Easy Profile - Joomla Extension

So there's no reason to buy an Easy Profile subscription yet? I'm glad I decided to check what people have to say before making the purchase.

@carsten and @fmpmanager

I have worked 14 year with Joomla and 8 or so with Wordpress.
Still love Joomla as a basic cms way more than Wordpress.


Build around the 40 small site's in WP with beaverbuilder and building a site is fast. Anything more complex I went to Joomla.
For some bigger projects for some plugins (learndash) I hade to transfer to Wordpress.
Now a large site with a LMS, community and app is done in WP.
And I have to say that with Zapier, webhooks and automation plugins I do not want to build a site like that in Joomla anymore.
With a lot of pain I most of my new site's will be build in Wordpress because the non-code builder and enduser experience is way better if you use the right plugins than anything in Joomla I know.

The only things I really miss are the many settings in menu items, easy menu ACL and the MVC overrides.
And Events Booking that I have used intens over the years.

I also understand why developers leave and why the builders like me and end users leave Joomla.
Every couple years for my customers thousands of euro's for the conversion while all is working fine but needs to upgrade to new joomla only for security reasons (because they stop supporting) is unacceptable for me.
Sometimes 2 or even only one year after building a large site the new Joomla version came out, how in the hell you are going to tell that your customers that they need to prepare for building the new site...

Joomla has made some bad choices over the years.
If they have made joomla easier for end users from J2,5 they could have stand a change agains WP.
Even in Joomla 4 the media manager is for a noob impossible to use right.
I have had to build a custom plugin for thousands to fix that issue that should be in the core if you ask me.

I stopped building fulltime sites so now I will slowly leave Joomla and go for Wordpress because it is all easier, goes faster and customers are sooner happy.

So I rather go for Wordpress than eat glass ;-)

Acymailing is going to release a feature that the usergroups can be changed with automation.
That could mean that you could change usergroups depending on fields with acymailing.

Hello.
Since version Acymailing 5+ it does not support changing groups, and they promised this function for a very long time, but never implemented it. The latest version 9.1 does not have it. Do you have any additional information?

Hello.
Indeed, it’s not difficult to transfer fields to custom fields in Joomla.
Displaying fields depending on the values of other fields in J4/5 are implemented by the showon parameter.
A problem arose about how to implement the functionality of changing user groups depending on field values.

Has anyone solved this problem?
Thanks.

Not a straigt forward solution but...
Acymailing is going to release a feature that the usergroups can be changed with automation.
That could mean that you could change usergroups depending on fields with acymailing.

i have a similar problem. all fields are already joomla custom fields, but how do i get the values in there? can any one assist me?

Hello.
Indeed, it’s not difficult to transfer fields to custom fields in Joomla.
Displaying fields depending on the values of other fields in J4/5 are implemented by the showon parameter.
A problem arose about how to implement the functionality of changing user groups depending on field values.

Has anyone solved this problem?
Thanks.

Thank you for the suggestion. I actually managed to complete it myself - once I looked at the tables and worked it out, it wasn't too hard.

Does anyone have an alternative extension for allowing any user to view other users profiles? That was a handy feature I completely forgot about...

Have you managed to migrate existing Easy Profile user data into Custom Fields? I have a lot of user data (my users answer questions during registration that is linked to their profile). I need to move this over somehow...

thanks Pete

I'm not importing it myself, but a friend of mine does the job. And he successfully imported the data. Search for the import tool RO CSVI and check the forum there for: Easy Profile

when is Joomla 4 compatible version of Easy Profile going to be released?

I guess: Never!

I have been using EP for years and I was waiting for so many months for a J4 compatible version like so many of us here.
But: Sad to see the developer seems not to care about us as well as not about EP anymore. We don’t get any information on this for months! No news, no announcements etc. Even in this forum there is silence. This is not the way to treat paying customers.

I myself have given up and moved away from EP. There are other solutions out there that have the functionality of EP. Besides that, J4 custom fields can cover a lot already and since J4.2 they finally are searchable.

Have you managed to migrate existing Easy Profile user data into Custom Fields? I have a lot of user data (my users answer questions during registration that is linked to their profile). I need to move this over somehow...

thanks Pete

Please tell me where I can download the Joomla 4 version of Easy Profile and are Jomsocial Bridge, EasyBlog tab plugin and Kunena Tabs Plugin Joomla 4 compatible?

Is anyone from JSN here to shed light on ANYTHING. It sounds like there are enough people here to fund this project (within reason) should someone want to lead it.

@mpmanager
i think you are in many parts right with your analyse and as well with that factor of sentiment that tied me also to joomla since mambo days. The problem is if you build more then a wordpress blog like webiste and especially if it is for a client and not yourself. This causes so much trouble if i sell a function to my client and the plugin it highly relates to gets out of order because of any circumstance we often don´t know exactly - but you mentioned some reasons. After swimming with the mouth wide open in an ocean the next wave of PHP updates or Joomla version fills that mouth and the website drowns. But i had some clients that argued that they bought a product from me - you understand?
So i know the contraversional thinking about that cycle that happens all the time in that fast moving area of development..
I would be interested to hear what other CMS systems you would prefer with a better management of the mentioned problems? I came from mambo to all versions of joomla, took a short side part to wordpress (which in my experience better should be named worsepress), went a wile with drupal and came back to joomla for most of my projects. But i´m curious to learn what other, easy to handle systems are out there i came not across. Thanks for all your answers out there and perhaps if somebody has already transitioned to another plugin this information would also be apriciated

I've been a member here for a good while. Full disclosure: I've had to develop my own Joomla extensions, though not for profit, just for my own projects.

[begin rant]

What's happening here is what is happening in the greater Joomla extension community - namely, a LOT of third party developers (3PDs) have just completely folded or otherwise now focus on other platforms. I've seen some of the backstage shenanigans, and have to say I do not blame those developers one bit for leaving Joomla. The project is notorious for making big changes to the API and other parts of the code, with little to no regard for third-party developers, keeping them in a perpetual state of beta. Instead of being able to improve their products while doing incremental updates to the Joomla core (you know, like a sane project would allow you to do), they have to fix what the Joomla updates break.

Mind you, there is no code migrator tool, at least not one that I can find, that translates at least the older standard core code into the newer APIs. Joomla team's attitude is just, "oh well, tough". Just like some major 3PDs begged Joomla to NOT force Bootstrap down developers' throats - even I knew that was a disaster - they also asked for incremental changes and an actual timetable so that they would know when these changes were coming and what was specifically affected.

I've been with Joomla since its Mambo days, went through the pain of the split, Joomla 1.5, then 2.5... then Joomla!3, all the while dealing with poor migration strategies, broken extensions (many popular ones were lost along the way), and now with this latest iteration templates AND extensions are affected. And no, telling people "it's coming" is not the same as having a coherent strategy for actually helping those who use Joomla to get ready for whatever "it" is.

But then, who cares about those scrubby users and non-core developers? It's not like they matter. /s (sarcasm meter on high)

So while I do indeed understand the frustration of customers who purchase these extensions, the real ire should be turned on the Joomla development team who has zero respect for those who make the extension that actually make Joomla popular.

And they wonder why Joomla has effectively lost to WordPress. (Don't get me started - I would rather eat glass than have to deal with the code from THAT platform. Their pain is coming too, and it will be FAR worse than this. At least Joomla dealt with the PHP upgrades over time - WordPress STILL has procedural code in its core. Yeah... it's gonna get NASTY.)

[rant over]

I too will keep watching this project. If it doesn't work out, there are other CMS platforms that I can migrate to. Personally, Joomla still holds a special place, probably due to fond memories from those headier early days where developers and serious hobbyists really made magic happen, but I cannot allow sentiment to cloud judgment. Perhaps it's time for me to leave as well.

Just to clarify. Easy-Profile is NOT Joomla 4 compatible!

Also, there are NO known plans or release dates for J4 compatibility.

A review of the above post reveals the following alternatives:

- Community Builder - Joomlapolis
- Advanced Custom Fields - Tassos
- UKR Solutions

I switched to Community Builder for two of my cliënts. Also used UKR Solutions component "Import Users to Community Builder from Excel/CSV".

Also explored using RSFormsPro (using the account creation plugin). It works, but not a real integration between Joomla account (processes) and the RS Forms records.

Just to clarify. Easy-Profile is only Joomla 3 compatible NOT Joomla 4

Yes absolutely. My mistake. Agreed.

That version is already out quite sometime.

That was an issue with J 3.10 if I remember correctly.

Yes absolutely. My mistake. Agreed.

Hi @Agape.
I guess you mean version "2.10.1" and not "3.10.1".

(Unfortunately, nothing is mentioned yet on the changelog page)

Version 3.10.1 is out today.

HI Joecan-

Easy Profile is much more than just custom fields. That is the problem. They enable complex conditions, allow for adding users to groups (or removing them), and let's not forget their incredibly easy to customize directory and the ability to filter or search for users using any field both on the front end and on the back end. Advanced Custom Fields is not really a replacement.

I just wish the developers would give us some kind of update, even if it is a definitive "Not gonna happen" so that we know that we have to come up with a different solution. I am very worried for my clients' websites, as I have some pretty complex integrations going with Easy Profile.

See Tassos - Advanced Custom Fields

Oh damn, protected reaction.

Joomlashine is NOT Easy Profile :-)
Search for my earlier question to JSN in this forum, I was worried when I saw that.

Relax! There are many applications not Joomla 4 Ready... I much rather JSN take their time and do it right then to throw something together that half way works.

It's not going to happen. JSN died 14 september 2021. Check the JSN website..

when is Joomla 4 compatible version of Easy Profile going to be released?

Relax! There are many applications not Joomla 4 Ready... I much rather JSN take their time and do it right then to throw something together that half way works.

JSN rip

And here is content of post #11

It was my answer about smart search indexing custom fields inJoomla 4.2:

You are right, it does not work yet in 4.2. It was cancelled by the developers in last minute and is now scheduled for 4.3.
github . com /joomla/joomla-cms/pull/38650

Pat01 your messages protected and I'm unable to view it.

To avoid the content protected issue

[Don’t post full URLs here. Post it as /path/to/final/page and write domain seperate as: domain . com]
[Don’t use emoticons]

Pat01 your messages protected and I'm unable to view it.

«Content protected» is an old issue in this forum and still not fixed.

Posting URLs will cause this. Even using emoticons will do so, because they are loaded from an external source = they use an URL.

Here is a post about it:
support/joomla-4-joomla-3-10-compatibility/?start=50#reply-29393

Of course, you need to add the domain name easy-profile . com in front of it (if I do so here it will be content protected…).

Here are the URLs I have posted in post #9 (hopefully they will not make my post content protected):
/category/clients-a-communities/
/category/clients-a-communities/communities/
/category/e-commerce/membership-a-subscriptions/

You need to add the domain name in front of it: extensions.joomla . org

Pat01 your messages protected and I'm unable to view it.
Is there still no update on Easy Profile being updated for Joomla 4?

Thanks Pat01 i did not get this news!

@pat01
Does searching in custom fileds really work on one of your 4.2 sites? I have this problem on any of my client sites and on 4.2 it still does not work. Hopefully i missed something and it might do the job with a snap of a checkbox :-)

And @all
Unfortunately it seems that EP and ES does not make the move to 4.X as it is so silent around it. I loved it for years and now also have to move on as i need a social plugin that is lightwaited for a upcomming project.

Best regards
Carsten

What are the other solutions you speak of pat01? thanks.

when is Joomla 4 compatible version of Easy Profile going to be released?

I guess: Never!

I have been using EP for years and I was waiting for so many months for a J4 compatible version like so many of us here.
But: Sad to see the developer seems not to care about us as well as not about EP anymore. We don’t get any information on this for months! No news, no announcements etc. Even in this forum there is silence. This is not the way to treat paying customers.

I myself have given up and moved away from EP. There are other solutions out there that have the functionality of EP. Besides that, J4 custom fields can cover a lot already and since J4.2 they finally are searchable.

Moved over myself to membership Pro for J4. I still have two clients on Easy Profile which I can delay moving to J4.

It does everything I need, but I do miss the fantastic Skeleton plugin which was very powerful

Do not understand why my last post was content protected, membership pro is now installed and doing the profile part that easy profile used to do on my site, goodbye easy profile hello joomla 4

Russell.

Why can we not see answers to this question? The radio silence from the team who produced this world class component is infuriating.

I have sadly already had to move on and find other solutions, but keep popping back 1/month to see out of curiosity if things move again