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CB Antispam released with great protection tools

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.

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CB Bootstrap 2.1 responsive template plugin release !

Make Community Builder responsive with the new CB Bootstrap 2.1 template plugin!

It's new, it's clean, it's super cool and it looks great on phones, tablets and computers, with your responsive Joomla template !

The CB Bootstrap template gives your existing profiles, user lists, tabs, menus, pop-ups and plugins a modern fresh new look.

It also styles all of the Advanced CB Add-ons and Professional Incubator add-ons profile apps.

You will be pleasantly surprised by the result. See for yourself how awesome CB Bootstrap looks on the CB Quickstart PRO demo site.

The new CB Bootstrap 2.1 template plugin is just one of the 43 add-ons available to Professional/Developer members and it also works great with our Joomlapolis Joomla 3.0 responsive templates.

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CB Privacy 2.0 with new account removal feature released!

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

• 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.

CB Facebook and Twitter Connect 3.0 released!

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.