Monday, October 31, 2011

Five most useful Joomla 1.6 Extensions

Joomla, one of the world's most popular development platform for CMS is available to both developers and non-technical users. HTML coding has almost turned obsolete in comparison to this robust tool. The credit goes to all the web developers out there for developing some of the most useful more than 8000 of free Joomla Extensions to choose from.

Joomla Extensions 1.6 makes tasks easier and faster. You can create beautiful websites with the use of applications with Joomla. The gallery of Joomla extensions is huge, and the functionalities each extension offers is impeccable. The extensions are created by its users and creators of Joomla itself.

From the many extensions available in the market, the top five must-have Joomla 1.6 extensions are :-

Akeeba Backup :-

It is an open source backup component for creating backups which can later be used to restore at any Joomla capable server. It creates full backup of the site in one single archive. JCE, a popular Joomla extension, is customizable and expandable that fetches you the latest editor for handling the Joomla pages of your site. With it, image and file handling, plugin support, a sound administration interface to configure the editor, et cetera are incorporated as features in it.

Community Builder :-

A very popular tool which makes the website interactive by enhancing the user management system which in turn makes your site social and facilitates the visitors to interact. The extension enables integration of extra files to user lists, profile, extended registration workflows, image uploading, establish connection paths between users and integration with modules like galleries, forums and newsletters. Online store owners widely use one of the most advanced real time shopping cart solution i.e. VirtueMart. Open source extension could work smoothly in stores as well as in catalog mode. The sound administration tool enables handling of variety of categories, shopper groups, customers discounts, etc.

JoomFish :-

It is a more advanced extension as it enables maintaining your site in various languages with the help from a system. The incorporated front-end modules help to select a language, plug-ins and the router. You can use this extension without patching crucial files.

Googlemaps plugin :-

This plug-in is useful if you want to include one or more Google Maps right in within your content, components or modules of Joomla 1.5.x or 1.0.x. The icon of the plug-in displays a Google map with a pop up having details which pop ups when you place the cursor on a specific location on the map. This plugin is easily downloadable.

JoomlaXplorer :-

JoomlaXplorer is an addition to the core components to Joomla Extensions. With this joomla extension you can create new folders, files, upload content, rename, move, copy, search and erase files and more.

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