The CB Team is proud to announce the public release of Community Builder 1.2.1
Besides fixing various issues identified in CB 1.2, this CB release has totally restructured its integration with the Joomla (1.0 series) native forum Kunena 1.0.10 (also released today).The CB and Kunena teams have been in close collaboration to make this exciting new integration possible. We believe that this cooperation of these two opensource extension teams has created a very powerful combination allowing CB fields to be displayed in the forum sidebar location. Website administrators can totally alter the appearance and content of the forum sidebar adding HTML based content personalized with CB field values taken from the CB user profile of the forum poster. As CB (as of version 1.2) is Joomla native (both 1.0 and 1.5 series) and Kunena has reaffirmed its commitment to provide a Joomla 1.5 native version, we believe that the co-existence of these two opensource extensions will bring great value to both communities.
CB 1.2 sites are urged to upgrade to CB 1.2.1 and take advantage of this remarkable integration.
The CB Team would like to thank the Kunena team for its collaboration during this joint development period and at the same time request both communities to support these projects (by becoming CB documentation subscribers and/or donating).
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After less than 3 weeks from the release of CBSubsTM the CB Team is releasing version 1.0.1 a maintenance release with a few features. All identified issues have been corrected. Changes have been made to the CB Field/Tab Protect integration plugin, to the VirtueMart integration plugin (shopper groups now supported) and also to the Folder Protect integration plugin (fixed).
There is also a new documentation package (now over 240 pages) with many use cases to help people better understand the truly remarkable power of this system.
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After over 2 full years of research, development and testing the CB Team is proud to announce the public release of version 1.0 of the Community Builder Subscriptions System - CBSubsTM.
We needed a social membership management and payment solution to handle our documentation subscriptions, and also donations and other products. We wanted it easy to use, fairly priced, fully automated. Well, a community memberships management solution. And of course all of that in a single, very flexible, powerful package, fully integrated with CB, Joomla and many other extensions, without any hacks. That simply didn't exist, so we decided to build our own from the ground up, using modern web-development methodology. We also decided to not only build it for ourselves, but to make it very solid so that it can be used by many busy sites for huge online communities, or real communities. Well, up to today, such a beast simply didn't exist...
CBSubsTM is an extremely powerful and flexible system that will turn any CB 1.2 powered environment into a money making engine. The possibilities are endless and the application framework built into the system will allow even more features and capabilities in the near future.
We are very excited with this first release as we feel it is breaking all current barriers prohibiting affordable e-commerce business scenarios built over Joomla and Mambo websites. Your CB 1.2 powered website with the addition of CBSubsTM will be able to offer subscription based services, merchandise items and donation collections under the same environment.
Here are only some of the scenarios now possible using CBSubsTM:
- Template Clubs
Most of us have seen the template club websites that have been offering access to their template repositories as a paid subscription based service. We have seen packages like 'Silver Plan' gives unlimited access to our download template repository for X1 USD for Y1 months. Or 'Gold Plan' gives access to template and module repository for X2 USD for Y2 months, etc. You can now do something similar by using CBSubsTM and your favorite download component (DOCman or Remository).
- Merchandise Sales
The CB Team has been using CBSubsTM to sell its MyCommunity Template package. It is offered as a Merchandise plan that can be purchased again and again by the same member. This is because the specific item is purchased on a per website license basis.
- Donations
Along with subscription plans and merchandise plans, CBSubsTM also supports Donation plans. Users can donate as often as desired and at fixed amounts or open amounts.
The CBSubsTM release 1.0 package is comprised of:
- The main CBSubsTM CB plugin
- the CBSubsTM module
- the CBSubsTM CMS content protection plugin (mambot)
- 15 integration plugins
- detailed documentation (over 200 pages!)
Take a look at the overview and the features, check out the integration plugins and read the testimonials. Look at our flexible pricing model, license and purchase process and decide to take the next step and take your CB 1.2 stable site to the next level!
Buy a CBSubs license and add it to your CB 1.2 site.
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Build powerful subscription websites with Community Builder Subscriptions
After over 2 full years of research, development and testing the CB Team is proud to announce the public release of Community Builder Subscriptions System - CBSubsTM.
At Joomlapolis, we dreamed of an "automatic money making machine" to handle our documentation subscriptions, donations, and other product sales and delivery. We wanted it easy to use, extremely flexible and fully automated.
We needed a social membership management and payment solution to handle our documentation subscriptions, and also donations and other products. We wanted it easy to use, fairly priced, fully automated. Well, a community memberships management solution. And of course all of that in a single, very flexible, powerful package, fully integrated with CB, Joomla and many other extensions, without any hacks. But it didn't exist.
Something that sells subscriptions for you, collects the money for you, delivers memberships, E-documents to your site members, gives access to premium areas of your site, securely and automated!
But it didn't exist.
So we decided to build our own from the ground up, using modern web-development methodology. We also decided to not only build it for ourselves, but to make it very solid so that it can be used by many busy sites for huge online communities, or real communities. Well, up to today, such a beast simply didn't exist...
CBSubsTM is an extremely powerful and flexible system that will turn any CB 1.2 powered environment into a money making engine. The possibilities are endless and the application framework built into the system will allow even more features and capabilities in the near future.
We are very excited with this first release as we feel it is breaking all current barriers prohibiting affordable e-commerce business scenarios built over Joomla and Mambo websites. Your CB 1.2 powered website with the addition of CBSubsTM will be able to offer subscription based services, merchandise items and donation collections under the same environment.
Buy a CBSubs license and add it to your CB 1.2 site.
Over 15 integration plugins are currently available, everything from affiliates integration to google analytics tracking, 5 payment gateways (PayPal and Authorize.net auto-recurring payments included), built-in content and components protection (ACL), recurring payment handling, offline payments, email automation and much more exciting features described in detail in the 200+ pages manual.
Some of the scenarios now possible using CBSubs:
These are just simple examples, and can be combined, allowing for easy upsells, sometimes acting as "turnover-doublers"
Template Clubs
Most of us have seen the template club websites that have been offering access to their template repositories as a paid subscription based service. We have seen packages like 'Silver Plan' gives unlimited access to our download template repository for X1 USD for Y1 months. Or 'Gold Plan' gives access to template and module repository for X2 USD for Y2 months, etc. You can now do something similar by using CBSubsTM and your favorite download component (DOCman or Remository).
Merchandise Sales
The CB Team has been using CBSubsTM to sell its MyCommunity Template package. It is offered as a Merchandise plan that can be purchased again and again by the same member. This is because the specific item is purchased on a per website license basis.
Donations
Along with subscription plans and merchandise plans, CBSubsTM also supports Donation plans. Users can donate as often as desired and at fixed amounts or open amounts.
The CBSubsTM release 1.0 package is consists of:
- The main CBSubsTM CB plugin
- the CBSubsTM module to display status, upgrades available and incentive messages
- the CBSubsTM CMS content, components, menus, modules and URLs access protection plugin (mambot)
- 15 integration plugins covering a vast range from affiliates integration to google analytics
- detailed documentation (over 200 pages!)
- a floating license number for the number of sites in license, plus 1 development or test site. License is not bound to a sitename.
Take a look at the overview and the features, check out the integration plugins and read the testimonials. Look at our flexible pricing model, license and purchase process and decide to take the next step and take your CB 1.2 stable site to the next level!
Buy a CBSubs license and add it to your CB 1.2 site.
The CB Team has just packaged a number of CB Plugins in RC status and released them to all documentation subscribers. These RC packages include:
- CB Profile Gallery 1.2 RC (plugin and module) - for CB 1.2 stable (Joomla 1.0/1.5 & Mambo native)
This release improves the user interface and all the identified issues have been fixed. Now CB jQuery lightbox is used to avoid javascript template conflicts (you can see this in action on our MyCommunity template demo sites). - CB Profile Book 1.2 RC (plugin and new module) - for CB 1.2 stable (Joomla 1.0/1.5 & Mambo native)
This release has added some very nice and powerful features that will make community building with CB even better. The new Profile Book plugin now has 3 associated tab - the existing ProfileBook tab that gives your profile owner a guestbook/rating functionality, a new ProfileBlog tab that adds blogging to your profile without the need for extra components and the new ProfileWall tab that allows members and visitors to post messages on the same wall in a CB tab. Each tab can be published by the admin and enabled/disabled by the profile owner. Captcha support has been integrated for visitors, as well as management of a "NEW" status with CB login module integration. Finally the user interface and design has been uplifted. (You can see all of this in action on our MyCommunity template demo sites). - CB Captcha 2.2 RC3 (for doc subscribers only) - this update adds even more anti-spam controls to captcha generation and control making it even more difficult for spam bots to register, login and so on.
- CB Autowelcome 1.2 RC3 (plugin) - this update adds no new features but makes things fully compatible with CB 1.2 and thus also Joomla 1.5 native.
- CB Content module 1.2 RC - this module is currently offered with our MyCommunity package and is now offered for documentation subscribers (will be publically released for free along with rest of CB Team plugins when stability is reached). The module allows you to place the CB user menu items in a CMS module (you can see this in action on our MyCommunity template demo sites)
The stable versions of Profile Gallery, ProfileBook and AutoWelcome plugins will be released to the general public for free when the RC phase is finished. Until then, they are provided to the documentation subscribers as another "THANK YOU" for their generous support.
All the above plugins are currently available in the documentation subscriber download area. More plugins will follow these very soon.
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- MyCommunity Template Released!
- CB 1.2 RC4 Publically Released
- CB 1.2 RC2 Released to doc subscribers and supporters
- CB 1.2 RC Released to doc subscribers and supporters
- Captcha 2.0 Released for Documentation Service Subscribers
- Joomla 1.5 RC2 Released!
- CB 1.1 Released!
- Community Builder 1.0.2 Released
- Joomla 1.5 beta released - CB 1.0.2 pre-announcement
- Advanced Search Component Version 2.0.4 released