With more than 4,000 Extensions in the Joomla! Extensions Directory, one of the most daunting aspects of selecting a Joomla! Extension is finding the right tool for the job. With thousands of Extensions to choose from, you are sometimes faced with multiple options that appear to achieve your goals. While there really is no subsitute for downloading things and trying them out yourself, in this article I provide a list of fifty Joomla! Extensions as a starting point for addressing common needs. This article is excerpted from the upcoming Joomla! Bible, from Wiley & Sons. That book is due for publication in early November and can be pre-ordered directly from the publisher at www.wiley.com. Watch this site across the coming months as we preview more from this new title. Note that this is not an endorsement of one particular Extension over another, but rather simply a list of resources to help you get started. The list includes both commercial and non-commercial Extensions. The Extensions are numbered for convenience only — not as an indicator or preference or popularity. The Extensions have been grouped as follows: eCommerce and Catalog Management Improving Content Management Improving Administration Enhancing Search Enhancing Menus and Navigation Building Complex Forms Adding Gallery Functionality Adding a Directory Adding a Forum Adding a File Exchange Managing Multi-Lingual Content Enhancing SEO Extending User Management Adding Web 2.0 Functionality Improving Ad Management :: A Word of Caution :: The rate of change in the open source world can be daunting. Developers change, projects fork, […]
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