a sound foundation.

One of the best gems hidden in the higher subscriptions are the 'Auto Action', with that you can make all sorts of crazy and advanced automations for your users.

Their API is also quite well documented, and they are willing to help out if you need some sort of 'direct' access from another component to the CB data.

What can I say, in total, great job!

WOW. Support is incredible and new plugins are versatile

Chris Berry (2).
Posted on 22 November 2012

I had used jomsocial in the past and frankly can't believe what I have been missing. In addition to the full feature set, the support is incredible from the Forums and community at Community Builder / joomopolis.

Most importantly, my clients love the features and functionality and I am happy to be a proud CB user.

Superior Support Wins Every Time

Michael Mathews (6).
Posted on 31 October 2012

In trying to decide which Community Component that I wanted to use, I kept seeing complaints about one provider's support system and little but praise for Community Builder. That was one of the major factors that made me choose CB. I had some issues with the CB Quickstart Pro. I posted on the forum and had a quick response. It took a little effort on their part but they were able to get everything working like a charm. The support is excellent and so is the product. I look forward to getting my community set up. It appears that there is a bit of a learning curve, but I know if I stumble a bit - support will be right there to guide me on.

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