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Published: 24 August 2016

Last Updated: 24 August 2016

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Community Builder is here with 9 new features and 15 bug fixes
Download it now - it's free and super stable and Joomla 3.6 ready!

Community Builder 2.0.15 is here and has 9 new features and 15 bug fixes.

The key features include:

• Profile editing tab ordering now its own ordering parameter
• Internal URL support for direct tab focus for viewing or editing
• Forgot login and sign-up links can now be rendered as buttons in CB Login module

The full list of features and bug fixes is available in our discussion thread below.

Community Builder continues to be one of the most well maintained projects in the Joomla universe. We continuously release free nightly builds when we fix bugs of add new features. This way our huge community is able to test these changes and give quick feedback. This helps the project produce robust bug free code for the millions of Joomla websites using Community Builder.

All of this is made possible with the financial support provided by paid members. Paid Membership offers great benefits with many powerful add-ons and fantastic forum driven same/next business day responses. A big Thank You to all our paid members and to all contributors of CB!

CB 2.0+ websites can be upgraded to latest CB 2.0.15 using the built-in Joomla upgrader or with a simple install over (precautionary backup always recommended) as all previous settings are kept.

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Published: 05 August 2016

Last Updated: 16 August 2016

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Joomla 3.6.2 is here and works fine with Community Builder

Almost one day after a Joomla 3.6.1 security release, the Joomla project released Joomla 3.6.2 as a quick follow-up bug fix release.

The combined releases address nearly 150 bug fixes and some medium/low priority security issues.

Important: Before upgrading to Joomla 3.6.2 make sure that you first upgrade all your components, including core "Joomla! Update Component Update" component. To do so:

1. go to menu: Extensions / Manage / Upgrade
2. Click "Find updates" button
3. Select your extensions to upgrade, but at least "Joomla! Update Component Update" (its latest version at press time is 3.6.1)
4. Click "Upgrade" button

Once you have upgraded the extensions, you can safely upgrade Joomla to 3.6.2.

In the seldom case where the last stage of the Joomla upgrade (database upgrade) would fail, no worries, go to menu: Etensions/ Manage / Database, then click the Fix button.

In the very seldom case where you are missing extension installation methods tabs, go to menu Extensions / Manage / Discover then click "Discover" button, select the installer plugins and click the "Install" button.

We have been testing Joomla 3.6.2 with our latest Community Builder 2.0.14 and everything works great!
As always, we recomend to upgrade your websites on a cloned environment and test everything before you take a full backup and apply Joomla upgrade on your productions sites.

A great resource you can follow is the Joomla 3.6.2 FAQ article that contains all the latest findings / issues identified by the Joomla project concerning this new release.

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Published: 20 July 2016

Last Updated: 16 August 2016

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CB Package Builder with frontend management

This is by far the best download manager for Joomla!

We have developed and used CB Package Builder internally since 3 years for your packages downloads here on Joomlapolis. We are now using it for all your downloads, including all PDF files, showing latest version numbers in Joomla content and showing releases history. As it has become an awesome general-purpose downloads manager, we are now releasing it in its latest version 5.1.

CB Package builder has many features that you can discover in its product page.

Version 5.1 has many awesome new features that let you create and manage your membership downloads.

Here is a list of key features that you can actually experience - first hand - on Joomlapols and our demo site:

• Chose from 12 package types to fine-tune your user's download experience (Package, Library, Component, Plugin, Module. Language, Template, CB Plugin, Query, Script, Override, Custom).
• Use optional package sub-types to categorize packages when presented to users (e.g., see Free sub-types on our download page).
• Configure package version extraction directly from package filename with previous versions download support (e.g. filefolder/cb200-Primer_*.pdf - the * area will be used to extract version - see our Community Builder download version dropdown selection for example).
• Create presets comprized of multiple package that your users can download and install on their Joomla site as a single Joomla extension install (try this out on our demo site where you can login as an administrator)
• Let your authorized users maintain or add new packages from frontend (without need for administrative area login privileges - experience this also on our demo site and see relevant screenshots included further down).
• Drag and drop file uploading and frontend version deletion (experience this on demo site and check out screenshot below)

These are just some of the features avaiable in our latest CB Package Builder which comes with its own Joomla module, Joomla plugin and CB Paid Subscription integration plugin (to require active subscription for package download).

Here are some additional screenshots illustrating some of the previously mentioned features that - once again - you can experience first hand on our demo site and discuss this exciting new release on our forums!

CB Package builder is available to all Developer Members or as a single-item purchase.

Frontend editing of existing packages


Frontend drag and drop new version uploading or old version deleting

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Published: 12 July 2016

Last Updated: 16 August 2016

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Joomla 3.6 is here and works fine with Community Builder !
-> See our Joomla 3.6.0 FAQ for more info and known issues <-

After 2 release candidate rounds - that the CB Team has been testing against our latest Community Builder 2.0.14 - the Joomla project has released its version 3.6 stable package.

This new Joomla release has lots of bug fixes and quite a few - 400 !!! - improvements that make everyone's day to day Joomla usage easier.
Here are siome of the highlighted features:

• Joomla update can now do a reinstall for you reverting back to default code.
• Usability improvements that help you find things easier and get things done quicker with dropdown task execution.
• New Sub form field function for developers to take advantage of.  Developers should read this as nested forms and enhanced repeatable fields.
• On the fly category creation will make content editors very happy as they could just create a new item and a new category in the same process.
• Menu type ACL gives even more control to fine-tune permissions on backend menus.
• New option to show all items from all menus gives you a quick overview of what is displayed where on your website. It has never been easier to spot duplicated links, missing menu items or just get an overview of every menu on your site.

The Joomla team has made a great Joomla 3.6 microsite highlighting all the main features and even more items can be seen in the Joomla 3 FAQ as well as a more technical list on the project's GitHub repository. So, there are many features for you to explore and remember that Community Builder 2.0.14 works fine with this new Joomla release!

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Published: 22 June 2016

Last Updated: 16 August 2016

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Visit our demo site and see our products in action!

We are very proud and excited to complement our New Joomlapolis website with a fully functional and fully loaded Joomlapolis demo site.

The demo site gives you a great look at just some of the many features of Community Builder and our Add-ons.

So, visit our demo site, select the Community Builder menu feature item or the Add-ons menu item you are interested in. You can also use the direct login buttons to explore both frontend functionality and administrative area configurations.

The demo site is periodically reset to its initial state, so don't hesitate to experiment with settings and additional functionality of our installed products.