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Category: News

Published: 01 December 2014

Last Updated: 01 December 2014

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See the huge benefits of CB Privacy in action in
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CB Privacy 4.0 gives you full control to deploy your privacy strategy on your website for your user profiles and user lists.

Fully compatible with the Next Generation Community Builder 2.0, CB Privacy 4.0 is a powerful tool to manage the privacy of user profile content.

Here are 4 huge benefits that CB Privacy gives you:

• Let your members decide who sees their profile data (specific fields or tabs, or even entire profile)
• Setup private content field or tabs for users on their profiles by specifying "private" as the default privacy setting for this content
• Empower your users to delete or disable their accounts and data from your website
• Keep track, monitor and administer all your user privacy settings from backend administration page.

 Here is a short list of configurable features:

• Turn on privacy for viewing or editing a field or tab basis
• Enable privacy for entire profile view
• Configure initial default privacy settings for each case
• Let moderators control privacy settings from frontend
• Force privacy control for specific field or tab to default value (instead of allowing user to select privacy level)
  
• Configure settings to allow users to disable and/or delete themselves

This awesome add-on is demonstrated and explained in our short and sweet CB Privacy tutorials and is available to Advanced, Professional and Developer members.

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Published: 17 November 2014

Last Updated: 17 November 2014

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Getting up to speed with the powerful next generation Community Builder 2.0 is now super easy and fun.

Since the 2.0 release, we have been publishing a new short video tutorial every day on our Joomlapolis Video Channel.

Today we published tutorial # 21 and we intend to keep publishing as often as possible (so make sure to subscribe to our channel) to help our community harness the incredible power and flexibility that Community Builder 2.0 provides.

Keep in mind that all Community Builder 2.0 administrative pages now have a Help button that leads to a handy online help page and also make sure you take advantage of our new Community Builder Getting Started articles.

Our current CB 2.0 Tutorials playlist has the following tutorials:

1. Short tutorial covering first steps to install CB 2.0 on a Joomla 3.x website
2. Short tutorial covering basic CB User Profile page updates in frontend and also adding menu links to the Joomla User menu
3. Backend and frontend registration processes and approval workflows
4. Creating our first user list and making our Joomla menu for user lists publishing
5. Grid user list with profile image and canvas image variations
6. Getting started with list searching
7. Creating our first CB Field - Gender radio button field
8. Getting started with Field Layouts and CB Substitutions
9. Configuration options for uploaded profile images - how to get perfect squares and have circle images
10. User List wrap-up - extra settings and Joomla menu to single list
11. Terms and Conditions field and how to configure it
12. A first look into Community Builder Tabs
13. The CB Articles plugin and how it works
14. The Joomla CB Author bot plugin and how to link author of article back to author's CB profile page
15. First look at CB Blogs and Internal storage mode
16. CB Blogs and Joomla storage mode
17. Exploring the Date field type
18. File and Video fields
19. Single select dropdown and multi-select checkbox fields and user list searching
20. The new 6-in-1 CB Online module
21. uddeIM Private Messaging integration

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Category: News

Published: 07 November 2014

Last Updated: 10 November 2014

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CB Invites 4.0 is here and ready to empower your members to invite their friends to your website.

Fully compatible with the Next Generation Community Builder 2.0, CB Invites 4.0 is a great tool to help you increase your members.

Here are 3 huge benefits that CB Invites gives you:

• Let your members send personalized invitations to their friends to join your website
• Create a by-invitation-only website (all you need to do is to make the Invite Code field required)
• Keep track, monitor and administer all your website invitations from backend administration page.

 Here is a list of configurable features:

• Customize invitation email with your website information and quick sign-up links
• Let users include their personal invitation message (text or HTML)
• Limit access to specific Joomla ACL groups
• Set maximum number of active invites per user
• Specify number of days between resending of pending invites
• Captcha protect invitation form (needs CB Antispam)

This fantastic add-on tool that empowers your existing members to attract even more people to your website is available to Professional and Developer members.

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Published: 04 November 2014

Last Updated: 04 November 2014

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CB Connect 6.0 is here and it now supports eleven (11) social networks!

Fully compatible with the Next Generation Community Builder 2.0, CB Connect 6.0 is your next generation social networking integration tool.

Totally rewritten for the new CB 2.0 XML MVC AhaWow engine technology, CB Connect opens up your website to millions of social networking users from the following providers:

Facebook • Twitter • Linkedin

Windows Live • Google • Instagram

Foursquare • GitHub • VKontakte

Steam • Tumblr

This super rich add-on not only lets users sign-up on your website using their social network credentials, but it can also grab (end-user authorization needed of course) social profile related data and map it to your Community Builder fields.

New Registration Prefill Feature

You can also configure CB Connect 6.0 to show the user a pre-filled (with data taken from the social network) registration form. This way your users can quickly complete your website registration form and accept your specific terms and conditions. Users are free to confirm prefilled data or make changes if they want.

Different registration workflows can be configured based on social network used (e.g., facebook users do not need moderator approval, twitter users must confirm their email, etc.).

Forgot to mention that you can also automatically place users in specific Joomla user groups based on the social network they used to sign-up and you can redirect users to your own specific landing page once again based on their social network selection. Plus there is a linking feature to let your already logged in users link their website account to their social network for quick single-click future logins.

This super add-on is just one of the many great additiions that are available to all Advanced, Professional and Developer members.

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Published: 06 October 2014

Last Updated: 06 October 2014

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Joomla 3.3.6 and Joomla 2.5.27 have been released.

Both packages are high priority security releases. So, all Joomla 3.X websites should upgrade to Joomla 3.3.6 and all Joomla 2.5 series to Joomla 2.5.27.

According to the Joomla technical requirements, the Joomla 3.3.6 release will only work on PHP versions 5.3.10 or better. Here is a quick summary that will help you decide:

If your website is using

• a Joomla 2.5.X version, you should update to Joomla 2.5.27 and plan to update to Joomla 3.X as soon as possible since support for Joomla 2.5 stops end of this year.
• a Joomla 3.3.X version, you should update to Joomla 3.3.6.
• a Joomla 3.2.X version (because 3.2.X still supports PHP 5.3.1 through 5.3.9), you should update to Joomla 3.2.7.

As usual backup before upgrading your Joomla websites and verify that all third party extensions (including your template) are compatible.

And yes, CB 1.9.1 and CB 2.0 RC3 (needs at least PHP 5.3.3 and MYSQL 5.1) both work great on these new Joomla releases !

In case you upgraded to 2.5.26/3.2.6/3.3.5

If you had previously upgraded to one of the "short-lived" 2.5.26/3.2.6/3.3.5 releases in which an upgrader bug slipped in, you will notice that the one-click upgrade method will not work to upgrade to 2.5.27/3.2.7/3.3.6. Instead, you would need to use one of the alternative upgrade methods B or C.

Shellshock is a real threat

Disclosed on September 24th, 2014, Shellshock, also known as Bashdoor, is a family of security bugs affecting the widely used Unix Bash shell. Simply put, this bug allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on hosting environments using unpatched Bash shells.

Security wise, this ia as bad as it gets and the potential harm that can be inflicted is enormous. Everyone needs to take action now to either patch their hosts as needed or make sure that their hosting environments are secure.

So, if you are in charge of maintaining a host that has a Unix Bash shell, you need to patch it now. Also make sure that you upgrade all your computers and network and any other embedded equipment that might contain bash. Also old ones, since that security bug is present and got unnoticed since 22 years.

Even though you might not be aware that you are using a Bash shell, your webserver environment might be using it to execute your Joomla PHP.

If you have a website that is being hosted somewhere, you need to contact the host helpdesk and confirm that your environment is secure against this bug.