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Published: 24 February 2015

Last Updated: 24 February 2015

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Paid members can download CB Gallery 1.0.2 from the Advanced Download area

The new CB Gallery add-on for CB 2.0.6+ is here and it supports photos, files, videos and music media items.

Your users will just love the new look and feel as they will be able to organize all their multimedia content on the 4 new user profile tabs (Photos, Files, Videos, Music). Each tab can have unlimited albums and users can easily organize their content giving them distinctive titles and descriptions. Plus everything works great on all viewing devices (desktop, tablets and mobile phones).

Here is a list of key features available:

• Everything is mobile ready
• 4 tabs (Photos, FIles, Videos, Music)
• each tab can have unlimited albums (folders)
• each album can have unlimited items
• folders and items are editable with gear icon popup menu
• folder names and item names are searchable
• photos are clickable to reveal full size image in popup lightbox
• file upload sizes can be configured for all items and allowed extension types can be configured for file items
• limits can be imposed on number of folders and number of media items
• moderation and captcha can be enabled for folder creation and media items
• item linking can be enabled separately for each media type (only Youtube linking currently supported for video items)
• backend folder and item management support lets your administrators add new folders or upload new media for users or edit existing items

Video Folder

Here is a sample screenshot of what your users can expect from a video folder album.

File Folder

A file folder album lets your users upload their files and share them with other users.

Music Folders

Your users will be able to create unlimited music albums on their profile pages.

This new CB Gallery add-on replaces the previous CB Profile Gallery plugin and gives your users so much more.

When you install CB Gallery for the first time on your CB 2.0.6+ website it will automatically detect and migrate all CB Profile Gallery items that finds. This way your user uploads will remain intact in this new super-clean environment.

Discuss CB Gallery on our forums.

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Published: 03 February 2015

Last Updated: 03 February 2015

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The Next Generation Community Builder 2.0.0 was released 4 months ago. Since then we have been working on many fronts to reaffirm operational robustness and security, to increase our add-ons compatibility level and to help our worldwide users discover and take advantage of the tremendous flexibility offered in this new social networking platform. So we can with confidence state that:

It is time for everyone to fully embrace the Next Generation Community Builder 2.0.

During these past months we have made:

• 5 point releases of CB - we are now at Community Builder 2.0.5 (CB 2.0.6 is in progress)
• 11 previously commercial add-ons were rewritten and released as part of the Free Community Builder
• 21 add-ons have been completely rewritten/updated for CB 2.0 compatibility and over 30 maintenance releases for these have been issued
• our 4 Joomla templates have been upgraded for CB 2.0 compatibility and now use bootstrap
• CBSubs 4.0 RC1 is available for CB 2.0 (and CBSubs 4.0 stable is almost ready)
• A new awesome CB Gallery is in progress and is almost ready for release

In addition to the above we have:

• been releasing nightly builds with work in progress fixes for our major projects (CB, CBSubs, CB Auto Actions)
• established a new Language area on Joomlapolis and Transifex for CB and our add-ons and we are pushing new language plugins every week
• compiled over 50 video tutorials with hands-on simple explanations to help users quickly take advantage of CB 2.0 and key add-ons.

What's left is:

• the new CB 2.0 Primer documentation in the form of a PDF document (50% done)
• new CB Gallery 2.0 (in progress)
• new CB Activity 3.0 (to start right after CB Gallery release)
• new CB GroupJive 3.0 (complete rewrite in progress)
• CBSubs GPL 4.0 stable release (in progress)

You can get started with the existing versions that continue to function just fine on CB 2.0 and just easily upgrade to the latest releases when they are available.

There is no reason to wait for these last in progress releases. Community Builder 2.0.5 is very stable and fully compatible with the latest Joomla 3.3.6 (and upcoming Joomla 3.4) and very easy to upgrade from previous CB 1.9.1 installations. Therefore, all our maintenance efforts will be focused entirely on the CB 2.0 series.

Discuss this on our forums.

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Category: News

Published: 26 January 2015

Last Updated: 28 January 2015

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MyCommunity - Coolness - Funlite - Flexistrap
Our 4 Joomlapolis Templates are now CB 2.0 Compatible

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Our 4 super-fast and light-weight Joomla 2.5/3.x templates have been bootstrapped and updated for CB 2.0 compatibility.

The new versions of MyCommunity, Coolness, Funlite and Flexistrap include the following two major improvements:

• Templates will make your Joomla website look awesome on all viewing devices (desktop, tablet and mobile) as they been bootstrapped
• Now fully CB 2.0.5+ compatible without the need for extra CB template plugin since the Joomla template now has CB specific markup code included

These templates are available for download by all template subscribers and Developer members and they are GPL licensed so you can use them on all your Joomla websites!

Our templates can be purchased here and then downloaded from our templates download area or the Developers download area.

Discuss these new template releases on our forums.

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Published: 12 January 2015

Last Updated: 13 January 2015

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CB Auto Actions 6 is now CB 2.0 Compatible and supports 23 action types ready to help you implement your use cases without the need to code.

CB Auto Auto Actions lets you and your members save valuable time, by automating specific repetitive processes on your site.

It executes specific actions depending on specific events if specific conditions are met.

E.g. When a new user signs-up, you can automatically send an email to a specified manager depending on registration details. Or when a user updates profile data or logs-in, an activity counter can be incremented.

The 23 action types are: CB Activity, AcyMailing, CB Antispam, CB Blogs, CB Paid Subscriptions, Code (11 different methods), Connection, Content, Email, Field, CB GroupJive, CB Invites, K2, Kunena, Login/Logout, CB Menu, Private Message, CB Privacy, Query, Redirect, Registration, Request, Usergroup.

Configuring an auto action involves the following steps:

1. Select one of the 23 available action types
2. Decide the user events and environment that will trigger the execution of your action
3. Optionally set extra conditions that need to be present
4. Configure your action (based on type selected)
5. Enable your auto action

There are virtually infinite possibilities and combinations available with this awesome Professional membership tool.

To help and inspire you, we have prepared a CB Auto Actions video tutorial playlist that currently has 5 short and sweet videos but many more are in the pipeline - so subscribe to our video channel now.

Discuss this on our forums.

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Category: News

Published: 07 January 2015

Last Updated: 08 January 2015

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The Community Builder extension has been around even before the birth of Joomla and it's being used on millions of websites worldwide. And most of all it is both free as in beer (no cost to download) and free as in freedom (GPL).

This free status is not easy to maintain as there are many cost elements involved and many moving targets to track. So, no matter how free spirited we are there will always be the reality of expenses and the need for a commecrial aspect that funds and keeps the project going.

The CB Team and the entire Joomlapolis community -THANK YOU- have been doing a great job of keeping Community Builder powerful and free and very secure.

The next generation Community Builder 2.0 series has incorporated 11 previously commercial add-ons into its core - yes these add-ons are now included in the free CB 2.0+ releases.

The previously commercial add-ons now in CB 2.0 are:

1. CB Ajax File field
2. CB Rating field
3. CB Admin Navigation module
4. CB Forums
5. CB Blogs
6. CB Articles
7. CB Ajax Points
8. CB Bootstrap template
9. CB Video Field
10. CB Password Strength
11. CB Verify Email

Community Builder 2.0 with these extended features and its new mobile ready user interface is just plain awesome!

See for yourself watching our 40+ short and sweet CB 2.0 Video tutorials and then consider upgrading to any one of our 12 month paid membership levels to get even more add-ons and great support and of course contribute to keep Community Builder free and powerful.