Protect your Community Builder websites against spammers with the new CB Antispam plugin.
The new CB Antispam plugin is by far the most complete and versatile services independent protection mechanism available for Joomla websites.
Just install and publish it as a CB plugin and you can configure it to:
- Human challenge your CB forms (registration, login, forgotten password, email messaging) with Captcha image with audio playback and refresh button (also supports recaptcha and question mode)
- Automated duration configurable (e.g., 1 hour, 1 week, etc.) blocking of IP after failing registration or login (X failed attempts in Y duration)
- Automated duplicate registration blocking based on existing registrations from single IP (e.g., useful to block multiple free promotional trials)
- Stop or limit account sharing (e.g., single login session per account at any given time)
- Frontend blocking of spammer (account, IP, email, email domain) account for moderators visiting spammer CB profile
These are extremely powerful features that will help you manage multiple forms of spamming.
The new CB Privacy 2.0 release is now available with many new features including frontend user requested account removal and general profile privacy settings.
Release 2.0 is a complete rewrite that supports all previous features and versions (upgrade automatically recognizes all previous version configurations) with the addition of the following new features:
- Let your users completely remove their accounts on your website with
the new 'Close My Account' link in their user profiles - Users can also disable their accounts with
the new 'Disable My Account' link - Administrator can specify default privacy settings for entire profile with
the new Profile Privacy field - Notify users and moderators when accounts are disabled or removed
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Administrator can specify default privacy settings for profiles, fields and tabs
CB Privacy 2.0 is available to all Advanced, Professional and Developer members from the Advanced Download area and as with all our latest add-ons it works on all versions of Joomla including the latest Joomla 3.1 beta 2 release.
The CB Facebook Connect 3.0 and CB Twitter Connect 3.0 plugins have just been released as free upgrades for all Advanced, Professional and Developer members.
Both can be downloaded from the: Advanced Download area.
Recently Twitter has changed their integration protocol breaking all previous integration plugins.
The new releases are now significantly faster (quicker page loading) and now have less conflicts with other social scripts that may be also present on your website. Kyle has rewrittent both CB Twitter and CB Facebook connect plugins to use their own internal javascript libraries.
Open your website to millions of users with CB Facebook and Twitter Connect that enable your users to register and/or login on your website using their Facebook or Twitter credentials. If you are a Professional or Developer member you should use CB Connect 4.0 instead as it supports more social networks and also supports (Facebook and Twitter) social applications.
Upgrading is a simple install over existing previous versions. No changes need to be made on the Facebook or Twitter application side. Documentation has also been updated.
And as with all our CB plugins, these work natively on all versions of Joomla - even the latest Joomla 3.1 beta 1 !
Community Builder 1.9 is required for both plugins.
CB Connect 4.0 has just been released!
The already extremely powerful social networking integration plugin for Community Builder has been completely rewritten with faster page loading, new responsive layouts, improved registration workflows and better compatibility with third-party social networking scripts.
All core CB Connect features are supported including latest integration (login, field data syncing and 12 social apps) with:
- Google+
- Windows live
CB Connect 4.0 is a recommended upgrade.
Twitter has changed its protocols, thus breaking previous versions of CB Connect. The improved compatibility and non-conflicting nature of CB Connect 4.0 are also strong reasons to upgrade.
Kyle has already posted a detailed forum entry about this new release and major changes
The Joomla project has just released Joomla CMS 3.1 beta 1 and will be releasing Joomla 3.1 stable in a couple of weeks (March 25th, 2013).
There are 5 new features in Joomla 3.1. The most prominent one is the new Tags functionality for Joomla content elements. This new feature lets you tag (mark) any content element (article, contact, etc.) and later on search for all elements of a specific tag.
The CB Team has also contributed a small new feature by adding missing triggers to the com_config component - every little contribution helps make our Joomla CMS even better.
Everyone can help, you can also:
The Joomla community is hosting a Pizza, Bugs and Fun global event this upcoming Saturday, March 16th, 2013. This is a great opportunity to help make your Joomla better and in the process to learn how to test and report and you will certainly make many cool new friends in the process. And if you are in Boston, the pizza is on us !
We have been testing Joomla 3.1 beta 1 with Community Builder, GroupJive, CB Activity, CBSubs, our 3 Joomla/CB templates and all our 100+ add-ons and we have not found a single issue!
This is great news as it means that all our products can work on all Joomla versions!
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- GroupJive 2.7 released with 15 new features!
- GroupJive 2.6 released with new clean bootstrap look
- CB 1.9 released for Joomla 3.0
- CBSubs 2.0.2 and Developer API access released!
- Community Builder 1.8.1 Released!
- Joomla 2.5.5 released but not recommended
- New CB Core Fields Ajax plugin released!
- CB Blogs 3.0 Released!
- CB Facebook Connect 1.9 and Twitter Connect 1.4 Released
- CB Invites plugin 2.0 released!