Since CB Conditional 5.0.0 has officially released it's that time again to change tasks! There has been a lot of pressure to support on-site notifications. It's finally happening! Check out the details below.
Just another update as to what project I am focusing on at this time and future plans. I'm currently working on CB Connect 7.1.0 to bring you a couple new features but mostly new providers. Check out the details below!
More spam protection has arrived! New captcha modes, new ways to output captcha, and CB AntiSpam captcha throughout Joomla. A lot of great features now available and some under the hood improvements to better protect your site. Check out the details below.
CB Auto Actions 7.0.0 is officially completed. Some great new features have been added, new auto actions, new system actions, and large performance improvements! Check out all the great new stuff below.
It is finally, finally, finally, again release-time for CBSubs! CBSubs 4.1.1 is now out! What a nice feeling!
Kyle and I have been working on improving incrementally CBSubs 4.1.0 since it's release last year. those improvements have been released each usually within 24 hours of development in our famous "nightlies" continuous development and release strategy, allowing people to access always the latest and greatest releases, while removing a good deal of release-stress on the team.
But, by doing so, a number of improvements have been silently added without announcement, or with a small reply in the forum that make our users very happy. It has been a long time without a "non-nightly" "stable release". And it also does good to our team to blow our horn with new features and fixes we are proud of.
By the way, the word "stable" has no real meaning anymore, as a "nightly" after a "stable" release is often even more stable, as it has more up-to-date code and minor fixes.
So it was more than time to release a "stable" 4.1.1 version, based on our latest nightly release. That way, users that are either not familiar with the quality-process and reactivity of our nightly releases, or prefer semantic versions all-at-once upgrades, can also safely upgrade to this maintenance and minor features release.
Main new features are detailed in the CBSubs 4.1.1 announcement on our front-page and the CBSubs 4.1.1 change-log available in the discussion forum thread as usual. While there are many new gateways-oriented features, I would like to pinpoint just one great feature that can be of great interest to shop owners: It's Feature #6119. It adds to the automatic mailer integration plugin a new trigger based on Pending order's (Baskets)'s latest update time. That way if a basket gets an update by the user or by the Payment Services Provider (PSP - corresponding to the Gateway), an email informing the user can be triggered, just after the update, or after a while. It offers additional possibilities to follow-up with your customers.
Now that CBSubs 4.1.1 is released, I'll be working on CBSubs 4.2.0, which is a features-release implementing not only some popular demands (and by popular I mean by a large number of users requesting the feature), but also some cool and powerful new possibilities giving even more power in flexibility to CBSubs.
One of the most popular demands is a Stripe gateway, which is planed with single payments support for CBSubs 4.2 and that Kyle will be implementing. Another one that we are aiming to include is the support of plan options (the plugin that we are already using on our site here in our Services to select with drop-downs the type or duration of services purchased, but updated to be more flexible and easier to configure). This will allow you to have more flexibility within a plan, and thus need less plans configured for a given project. But there will be more new features yet to be announced.
From what users tell us, CBSubs is not only the most flexible and powerful memberships management solution for Joomla, but also the most robust and stable one. It has been running many thousands sites for years. And also this site's sales just fine and safely since over 9 years, allowing users to get their software, and our team to continue working full speed on Community Builder and add-ons, while putting food on our families' table. All of that open-source since many years now.
I want to give here a very special Thank You to all our paying members. You make a BIG difference in Community Builder and allow us to do what we like most: Providing you with very powerful and very flexible solutions to build your own website with great freedom.
We will continue improving CBSubs while keeping its stability and security, so that upgrades to CBSubs 4.2.0 and following will be easy, specially with the new CB Install-from-web upgrade feature.
We are always looking forward for your feedbacks! Happy site-building!
During the last couple of years I recorded many video tutorials to help users get started and feel comfortable with CB 2.0 and its add-ons.
Our youtube channel has over 200,000 views for the 73 videos and I am continuously getting thank you notes from people that have been enjoying these videos.
When I started out I would basically outline what I wanted to focus on in each video and would take it from there.
No real scenario was written and in many cases I would just go through the process and even run into stupid mistakes. But this actually worked out nicely as a learning experience as I would debug the issue in the video and figure out the cause and fix it!
I am now opening up the process and will create the next video tutorial based on what the community requests.
The process is simple. Just comment on this article outlining your proposal for my next video tutorial and let the users read and vote on your proposal by using the forum Thank You button. If you do not have a proposal, just read what other members proposed and give them your Thank You vote!
Let the process begin ;-)
It's that time again! I've begun major work on the next plugin on my task list. Currently it's CB Auto Actions. It is undergoing its major rewrite finally as version 7.0.0. A lot of improvements are on the way. From UX improvements, performance improvements, new functionality for actions, and more. Check out some of the details below.