It is nice to have a list with top extensions to consider when you start a Magento store. Since Magento Connect now has 2450+ extensions I can imagine it’s hard for Magento newbies to get started. But instead of making my own list or referring you to other top lists (there are many out there) I thought it would be nice to do some meta research to create the ‘ultimate’ Magento extension list.
What I did was quite simple: I collected all Top X Magento lists I could find (7 to be exact). Every time an extensions is listed I gave it one point. In the end I counted the points for every extension and the extensions with the most points ended up in my ‘Ultimate Magento Extensions List’.
Here’s an overview of ‘Top X’ lists containing Magento Extensions.
The Ultimate Magento Extensions List
2) 5 points:
After the Top 3 there are a bunch of extensions getting 3 points:
- Magento Teaser Box
- IDEALIA Group Lightbox
- Remerce CMS Meta Robots
- MagentoLiveChat
- IW PayPal Standard Currencies
- J2T Points & Rewards
- MostViewed module
- Post Affiliate Pro Connector
- Lazzymonks Twitter
- Checkout Newsletter
- Events Calendar
- Magento jqZoom
- Fooman Invoice=Order Number
All other extensions got 2 or less points.
Congratulations to Aheadworks for making it to the top of the list with their Blog Extension (they also just made it compatible with Enterprise 1.8, nice work!).
Source Top X Lists:
(If you know about any other lists that are published after July 1st 2009, let me know and I’ll include them!)
Free Magento Extensions
Web Design & Development (December 7th, 2009)
- Admin Custom Shipping Rate
- Help Desk
- Textfield for Layered Navigation
- Blog Extension by aheadWorks
- Fontis WYSIWYG Editor
- Simple Order Export
- Order Status
- Change Attribute Set
- Delete Orders
- J2T Points & Rewards
- Enhanced Admin Products Grid
- Category admin product tab : edit product link
- Customer Activation
- MostViewed module
- Raptor Commerce Exploded Menu
- Bestsellers module
- Navigation Bar administrator
- Direct Resize
- Enhanced Search
- Login only catalog
- IDEALIAGroup LightBox
- aheadWorks Features Products
- Raffle
- MagentoLiveChat
- Latest Reviews
- Lazzymonks Google Ads
- Fooman Speedster
- Magento jqZoom
Network One (March 2010)
- Magento Teaser Box
- IDEALIA Group Lightbox
- SQLi Reverse Cross-Selling
- Vertical Category Navigation
- aheadWorks Blog
MyHosting.com (October 26th, 2009)
- Canonical URLs for Magento
- Yoast MetaRobots
- Remerce CMS Meta Robots
- MailChimp ECommerce360 Reporting
- Auto CrossSell Products
- Lazzymonks Twitter
- Product Gallery Importer
- Lazzymonks Google Ads
- Auctionmaid Matrxrate
- Category admin product tab : edit product link
- Change Attribute Set
- Fontis WYSISYG
- Mass Product Relater
- Fooman Google Analytics Plus
- Advanced Sitemap
- Post Affiliate Pro Connector
- IW PayPal Standard Currencies
- J2T Points & Rewards
- Fontis SecurePay
- Checkout Newsletter
- Events Calendar
- Exploded Menu
- Magento EasyLightbox
- Fooman Invoice=Order Number
- Teaserbox
- Magento EasyTabs
- MostViewed module
EvoHosting – 10 of the Best Free Extensions for Magento (July 21st, 2009)
- Exploded Menu
- CLS Upgrade-proof Email Templates
- Fooman Invoice=Order Number
- Aheadworks Blog
- Magento EasyLightbox
- Post Affiliate Pro Connector
- Checkout Newsletter
- Magento jqZoom
- IW PayPal Standard Currencies
- Royal Mail Domestic and International Shipping
Visionwidget – 30 Essential Free Magento Extensions (September 12th, 2009)
- Remerce CMS Meta Robots
- Fooman Google Analytics Plus
- Canonical URL’s for Magento
- Advanced Sitemap
- Blog
- Post Affiliate Pro Connector
- IW PayPal Standard Currencies
- J2T Points & Rewards
- Google Maps Store Locator
- BouncingOrange TinyMCE (WYSIWYG)
- Fontis WYSIWYG Editor
- Magento Live Chat
- Fontis SecurePay
- Royal Mail Domestic and International Shipping
- Checkout Newsletter
- Lazzymonks Twitter
- Events Calendar
- Customer Groups Configurable Catalog
- Exploded Menu
- Magento EasyLightbox
- Fooman Invoice=Order Number
- Magento jqZoom
- CLS Upgrade-proof Email Templates
- Teaserbox
- IDEALIAGroup LightBox for Magento
- Magento EasyTabs
- MagentoConnect Manager
- osCommerce Migration Tool
- MostViewed module
- Vertical Navigation with CSS Classes
Richard Castera – The Best Magento Extensions (August 14th, 2009)/ CodeMasterz – The Best Magento Extensions (Januari 30th, 2010)
- Magento Live Chat
- Fontis WYSIWYG Editor
- Lazzymonks Twitter
- Events Calendar
- Blog
- Raffle
- Customer Groups Configurable Catalog
- Exploded Menu
- Velite Magento Superstage
- Magento EasyLightbox
10 Great Magento Extensions For Your E-Commerce Store (August 27th, 2009)
This list also contained several commercial extensions which I removed.
- MouseOver Image Zoom (free)
- Blog (free)
- Ticketing System (free)
- Exploded Menu (free)
Notes:
- Most of the ‘Top X’ extension lists I found listed the extensions in no particular order so it wasn’t quite useful to assign points based on the positions in the several list.
- I based my research on previously published Top X lists on other blogs which means that the list is biased towards older extensions. Older extensions have been available for a longer period so more people will have had the chance to come in contact with them and put them in a Top X list. I couldn’t think of an easy way to compensate for this so I left it this way. I did however only used lists that had a maximum age of 1 year (published between July 1st 2009 and now).
- Since most lists only contain free extensions (I only found one list including commercial ones) I only included free extensions.
- I only looked at General list of extensions, lists on a particular subset of extensions (such as ‘themes’) are ignored.
- Some website will have more ‘authority’ then others. I’m not the one to judge so no compensation for this.
- I have listed my source Top X lists at the bottom of my post.
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