Community Builder is a free Joomla component for creating a social network.
Component Description
The component has hundreds of built-in functions and additional (free or commercial) extensions that will help you create a site tailored to your specific needs. Community Builder also has a powerful built-in API, providing ample scope for extending and enhancing the Joomla social network.
Features and capabilities
- Create profiles for your users.
- Identify users by any field from the profile.
- Add avatars to profiles.
- Ability to add unlimited number of fields in Community Builder profile (text, image, text field, HTML editor, checkbox, multi-select, drop-down list, drop-down list, radio, date, email, web links, etc.).
- Custom fields that will be read-only for viewing the profile.
- Control basic user data (required fields, such as email, username, etc.), and Ajax-checking of email and username for availability.
- Checking the correctness of custom fields.
- Ability to organize fields into bookmarks.
- Ability to create an extended registration form.
- Ability to log in using an email address and password.
- Ability to connect profiles.
- Ability to show the connection between the viewed profile and the owner up to the 6th level of connections.
- Ability to add users to the blacklist.
- Ability for community members to communicate via email or the built-in private messaging system.
- Built-in integration with Joomla articles.
- Built-in integration with the Kunena forum.
- Using the built-in integration with the uddeIM messaging system.
Community Builder Basic Package
- Component (universal for all Joomla versions).
- Community Builder Workflow authorization module.
- 43 pages of installation and configuration guide.
Distributing Community Builder
This extension is distributed free of charge, there is an official Russian localization. You can download the Community Builder component from the developer's website.