6 Best Free Joomla CCK Extension

Joomla CCK is a powerful website builder that helps build a variety of content types. With CCK, you can create many custom forms to build websites with unique features such as: Shop website builder, booking, events...etc

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Usually, the process of a CCK is:

1. Create form (types) based on the provided fields
2. Create categories for that form.
3. Create items by entering content into saved form.

Here is a list of the best free Joomla CCKs:

FLEXIcontent

FLEXIcontent is an advanced CMS developed to greatly enhance the native content managenent of Joomla!

Highlight:

• Powerful content types, that are meant to do a lot more, than merely group some custom fields
• Many highly parametrized powerful fields
• Drag-drop templating
• Multi-Category assignments (secondary & featured)
• High performance FACETED filtering !!!
• Author management with limitations for subscriptions sites
• Powerful ACL

SobiPro

SobiPro is an advanced powerful multi-content directory component for Joomla with a fully responsive SobiPro template with multiple colour themes and different styles.

Key Features:

• Unlimited nested category tree structure
• Category fields
• Basic Paypal payment system integrated
• Advanced back-end ACL for each section
• Possibility to integrate own PHP scripts in the templates
• Category filter in search

Content Builder

The main task for Content Builder is to structure Joomla! content (articles) while preserving content layouts - but you can do a lot more with it.

Key Features:

• Forms
• Content Management
• Catalogs
• Paid Content
• File Directories (Upload/Download)
• File Selling
• Image Galleries
• List/Details views (Record Display)
• CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations on your data.
• CSV Import

SEBLOD

SEBLOD is a WEB APPLICATION BUILDER for Joomla! This concept extends the functionality of the most used CMS in the world, without hack. A simple and 100% open source environment to meet the most specific needs

Main features:

• Advanced forms & content types: Drag&Drop Interfaces, AJAX, over 40 field types...
• Multi criteria search & list views: Custom criteria, list of results templates...
• Out of the box applications: Create / import /export your own apps (including content types + search features + list templates...)
• Multi-site system: One Joomla installation for many sites, separated front and admin for each site, so easy to use... The first multisite solution integrated to Joomla.
• Custom storage: Data Table Field, JSON, XML...
• Flexible Plugin system: Field, validation, typo, storage, link, live...

Cobalt

Cobalt is a successor of Mighty Resources but all new, completely redone.

Main features:

• Flexible CCK - Wide variety of fields text, textarea, html, image, select, multi-select, ... All fields are highly editable and will always give you more than you expect.
• Notification System - iPhone or Facebook style notifications system allows users subscribing to articles or section/categories and being notified on any occurring event.
• Multi-type - Allows you to submit, handle, search, display, order and filter different content types of data within the same section/category.
• Search & Filtering System – Smart and configurable FULL TEXT search system. Advanced search using filters by field values.
• Speed - High performance is one of our main concerns.
• Multi-Vendor - Users submit from frontend and can even create their own categories and have their own home pages.
• Comment System – Built-in comment system, along with the ability to use any other system like Komento.
• Rating System – 3 different calculating modes. Single or multiple property ratings.
• Moderator Manager – Set any users as moderator to any section, and fine-tune his permissions.

Fabrik

Fabrik gives people the power to create custom applications without requiring knowledge of mySQL and PHP, all from within a familiar Joomla administration interface.

For the basic use of Fabrik no coding is necessary, so for example you can create a form which records data into a list, and then create filters for that list to search for particular records without any programming (PHP, HTML, CSS) knowledge at all.