Joomla is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) for publishing web content. It is built on a model–view–controller web application framework that can be used independently of the CMS. Joomla is written in PHP, uses object-oriented programming (OOP) techniques and includes features such as page caching, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes,blogs, search, and support for language internationalization.
In this post, we would like to present our audience 12 best Joomla extensions for web developers which will help them to do number of things to build innovative web applications.
We hope you will find this collection useful and worth for your upcoming projects and will help you get going in the initial phases of your designing project.
1. Akeeba Backup
Akeeba Backup Core is the most widely used open-source backup component for the Joomla. It creates a site backup that can be restored on any Joomla!-capable server, making it ideal not only for backups but also for site transfers or even deploying sites to your clients’ servers. Akeeba Backup creates a full backup of your site in a single archive. The archive contains all the files, a database snapshot and an installer similar in function to the standard Joomla installer.
2. JEvents
JEvents is a well known and Loved Events Calendar / Management solution for Joomla. JEvents provides a full events and calendar solution for your Joomla site. Showing your events in listings or as a visual monthly calendar view, create complex repeats patterns, import and export your events with a couple of clicks, offer a feed with your latest events.
3. Breezing Forms
Breezing Forms is the only Joomla form manager around that you can throw at almost anything and yet is able to manage even the most complex tasks. If you need a simple contact form or a fully fledged form app, check out Breezing Forms, as it will most likely fit your needs.
4. Ozio Gallery
Ozio Gallery is a responsive photo and VIDEO gallery designed for Joomla, written in javascript which shows images published ONLY on Google+/Google Photos and video from YouTube. All your images and video are cloud hosted and automatically scaled using hi-quality settings.
5. AcyMailing Starter
AcyMailing is a reliable Newsletter and email marketing extension for Joomla. AcyMailing enables you to efficiently manage an unlimited number of subscribers, organize them into mailing lists, send personalized newsletters and many more.
6. JFBConnect
Social network integration for Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, Yahoo, Instagram, VK, Github, Amazon, Meetup, Windows Live and more for Joomla! Post content to Facebook Pages and Facebook Groups, Twitter Streams and LinkedIn Company Profiles. Use Facebook Open Graph tag and Twitter Card tags to manage the looks of all content shared from your site. Show your Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn streams easily on your site. And much more!
7. eXtplorer
eXtplorer is a web-based File Management Component for all your needs. It has a desktop-application-like interface with drag&drop, grid and a directory tree and makes heavy use of the Sencha ExtJS Javascript Library. You can use it to access and modify the files and directories on your server via FTP or direct file access.
8. JCH Optimize
This plugin combines your external JavaScript and CSS files into one to minimize expensive http requests. These files can be minified and gzipped to reduce bandwidth and further optimize download time. Typical results after plugin is configured with optimum settings for your site is a 6-10 point jump on Page Speed.
9. Admin Tools
Admin Tools is a true Swiss Army knife for your site. Our freely available Admin Tools Core will detect, notify you about new Joomla! releases, fix your files’ and directories’ permissions, protect your administrator directory with a password, change your database prefix, migrate links pointing to your old domain on-the-fly and perform database maintenance, all with a single click.
10. JComments
The JComments is a powerful and easy to use AJAX based comment system for Joomla with flexible ACL, smiles, BBCodes and avatars support. Working on this release took extra eight months, all this effort was spent to make the component more stable and usable. Considerable time was allotted for code optimization and improved compatibility to third-party extensions.
11. ACL Manager
ACL Manager is the award winning Joomla extension that will save you a lot of time managing and understanding the Joomla ACL system. Set the permissions easily via the clickable permission grid that provides a great single page overview of all ACL settings across your website.
12. SEO Generator
SEO-Generator is a SEO extension for Joomla, which automatically generates keywords and description for each article by pulling text from the title and/or the content, to help with SEO. It also gives you the ability to set different title configurations, robots meta tags and google webmaster verification keys. Joomla provides a great system for includingmetadata keywords and description on articles.
