Top Magento Extensions

Hundreds of web agencies, development teams and web design freelancers have dedicated their time on creating Magento Extensions.

Even when there are plenty Magento Extensions available it takes a lot of time to find them. Perhaps that’s because most Magento sites are new and don’t rank well in search engines. To save your time we’ve created a list of the Top Magento Extentions.

Of course we’ll start with the Magento Connect as it offers the largest selection of Magento Extentions. However, it’s not really easy to find the extension you need even if it’s listed there. I suppose it happens due to a poor search feature.

If you need more Magento Extentions you should search the sites listed below.

  • AheadWorks.com provides a hure range of Magento extentions and Magento add-ons including Advanced Reports, Help Desk Ultimate, AJAX Cart Pro,  Follow Up email, etc
  • WebShopExtensions.com Magento – SugarCRM Extension, Magento Extension – Ajax Add to Cart, Magento Extension – Shop Access Lock
  • Velite.de Magento Superstage, Magento Productslider, Magento Teaserbox.
  • Luxe-Soft.com a huge collection of Magento extensions
  • Activecodeline.com Magento Bestseller module
  • Technology.pillwax.com DownloadPlus for Magento, EmailNotify for Magento, EuVat for Magento.
  • Temgra.com Color Custom Options, Color Thumbnails, Slider, Carousel, Color Attributes, Color Views Plus, Color Swatches Plus, Product Image Zoom, etc.
  • Collinssolutions.com Magento eBay Checkout, Magento Make An Offer
  • IcebergCommerce.com Optimal Payments Firepay Magento Payment Gateway Extension, Magento Auto Add to Cart Extension – Easy Bundles
    Pa-scripts.com Magento ClickBank Gateway, Magento Simple Checkout, Magento Live Cash Back Integration, Magento Order Summary, Magento Digital Checkout
  • Shop.Deeson.co.uk PayPoint.net Magento payment modules
  • MagentoModules.paytype.com Slider/Carousel showing New Products, Live Search for Magento (autocompletion), Sale&New Stickers for product images, Bestselling/Mostviewed Products Block, Countdown for products on sale
  • MageStore.com Advanced zoom images, Custom Invoice Number, Custom Invoice Number, Shop by Manufacturer
  • WebShop-Conversion.com Magento Weather Extension
  • Store.FooMan.co.nz Magento Extension Order Manager, Magento Extension PDF Customiser, Magento Extension Speedster, Magento Extension Surcharge, Magento Extension GoogleAnalyticsPlus, Magento Extension Invoice=Order Number

Hopefully you’ll find this list useful. Also, we need your help to complete it.
What are the Magento Extensions that you can’t do without?

Magento Modules

Magento is a fast developing eCommerce application. Magento offers rich customization possibilities by extensions and modules. The case is that Magento is built on a fully modular model. So your Magento store has unlimited scalability and flexibility. So module is an important element for Magento software.

Let’s find out what Magento Module is. Magento module is an extension which extends the features and functionality of Magento. While speaking about module examples we should mention additional payment gateway integrations, a featured items promotional tool, and etc. Thanks to the fact that Magento goes with fully object-oriented programming, all modules are immediately accessible via templates tags from any template files.

Magento is of a great interest for webmasters. So new Magento Modules are regularly being developed. In order to track all Magento Modules a special article called Modules Wanted has appeared. This article describes existing Magento Modules and gives links where you can find them. In a case you are well in Magento application and you’ve developed a Magento Module by yourself you can add it to the above mentioned article.

Developing Magento Modules will allow you to inject functionality anywhere. There are many things custom Modules can do, from editing your Database, to handling module upgrades to overriding classes (Blocks, Controllers, Models) and etc.

Magento open source shopping cart has recently appeared. Nevertheless it has a strong and helpful community without mentioning professional Magento Team. So you’ll get help any time you ask for it at Magento forums.