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Save time downloading and installing your CB solutions by using the new CB Packager page!
Just choose the add-ons you need and create a single click installable Joomla (3.0, 2.5 or 1.5) package ready for installation or upgrade.
The CB Packager page, previously available only for paid members, is now also available for Free members.
The process is easy and simple:
- Go to the CB Packager page
- Select the Joomla version you want to create a package for
- Select the Community Builder component to reveal other add-ons
- Select one or more add-ons
- Click the Download button at bottom
- Install package using the Joomla extension installer
The packager page will automatically detect your membership privileges and will let you select which add-ons you want to package together to create your personal single installable download package for the Joomla version you want.
When the packager detects an add-on that is not included in your current membership, you will be given the option to upgrade or purchase the membership or package needed in order to access it.
The CB Packager remembers the packages you create and lets you name each package and give it a description. In the future you will be able to download the same package but with the latest updated individual elements.
Another nice feature of the new CB Packager is the support of package presets. The CB Quickstart Pro package is now configured as a preset package and can be downloaded from the packager page.
This way it will automatically pick up latest CB Quickstart PRO elements, so there is no need to wait for new CB Quickstart PRO releases when (for example) a new CB Activity plugin version is released.
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We are extremely excited and proud to announce and release CBSubs GPL 3.0 paid subscription membership management solution !
This is great news for everyone !
CBSubs GPL can be installed on an unlimited number of websites and can handle an unlimited number of users.
CBSubs GPL 3.0 also has many new features (see discussion thread for changelog) and it now has support for PayPal Pro and Google Checkout, PHP 5.4 and of course for Joomla 3.0.
We have spent a little over three years of live deployment and fine tuning of the CBSubs framework that is currently powering thousands of paid membership sites and our very own Joomlapolis website.
This way we have verified that CBSubs is a highly reliable, secure and robust paid subscriptions membership management solution. And now we are ready to offer this as a GPL licensed open-source product.
As of today we have implemented a long ago strategic decision to fully embrace the now proven open-source business model. Thus, we are no longer selling the CBSubs 2.0 proprietary licensed product and all existing CBSubs customers are highly recommended to migrate to the new GPL license.
We have put together a fair migration path for existing customers to migrate to the new CBSubs GPL product with unlimited users and unlimited sites and of course no longer needed ioncube loader (this migration promotion ends on Feb. 1st 2013):
- All existing or new Developer members get CBSubs GPL 3.0 as part of their subscription
- All existing CBSubs customer with lifetime maintenance can activate a free upgrade to a CBSubs GPL membership subscription
- All existing CBSubs customers with an active (as of today, Dec. 29th, 2012) maintenance period get a 75% discount to upgrade to CBSubs GPL 3.0
- All existing CBSubs customers with expired maintenance still get 50% off to upgrade to CBSubs GPL 3.0.
You can now get the new CBSubs GPL 3.0 release together with 12 months of maintenance and of course great forum support from the team experts by either purchasing a new CBSubs GPL membership subsciption or by becoming a Developer member.
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Did you know you can program GroupJive to create new groups or categories and also automatically place or remove users in/from groups?
This is one of the many powerful features that GroupJive provides to help membership sites fulfill their use case needs.
Here is a list of sample use cases that can be easily programmed using a GroupJive Automation:
- Company website automatically adds customers to product groups based on items selected during the registration process
- Political website places constituents in groups based on the voting area they declared
- Dancing club members immediately join relevant dancing groups (Disco, Rock & Roll, Tango, etc) right after they express interest
- Dating sites use matching interest criteria to place members in similar interest groups
These are just a few of the infinite use cases that can be supported.
A tutorial supporting the Political website use case has been created here.
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Joomla explicitly prohibits any two user accounts to use the same email address.
However, there are many community clusters that have a need to share and use a single email address. For example, church websites that want to support their constituents have issues with elderly members and families that typically do not have an email address for each individual.
Trying to modify Joomla (hacking) is not easy (no one has really succeeded) and is not recommended.
Creating a unique email address for each family member is an option that at least overcomes the (imo well justified) Joomla restriction. But in most cases this will just generate overhead for the Internet literate family member having for example to manage email address for other family members (elderly, infants, etc.).
>>> But there is a solution that does not hack Joomla and that makes things manageable also.
It is called email sub-addressing using +tag qualifier.
Most email servers support this (tested gmail, hotmail and our email server) little known cool feature.
How does it work?
Lets say you have an email address jonesfamily@example.com. With email sub-addressing the following email addresses are valid and of course unique for Joomla:
- jonesfamily+grandpa@example.com
- jonesfamily+grandma@example.com
- jonesfamily+babyboy@example.com
Any email sent to one of the above addresses will be delivered to the jonesfamily@example.com account but the to: address will retain the +tag part (so the email manager knows which tag was used).
Try it - it works and provides a great service for many communities that want to use Community Builder and Joomla for their websites and have hit the unique email address wall.
More about email and address tagging can be found on wikipedia.
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Empowering your community with organic user groups and private forum discussions will boost member participation on your website.
Group members love the ability to privately discuss matters of common interest withing their own group environment. A group wall does not satisfy this need as there is no discussion threading and new unrelated posts will just push relevant posts further down in the wall activity stream.
Private discussion forums for GroupJive group members is just one of the great integrations available between Community Builder based solutions and the Kunena forum extension.
With the supported integration, every GroupJive group is automatically given its own private Kunena forum area that supports discussions between group members.
Non-group members will not see this area when browsing the Kunena forum.
This integration feature is discussed in the Private Group forums with GroupJive and Kunena tutorial in our Free tutorials section.
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- The Joomla 3.0 and CB 1.9 executive report
- Boostraping our way to CB 2.0
- CB Quickstart PRO - the out of the box preconfigured social solution for Joomla!
- CB Author bot for Joomla 2.5 is back!
- New CB Activity streams encourage community participation
- Quality is like sex
- New Package Installer for our 101 add-ons!
- JAB12 aftermath and the bright future
- We're off to see the wizards
- CBSubs 2.0 is here with new powerful features!