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Meta Research: The Ultimate Magento Extensions List

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

1) 6 points:

2) 5 points:

3) 4 points:

After the Top 3 there are a bunch of extensions getting 3 points:

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)

Network One (March 2010)

MyHosting.com (October 26th, 2009)

EvoHosting – 10 of the Best Free Extensions for Magento (July 21st, 2009)

Visionwidget – 30 Essential Free Magento Extensions (September 12th, 2009)

Richard Castera – The Best Magento Extensions (August 14th, 2009)

10 Great Magento Extensions For Your E-Commerce Store (August 27th, 2009)
This list also contained several commercial extensions which I removed.

Notes:

  1. 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.
  2. 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).
  3. Since most lists only contain free extensions (I only found one list including commercial ones) I only included free extensions.
  4. I only looked at General list of extensions, lists on a particular subset of extensions (such as ‘themes’) are ignored.
  5. Some website will have more ‘authority’ then others. I’m not the one to judge so no compensation for this.
  6. I have listed my source Top X lists at the bottom of my post.
Meta Research: The Ultimate Magento Extensions List

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By Guido Jansen on June 25th, 2010   /   E-commerce   /   7 Comments

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  • http://www.activo.com/services/magento-development Ron

    I wish there was a better way to evaluate the quality of these extensions, such as idnetifying which ones will conflict with others once installed in conjunction? what versions of Magento (CE, Professional, Enterprise) do they support and can we upgrade Magento with no problem or do we need to be aware of something?

    I guess, these are the ways of open source…

    • http://www.gxjansen.com Guido Jansen

      That would certainly be a welcome addition to Magento Connect but hard to create an automated technical solution for I think. At the moment, Magento Connect does allow the extension developer to provide compatibility information for the Community and Enterprise versions of Magento.
      Every upgrade needs to be executed with care and first tested on a development server. When extensions replace, extend or otherwise rely on a core functionality that’s changed between Magento versions, you most likely also need an updated version of the extension for it to work 100% on the new Magento version.

  • Guest

    Hello,,
    very useful links here …

    I haven’t idea that , these much free extensions available in Magento …

    Thanks Dude …..
    kEep rOCkiNg ……….

  • http://www.gxjansen.com Guido Jansen

    Thanks for the correction Simon, I’ll change it in the list!

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