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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:
- Short tutorial covering first steps to install CB 2.0 on a Joomla 3.x website
- Short tutorial covering basic CB User Profile page updates in frontend and also adding menu links to the Joomla User menu
- Backend and frontend registration processes and approval workflows
- Creating our first user list and making our Joomla menu for user lists publishing
- Grid user list with profile image and canvas image variations
- Getting started with list searching
- Creating our first CB Field - Gender radio button field
- Getting started with Field Layouts and CB Substitutions
- Configuration options for uploaded profile images - how to get perfect squares and have circle images
- User List wrap-up - extra settings and Joomla menu to single list
- Terms and Conditions field and how to configure it
- A first look into Community Builder Tabs
- The CB Articles plugin and how it works
- The Joomla CB Author bot plugin and how to link author of article back to author's CB profile page
- First look at CB Blogs and Internal storage mode
- CB Blogs and Joomla storage mode
- Exploring the Date field type
- File and Video fields
- Single select dropdown and multi-select checkbox fields and user list searching
- The new 6-in-1 CB Online module
- uddeIM Private Messaging integration
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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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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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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.
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We have big news!
Next Generation Community Builder 2.0 will be released on October 9th, 2014.
And not only that, but all our add-on packages will also have new, CB 2.0-compatible, major releases same day !
Since the Community Builder 2.0 RC3 release we have been working full speed to prepare everything needed for this great stable release.
As the community is focusing on test case scenarions providing valuable test coverage feedback, the CB Team is concentrating on a number of important parallel tasks that will have a huge impact on the way we do things in the future.
So, ongoing call to action for all our paid-up members:
- Grab latest Community Builder 2.0 RC3 nightly release
- Test according to provided test case scenarios
- Post back feedback on our Community Builder 2.0 RC3 thread
The tasks we have been working on along with their progress status are:
- Help pages for CB 2.0.
Just like Joomla, each CB 2.0 page now has a Help button that will open a help page window for quick online assistance. As of today we have 11 (out of 22) help pages ready and should have the remaining ready very soon. This is our first step to migrating our documentation from pdf format to online HTML deployment. - New CB 2.0 compatible add-on releases.
As planned, we are working on getting our major plugins CB 2.0 ready. Beat is focusing on CBSubs and Kyle is pusing forward with everything else. We have already prepared 12 CB 2.0 compatible releases and are pushing forward as quickly as possible.
The following releases are ready for CB 2.0:- CB Query Field 4.0
- CB Core Fields Ajax 2.0
- CB Google Translate 3.0
- CB Gravatar Field 2.0
- CB Invites 4.0
- CB Progress Field 3.0
- CB Reconfirm Email 4.0
- CB Template Changer 3.0
- CB Content bot 3.0
- CB Author bot 2.0
- CB Search bot 2.0
- CB Content module 2.0
- Localization improvements.
In CB 2.0 we have dropped the legacy DEFINE structure language concept in favor of two PHP array files. A language.php for frontend translations and an admin_language.php for backend strings. We have already updated our CB Transifex project with these new resource files and our translation teams have been working to get their translations ready.
As our advanced and professional add-ons are becoming CB 2.0 compatible, we have been creating individual Transifex projects for each one of them and are calling upon our international community to move forward with translations.
>>> You can visit our language pages and join a translation team. <<< - Automation improvements.
A strategic decision and goal is to provide continuous integration releases for all our projects. Intention is to quicly push bug fixes and minor improvements using a nightly build process. No more waiting for next release or having to apply patches. The same is true for our transifex translation projects and we intend to automatically push nightly CB language plugins generated from our transifex projects.
As you can see there are many exciting concepts currently in progress targeting an overall user experience improvement for the entire CB community.
- Joomla 3.3.4 and 2.5.25 Security Releases
- Community Builder 2.0 RC date announcement
- Community Builder 2.0 Batch Processing Features
- Community Builder 2.0 Progress Report
- An awesome new look for Community Builder 2.0 !
- Back from #JAB14 and feeling great!
- Community Builder 2.0 presented at Joomla! Day France
- Joomla Conferences and JUG Presentations
- Executive summary: New Joomla release strategy impact analysis
- Joomla 3.2.3 and 2.5.19 security releases