Cobalt has already support for the usual suspects:
- CommunityBuilder (CB)
- JomSocial (JS)
- EasySocial (ES)
There is also a Gravatar option to have user-avatar thumbnails, if none of the bigger community scripts is installed. But this is an external service, that is just applicable to a certain group of advanced internet users.
The average user account might need a simple profile (joomla core plugin), but the core system lacks an profile image and upload! :(
Lite and promising alternative: Easy-Profile by JSN.
It is available for FREE and as a PRO version. The free one also offers Avatar-picture upload! The pro version adds SocialNetwork authentication and login and much more...
Unfortunately, Easy-Profile is not yet supported by Cobalt. I mean, there is no community-integration file in global config. First I thought there is an official workaround… because JSN provides a JomSocial-Bridge, which should make it work with Cobalt's existing JomSocial setting, but it simply does not help here. Cobalt throws an error message, if JomSocial component is not installed!
Suggestions:
A.) Maybe suppress the error-message behavior for JomSocial. So, JSN-JomSocial-Bridge can do his work.
B.) Direct Support for JSN Easy-Profile with a new, cobalt community integration file.
Related Links:
- JED page
- Docs (see Developers)
PS: It seems JSN is going to make it a real community extension in the future... Recently, I saw an activity-stream screenshot on twitter ;-)
Cobalt has already support for the usual suspects:
There is also a Gravatar option to have user-avatar thumbnails, if none of the bigger community scripts is installed. But this is an external service, that is just applicable to a certain group of advanced internet users.
The average user account might need a simple profile (joomla core plugin), but the core system lacks an profile image and upload! :(
Lite and promising alternative: Easy-Profile by JSN.
It is available for FREE and as a PRO version. The free one also offers Avatar-picture upload! The pro version adds SocialNetwork authentication and login and much more...
Unfortunately, Easy-Profile is not yet supported by Cobalt. I mean, there is no community-integration file in global config. First I thought there is an official workaround… because JSN provides a JomSocial-Bridge, which should make it work with Cobalt's existing JomSocial setting, but it simply does not help here. Cobalt throws an error message, if JomSocial component is not installed!
Suggestions:
A.) Maybe suppress the error-message behavior for JomSocial. So, JSN-JomSocial-Bridge can do his work.
B.) Direct Support for JSN Easy-Profile with a new, cobalt community integration file.
Related Links: - JED page - Docs (see Developers)
PS: It seems JSN is going to make it a real community extension in the future... Recently, I saw an activity-stream screenshot on twitter ;-)