Magento is a popular e-commerce platform with constantly growing usages for online stores and e-commerce websites. It provides loads of features to enable smooth online transaction for both, the buyers and sellers. There are some wonderful free extensions for Magento that can easily be used for the best possible results. In this article, 10 must-have free Magento extensions are discussed, like:
Enhanced Admin Product Grid
Compatibility: 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.4.1.1, 1.4.2, 1.5, 1.6
Enhanced Admin Product Grid is a powerful Magento extension that helps to add a range of functional and customizable features to the admin. This extension allows addition of new columns and tools to the admin area as well. It also helps in full product search besides working as a foremost grid row highlighter.
Preview of Enhanced Admin product Grid extension (Courtesy: Magento Extension Directory)
Blog
Compatibility: 1.3, 1.4.2, 1.5, 1.6
Blog is a Magento extension that helps in management of blogging. It gives an opportunity to voluntarily switch on/off the blog for many featured stores. It offers loads of blogging features, like Multi-store RSS, and switchable menu categories etc.
Preview of Blog extension (Courtesy: Magento Extension Directory)
Fooman Speedster
Compatibility: 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.4.1.1, 1.4.2, 1.5, 1.6
Fooman Speedster is a popular Magento extension that allows users to perk up the store. This extensions blends and compresses and does caching of JS and CSS. With the help of this extension, the loading of JavaScript and CSS is effectively managed.
Preview of Fooman speedster extension (Courtesy: Magento Extension Directory)
Magento Easy Tabs
Compatibility: 1.3, 1.4, 1.4.1.1, 1.4.2, 1.5, 1.6
Magento EasyTabs is a very useful extension that enables adding informational tabs on the product page. The addition could be done with simple installation and configuration process of just few minutes. The installing can be done even without any prior knowledge of coding.
Preview of Magento EasyTabs extension (Courtesy: Magento Extension Directory)
Fish Pig’s WordPressIntegration
Compatibility: 1.3, 1.4, 1.4.1.1, 1.4.2, 1.5, 1.6
FishPig’s WordPress Integration is a very popular extension that helps users to easily integrate a WordPress blog with the Magento store. This extension has become the choice of hundreds for blog integration with a Magento store. The integration through this extension would be done without any file modification in either Magento or WordPress.
Preview of FishPig’s WordPress Integration extension (Courtesy: Magento Extension Directory)
Webforms
Compatibility: 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.4.1.1, 1.4.2, 1.5, 1.6
Webforms is another must-have extension that deals with web-forms. With this extension, users get an opportunity to manage and create web-forms of diverse nature to add value to their Magento site. More so, it enables easy customization and addition of Captcha to contact form.
Preview of Webforms extension (Courtesy: Magento Extension Directory)
Facebook LikeButton
Compatibility: 1.4, 1.4.1.1, 1.4.2, 1.5, 1.6
Facebook Like button with Open Graph support would be a great extension to tap into the immense potential of Facebook. With the Facebook Like Button, a business stands to gain immensely out a platform that has millions of users and prospective buyers.
Preview of Facebook Like Button extension (Courtesy: Magento Extension Directory)
FoomanEmail Attachments
Compatibility: 1.3, 1.4, 1.4.1.1, 1.4.2, 1.5, 1.6
Fooman Email Attachments is a wonderful extension for Magento that helps a lot. This extension enables easy attaching of a copy of the PDF to emails that are yet to be transacted. More so, it offers support for printing orders to enable ideal sales e-mails to end users.
Preview of Fooman Email Attachments extension (Courtesy: Magento Extension Directory)
Woopra for Magento
Compatibility: 1.4.1.1, 1.4.2, 1.5, 1.6
Woopra for Magento is another popular extension that helps in the tracking of users to the store. With this extension, Woopra support would be added to the Magento store that would help to track visitors very quickly. The extension would create the Woopra GUI with the information of the Magento customer username and their email for easy tracking.
Preview of Woopra for Magento extension (Courtesy: Magento Extension Directory)
SofTicket
Compatibility: 1.6
SofTicket is another popular extension for Magento that helps users to easily follow customers’ queries. This extension is basically Help Desk Extension for Magento.
Preview of SofTicket extension (Courtesy: Magento Extension Directory)
Conclusion
Magento has grown into a popular e-commerce platform with loads of features for better buying experience for users and easy management for store owners. There are a range of free Magento extensions available and we have listed the 10 must-have. Users are encouraged to add more to the list for more ease of the Magento users.
