Here are some of the best Magento extensions that I’ve come across.
- Magento Live Chat
This free module will provide LiveChat support in Magento.
- Fontis WYSIWYG Editor
This extension gives you the option to enable a JavaScript WYSIWYG editor to specified admin pages. Currently available editors are: TinyMCE and FCKeditor.
- Lazzymonks Twitter
Displays Twitter updates in the menu and allows updates from within the admin panel.
- Events Calendar
With this extension, you can display an events calendar on your website. Events are stored in the database. You can also display the upcoming list of events quickly by calling a block in your template.
- Blog
Full featured blog extension for Magento.
- Raffle
This module gives you basic functionality to run your own raffles.
- Customer Groups Configurable Catalog
This extension enables you to hide categories and products from customers depending on the customer group.
- Exploded Menu
Replaces the standard single column drop down with a multi-column dropdown featuring 2nd and 3rd level menu items.
- Velite Magento Superstage
Functionality, intuitive interaction and product presentation with really high detailed images are the main features.
- Magento EasyLightbox
This small extension will help to install Lightbox widget. Installation and configuration will take approximately 5 minutes. No files are replaced and no codding experience needed to install!
- Magento Exploded Menu
Replaces the standard Magento menu with a multi-column drop down menu system.
we need more posts like this! magento’s search feature is horrible! i cant find anything in that clutter of extensions.
i should also mention the best magento extensions are the ones you have to pay for. and they are worth every penny because most come with support straight from the programmers of the extension themselves.
i dont mind forking over 70 bux for an extension and help out the little guys!
Thanks for the mention! Check the Fontis WYSIWYG extension page on our site for more info and updates, this is kept more up-to-date than the Connect listing.
Richard, thanks for putting this together, it was extremely helpful! I agree with Daniel that Magento needs to start looking at building their own search and stop relying on Googles search everything method.
Thanks for the list, its really good.
Check out Royal Mail Shipping Options UK I found that extension very useful.
Good collection of Magento extensions thank you for sharing with us. keep writing.
Yeah, we feel your search pain too. We’re actually working on a new search module for Magento that should be released here in the next few months. It will allow for matching based upon titles, is 100X more relevant to the phrase being used, and more. Stay tuned
I like the look of the exploded menu add on in the default theme, we use Modern so would have to see what it turns out like.
The wysiwyg editor is really handy for making the product features nice, it gets a bit text saturated with no nice way to break it up. The ability to quickly format the text is very good.
I might also try out the live chat function as well, although i’d want to know if its worth it within our niche, it looks nbad if we cant talk to the customer straight away, and that may be the case sometimes.
Thanks for the list!
Thank you for this list. We are using most of them.
I like the extensions at this site:
http://www.temgra.com
For configurable products when you want the images to change with different options, this is a great extension:
http://www.temgra.com/index.php/magento-extensions/color-custom-option-magento-extension.html
@Jamie, Thanks!
@Sweeper, Thanks!
@Bill, Thanks for sharing that!
I have found Free CMS – a static block management extension for magento. It is very useful and amazing.
You can install it via magento-connect here:
http://www.magentocommerce.com/extension/1710/free-cms-block-frontend-features
Or download it directly from Mage-World.com:
http://www.mage-world.com/free-cms-block-frontend-version
Hope this is useful for you.
Has anybody found a working search extension yet. I got scammed by a company offering a sphinx search module that appeared to pick up even with spelling mistakes. Everything they had seemed fine except they either went bust or made it just to rip people off. There were reports of a few sites working until their servers were switched off and all the licenses failed.
If anybody can come up with something i think they could probably retire on the profits just from single module.
Thanks Richard for this useful Magento Extensions List. Please Check some of the useful extensions such as for Advanced Search and Video Streaming; at http://ecommercesoftwaresolutionsonline.com/services-pricing/magento-extensions.html
Thanks for the list, I included it in my meta research for the best Magento extensions: http://blog.guidojansen.nl/2010/06/25/meta-research-the-ultimate-magento-extensions-list/
@Guido, Thanks!