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CB Connect 5.0 now supports 8 social networks

Not one, two or three, but eight social networking sites are supported with the latest CB Connect 5.0 release!

Let your users sign-up and login to your website using credentials from any one of the following social networking sites: Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Windows live, Googe +, Instagram, Foursquare or GitHub.

This is by far the most complete social networking integration solution available for Joomla (1.5, 2.5 and 3.x) / CB (1.9) as it not only supports login and registration using credentials from 8 social networks, but it also lets you:

• store social networking profile data in Community Builder fields
• place users in Joomla ACL groups based on social network
  e.g., users signing up using Instagram can be placed in Registered and special Instagram group
• override Community Builder workflow settings
  e.g., users signing in using their Foursquare credentials are automatically confirmed not needed moderator approval
• redirect new users to page based on social network
  e.g., Github credential signups are redirected to a special welcoming page

You can also integrate the following social network specific applications as CB fields on your user profiles:

• Facebook social plugins (comments, facepile, like-recommend-send buttons, activity feed and recommendations)
• Twitter widgets (tweet and follow buttons)
• Google plugins (+1 and share buttons and Google badge)
• Linked in plugin (shared button) 

CB Connect 5.0 is available to all Professional and Developer members and as of today it is also available to Advanced members replacing the CB Facebook and CB Twitter connect plugins which are now discontinued.

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JandBeyond 2013 - the day after

We are just back from a fantastic J and Beyond (JAB13) Joomla conference, with an awesomely positive forward-looking perspective for Joomla!

This is the fourth conference we have attended and sponsored as CB Team members and Joomlapolis, and the experience has been even more positive and stronger than all previous editions combined.

We urge Joomla fans to attend one of these events in the future as it will surely be a fantastic experience.

For those who missed JAB13, and also for those who were there, but didn't find the PHP class to clone themselves, all JAB13 Program presentations have been recorded and 38 are already available for viewing!

There are many very interesting and intriguing talks to view, but as Joomlapolis site members you should definitely not miss our presentations:

• Implementation without coding using Community Builder framework solutions
  See Video | See Slides
• SELECT SHOW, EXPLAIN, HOWTO, OPTIMIZE FROM jos_SPEED_ME_UP
  See Video

As a result of yet another great JandBeyond event, Joomla momentum is moving forward on a number of fronts:

• Bug squashing during the JAB13 event was both fun and productive!
  Join Bug Squad | See JAB13 Bug Squashing Video
• JUX workgroup | See workgroup meeting video at JAB13 | Participate in the Joomla 3.2 UX forum
• FOF Workshop for a new framework library to make Joomla extension development easier and backwards compatible

If all this energy and forward thinking mentality holds we anticipate that the future Joomla 3.2 release will include exciting new features and concepts like:

• content versioning
• improved user experience in backend
• better frontend editing
• possibly improved extensions installation
• profiling of database queries

Mark your calendars now for JAB14 which will take place May 14th - June 1st, 2014 !

Half a million members to thank!

We have just surpassed the 500,000 members mark on Joomlapolis.

This is totally awesome !

Community Builder has millions of live installations worldwide with over 60 million public user profiles (base: Google search)!

There are no words to express our gratitude and feelings towards our community, except for a huge:

THANK YOU !

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CB Auto Actions 4.0 released!

The new CB Auto Actions 4.0 plugin lets you implement powerful workflow and process automations with virtually no coding!

You can create unlimited automated actions and set them to get executed based on any one of over 400 event triggers from Community Builder, GroupJive, CBSubs, CB Activity, CB Privacy and CB Antispam.

Version 4 now has unlimited usage for appropriate actions (e.g., you can create a single Field action that modifies multiple fields), optional translation of conditional substitutions and new trigger drop-down selection with searching. Also, three new action types have been added (Menu, Antispam and Privacy). This means there are now 23 action types supported:

Activity, Acymailing, Antispam, CBSubs GPL 3.x, Code, Connection, Email, Field, Flyspray, GroupJive, K2, Kunena 1.7, Kunena 2.0, Login/Logout, Menu, Private Messages, Privacy, Redirect, Registration, Request, Usergroup Virtuemart 2.x

Here is a more detailed list of action types with basic usage concept: 

1. Activity action types let push new activity items to your activity stream (see tutorial example)
2. Antispam actions can be used to block or whitelist users, IPs, email address or entire domains
3. Field actions can be used to set, add, subtract, mulitply, divide, etc. CB Field values for users
4. CB Paid Subscriptions actions can be used to subscribe, renew, unsubscribe or delete users from CBSubs GPL 3.x subscription plans (see tutorial example)
5. GroupJive actions can be specified so users join or leave groups and can also be used to create new GroupJive groups or categories
6. Connection actions let you create CB Connections between users
7. CB Privacy action types let you add privacy rules to users (for profiles, fields, etc.)
8. Menu actions lets you add new items to CB user profile menus
9. Email actions can be configured to send (HTML or text) email messages with CC/BCC lists and file attachments. Emails can be configured to be sent from different accounts and servers.
10. Private Message actions let you send private messages to/from users
11. Usergroup actions let you add/remove users to/from specific Joomla ACL groups and you can also create new groups (see tutorial example)
12. Registration actions can be configured to automatically create new user accounts
13. Login/Logout actions can be configured to automatically login or logout a user
14. Redirect actions let you redirect users to specific URLs
15. Request actions execute specific URL targets (supports GET, POST, XML and JSON methods
16. Query actions can be created to execute (internal or external) database SQL statements (see tutorial example)
17. Code actions let you execute HTML, PHP (eval or create function), Javascript (inline or URL), jQuery, CSS (inline or URL), or load code to header, page title or pathway.
18. Kunena 1.7 actions
19. Kunena 2.0 actions (Kunena 3.0 also supported) can be used to create new forum categories
20. Acymailing actions can be used to add, remove, subscribe. unsubscribe users to/from Acymailing newsletter lists
21. K2 actions can be used to synchronize/delete users to K2 user groups
22. Virtuemart actions let you add/remove users to specific Virtuemart 2.x shopping groups
23. Flyspray actions let you integrate (user sync, add users to projects, etc.) your Joomla website with the popular open-source project management flyspray script

As you can see the list is huge and the potential is enormous. There are currently 4 use case tutorials (see linkes in list above) in our tutorials use cases section and many more examples on our forums. We are also preparing a related presentation for this years J and Beyond conference that we are Video sponsoring, so we will have many more examples to share.

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