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Category: News

Published: 15 October 2026

Last Updated: 15 October 2026

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We are thrilled to announce CB GroupJive 4.0.0, an important upgrade for your community site. CB GroupJive 4.0 brings blazing fast group pages, clean new grid views, new Photos and Videos displays and plain-text event messages. It is fully compatible with Joomla 6, Joomla 5 and Joomla 4, and the latest Community Builder 2.12. CB GroupJive lets your users organize themselves into groups around common interests.

Speed

The first highlight of this release is speed. Nearly every group list was rebuilt. On a test site with over 1 million groups and users, the All Groups page went from 2 seconds to less than 10 milliseconds. Small sites also benefit from these optimizations.

Grid Views

The second highlight is the new grid views. Most group pages now use a clean, modern grid layout.

• Group headers have larger names and easy-to-tap buttons on mobile
• Tabs under the group header use the same new style
• You can adjust the grid with CSS variables

Photos and Videos

• Group photos now look and feel like the latest CB Gallery
• Group videos use the CB Gallery Panels layout and open in a modal window
• For group photos, we recommend the CB Gallery integration

Events

• Event messages can now be plain text only
• The visual (WYSIWYG) editor now shows for event messages when HTML messages are enabled

Before You Update

CB GroupJive 4.0 requires Joomla 4 or newer. If CB Activity, CB Gallery or CB Auto Actions are installed on your site, UPDATE them to their latest releases too. If you use the CB Paid Subscriptions integration for GroupJive, also install the latest CBSubs build.

For Developers

• Templates are now plain layout files, like in Joomla, instead of classes and functions
• Several API calls moved to namespaced classes: please review custom code that calls the GroupJive API
• All onDisplay triggers (and a few others) no longer use $return by reference: your code returns its output

See all features on the updated CB GroupJive product page. For the details of this release, read Kyle's blog post and the full list of changes.

Active Professional and Developer members can UPDATE now with CB Install from Web. Explore a Professional or Developer Membership to get started with our extensive suite of Community Builder Add-Ons.

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Category: News

Published: 01 September 2026

Last Updated: 15 October 2026

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CB Core Fields Ajax 6.0 Released!

We're happy to announce the release of CB Core Fields Ajax 6.0.0, bringing hydration to your Community Builder profiles. Hydration shows the profile page first and loads the heavy parts right after. This release is fully compatible with Joomla 4, Joomla 5, Joomla 6, and the latest Community Builder 2.12. CB Core Fields Ajax makes tabs and fields editable right on profiles and userlists, and now profiles load faster too.

Profile Hydration

A profile tab or field can now render after the page has loaded, with an optional delay, or when the tab is selected. The page displays quickly and a small loader icon shows where content is coming.

• Hydrate whole profile tabs or individual fields
• The loader icon is template-driven and can be customized
• Works on your own profile and on visited profiles
• Settings are under Parameters > CB Core Fields Ajax in your tabs and fields

Faster with CB 2.12

Community Builder 2.12 also improved tab and field loading. With hydration added by CB Core Fields Ajax 6.0, your profiles can be packed with features and still be blazing fast.

Editor Fixes

• TinyMCE editor fields display again after closing and reopening an edit
• JCE editor fields no longer prevent modal windows from clearing

For detailed information about CB Core Fields Ajax and its capabilities, visit our product page or check out Kyle's detailed blog post. For the full list of changes, see the changelog. Explore a Professional or Developer Membership to get started with the full suite of community tools.

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Category: News

Published: 18 June 2026

Last Updated: 18 June 2026

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We're happy to announce the release of CB Activity 7.0.0, bringing significant improvements to access checks, activity post polls, search by date, new activity module display modes, and so much more. This release is fully compatible with Joomla 4, Joomla 5, Joomla 6, and the latest Community Builder 2.11. CB Activity is without a doubt the best activity, comment, and notification solution for Joomla!

Polls

• User defined polls easily added to any activity post
• Full community voting with total votes display and percentage based voting results
• Easily add or remove voting options with customizable voting option limits
• Configurable voting time frame to limit votes to a specific window (e.g. 1 day)

Filters

• Now enhanced with a Search By Date for before, after, and between date filtering
• Improved filter clear button for enhanced UX
• Support for stacking multiple filters to drill down posts

Module

• New Posts mode for displaying any activity posts anywhere outside of streams
• Hashtag Cloud for displaying clickable hashtags sized based off popularity
• Hashtag Popular List for displaying clickable hashtags in a nice ordered list based off popularity

Flair

• Category support allowing for cleaner organization and selection of post flair
• Exclusive flair to allow categories to only permit selection of 1 of its flair
• Hidden flair for programmatically added flair without allowing user selection

More!

• Comments now support sharing just like activity posts
• Automatic activity and comment post SEO metadata
• Improved post copy-paste behavior for inline mentions, hashtags, and link handling
• Improved hashtags and mentions dropdown responsiveness
• Post edit timeframe limits to restrict when a post can be edited
• Joomla Smart Search Indexer plugin for activity posts and comments

For detailed information about CB Activity and its capabilities, visit our product page or check out Kyle's detailed blog post, or explore a Professional or Developer Membership to get started with the full suite of community tools.

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Category: News

Published: 16 April 2026

Last Updated: 16 April 2026

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We're thrilled to announce the release of CB Gallery 4.0.0, bringing significant improvements to access checks, gallery display performance, new template, and substantially improved gallery module behavior. This release is fully compatible with Joomla 4, Joomla 5, Joomla 6, and the latest Community Builder 2.11. CB Gallery remains the best gallery extension you can have for your Joomla site!

Major Features

Moving

• Move media seamlessly from album to album
• Move all media within an album to another album

Sharing

• Share media and edit media title and description directly inside of article edit
• Share module media directly inside of module edit
• Fields can now directly have media shared into them from profile edit
• Gallery tab can have media shared directly into it from profile edit

Moderation

• Moderation hover previews for easy quick glance
• Moderation approval and rejection directly from modal windows

Display

• Search directly in gallery modules using media mode
• Paginate directly within gallery modules using media mode
• Brand new "Shorts" template providing a 16/9 mobile focused display

For detailed information about CB Gallery and its capabilities, visit our product page or check out Kyle's detailed blog post, or explore a Professional or Developer Membership to get started with the full suite of community tools.

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Category: News

Published: 13 February 2026

Last Updated: 13 February 2026

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We’re excited to announce the release of CB ID Verify, a powerful new standalone Joomla extension that brings secure, modern ID Verification capabilities to your website. Designed to help you comply with ID and Age Verification requirements without compromising SEO, performance, or user experience, CB ID Verify integrates trusted third-party services like Stripe Identity and Persona to deliver reliable verification wherever you need it on your site.

ID and age verification are becoming increasingly relevant online, and existing solutions often fall short by relying on CSS or JavaScript that can be easily bypassed. CB ID Verify addresses this head-on by replacing Joomla’s output buffer directly, ensuring that protected content is never delivered until verification has completed successfully.

Flexible Targeting Controls

Configure where and when verification is required using powerful include/exclude rules:

• Target by URL, menu item, Joomla extension, or individual articles
• Further refinement via IP ranges, country filtering, and even field-based criteria such as birthdate.

Customization and Seamless SEO

• Tailor text, font sizes, buttons, layout, and backgrounds to match your site.
• SEO integrity maintained. Meta descriptions, keywords, Open Graph, and other metadata continue to be output correctly even on pages requiring verification.
• All layouts are Joomla override-ready for full design control.

Benefits for Your Joomla Website

• Powered by industry-leading identity providers Stripe Identity and Persona, with sandbox mode for testing.
• Rock-solid protection against bypass techniques like CSS/JS tricks.
• Safe handling of verification. Personal data is processed by trusted services, and no sensitive ID data is stored on your server.
• Control exactly who must verify and when

For detailed information about CB ID Verify and its capabilities, visit our product page or check out Kyle's detailed blog post. Active Developer Members can download or web-install this new plugin for free, or it can be bought through a Developer Membership or as a single add-on purchase. CB ID Verify is compatible with Joomla 5 and 6.