I'd just like to give a nice new years update on what's currently in the works to keep everyone informed on how things are going and some of our plans for the future.
Currently a new stable release of CB SEO is being worked on to bring great new SEO features. Several improvements have been made to core schemas, new Joomla events for extending schema AND opengraph will also be available to help automate SEO from CB plugins and Joomla extensions, and new schema types are coming (over 130 types!!).
After CB SEO a major release of CB Gallery is planned. I'm hoping for this to be a big one like CB Activity, but should take substantially less time than CB Activity given its a much smaller plugin. The idea is to implement stored galleries like I've done with stored streams. This would centralize your gallery configuration and management so you don't feel like you're running all over the place and would greatly improve access controls to galleries.
After CB Gallery we'll reveal an update on our CB 3.0 development plans in detail. We've put a lot of time into testing different directions to take CB and have settled on an optimal path going forward that'll greatly improve core CB and all our plugins capabilities, look, and feel. We really want CB to feel like it has always existed in your Joomla install and we'll have details regarding this after CB Gallery has released. I do apologize for being a bit silent on all this, but rest assured we have been happily coding away, testing, and designing!
Now I'd like to ask the community something. What would YOU like to see from us? New plugin ideas? Feature ideas for existing plugins? Please give us your feedback! We'd love to know your goals with CB for 2025 so we can better provide for you.
