Topic-icon Profile pictures for Joomla users

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11 years 6 months ago #27455 by bellboy
Currently Joomla, out of the box, does not have profile pictures as a feature. We have the ability to add this functionality with extensions like "Community Builder, JomSocial, K2, etc" but there is nothing lightweight that does only profile pictures.

JFBConnect and JLinked allow users to register and log on to Joomla based sites using their existing accounts at Facebook and Linkedin and will even import their profile pictures from those sites but if you do not use JomSocial it will not be of any use. I would like to make a request to Alex to consider developing an extension for Joomla that will allow for user profile pictures and work in conjuction with JFBConnect and JLinked also even on its own. As this functionality does not exist many, many Joomla site owners would likely have a great interest in this. It would also be a great way to get customers to buy your other two products.

Please consider this for future development. I think if you put a poll out to your clients you would get positive feedback on this. Couldn't hurt to find out.
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11 years 6 months ago #27459 by alzander
There's been quite a few extensions that have tried to tackle a 'simple' profile system for Joomla. We even, earlier this year, were on a long discussion with another prominent developer who wanted to make just such a system, but it never materialized.

The problem is that it's difficult to do a 'simple' system well because once it's implemented, it's usually too simple and more features are requested. JomSocial started out, at v1.0 as a great profile system with minor other features. Now it's huge and profiles are just a small part of overall functionality. We still recommend JomSocial, but agree there's room for more.

Unfortunately, we won't be building such a system while we focus on our core strengths. However, there are always rumors and hopes of avatar support being added to the built-in Joomla profile system. It takes a lot of work to support avatars though.

Hope that helps explain our position, and if you find an extension that fits your needs, let us know.. we'll gladly look into supporting it!

Thanks,
Alex
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