33 best Magento modules for your store

There are more then 4500 Magento extensions at Magento Connect right now. And number of magento modules is growing every day. Sometimes it's getting really hard to find right free extension for your store. That is why we have created top 33 best Magento modules list that should help you find best one for you. All extensions are listed according to number of downloads at Magento Connect on August 04, 2011.

1. Fontis WYSIWYG Editor

Fontis WYSIWYG Editor magento free extensions
Extension page: Magento Connect
Number of downloads: 59282
Compatability:1.1, 1.3, 1.2
Most popular community extension allow to add a chosen JavaScript WYSISWYG editor to selected admin pages. It will be usefull for store owners who still use older magento version or want to change default magento editor built-in into recent magento versions.

2. Enhanced Admin Product Grid

Enhanced Admin Product Grid magento extensions free
Extension page: Magento Connect
Number of downloads: 53726
Compatability:1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.4.1.1, 1.4.2, 1.5
Great addition for every magento store owner. It adds some useful, customizable features to the admin product management grid including new columns and tools.

3. Blog

Fontis Recaptcha magento extensions free
Extension page: Magento Connect
Number of downloads: 53481
Compatability:1.3, 1.4.2, 1.5
In case you want to run blog at your store then you can use either separate Wordress installation or use complete power of magento with blog extension by Aheadworks. It's full featured blog extension for Magento Community Edition.

4. Magento EasyLightbox

Blog free magento  extensions
Extension page: Magento Connect
Number of downloads: 47143
Compatability:1.4
Magento lightbox extension for your magento store. It will replace default magento products media block with lightbox powered javascript.

5. Fooman Speedster

Fooman Speedste free magento extensions
Extension page: Magento Connect
Number of downloads: 39581
Compatability:1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.4.1.1, 1.4.2, 1.5
Speed up your store by combining, compressing and caching JS and CSS.

6. Market Ready Germany

magento free extensions
Extension page: Magento Connect
Number of downloads: 38060
Compatability:1.5
This extension package provides all necessary modules (18) to preconfigure Magento for the German b2c market

7. Vertical Navigation with CSS Classes

magento free extensions
Extension page: Magento Connect
Number of downloads: 35335
Compatability:"1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.4.1.1, 1.4.2, 1.5"
Vertical Category Navigation with subcategories and fine css classes - NEW: You can now setup whether VertNav should show EVERYTHING (nice for jQuery) or ..just a few levels in the category tree.

8. CashOnDelivery

magento free extensions
Extension page: Magento Connect
Number of downloads: 25443
Compatability:1.4, 1.4.1.1, 1.4.2, 1.5
Cash on Delivery allows to book additional fee on delivery depending on inland or international delivery.

9. IG LightBox

magento free extensions
Extension page: Magento Connect
Number of downloads: 24506
Compatability:"1.3, 1.4, 1.4.1.1, 1.4.2, 1.5"
Alternative lightbox moduly by DEALIAGroup.

10. WebShopApps MatrixRate

magento free extensions
Extension page: Magento Connect
Number of downloads: 23119
Compatability:"1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.4.1.1, 1.4.2, 1.5"
The Original & much copied Multiple Tablerates using a CSV file, with a wealth of features

11. Magento EasyTabs

magento free extensions
Extension page: Magento Connect
Number of downloads: 22318
Compatability:1.3
Products tabs module for your store.

12. Easy CMS/Block - Free Version

magento free extensions
Extension page: Magento Connect
Number of downloads: 21629
Compatability:1.2, 1.3, 1.4
Easy CMS/Block is a powerful magento extension that provide dynamic block solution.

13. Magento Live Chat

magento free extensions
Extension page: Magento Connect
Number of downloads: 21620
Compatability:1.1, 1.2, 1.3
A Live Chat in Magento allow your visitors to dialog with your operators

14. Trusted Shops Module

magento free extensions
Extension page: Magento Connect
Number of downloads: 20928
Compatability:1.5
Trusted Shops integration for Magento.

15. Magento Social Bookmarking Services

magento free extensions
Extension page: Magento Connect
Number of downloads: 19825
Compatability:1.3, 1.4, 1.4.1.1
Share your products, categories, CMS pages... to Social Bookmarking Services (Twitter, Digg, Facebook...)

16. Bestsellers module

magento free extensions
Extension page: Magento Connect
Number of downloads: 19761
Compatability:1.1
Magento Bestsellers module.

17. Maintenance Page - ArtsOn.IT

magento free extensions
Extension page: Magento Connect
Number of downloads: 18266
Compatability:"1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.4.1.1, 1.4.2, 1.5"
Allow administrators to switch off any store view during mantenance operation.

18. Canonical URL's for Magento

magento free extensions
Extension page: Magento Connect
Number of downloads: 16415
Compatability:1.4.0.2
This extension adds the new canonical links to the head of your Magento pages.

19. Featured Products

magento free extensions
Extension page: Magento Connect
Number of downloads: 16063
Compatability:1.4, 1.4.1.1, 1.4.2, 1.5
This extension gives your Magento ability for easy management of featured products. Frontend features include separate interface for listing of all featured products and a block usage for easy placement to the interfaces of your choice. Frontend features include:

20. Fooman Google Analytics Plus

magento free extensions
Extension page: Magento Connect
Number of downloads: 14304
Compatability:1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.4.1.1, 1.4.2, 1.5
Additional features for the default GoogleAnalytics module.

21. Simple Configurable Products

magento free extensions
Extension page: Magento Connect
Number of downloads: 12790
Compatability:1.4, 1.4.1.1, 1.4.2, 1.5
"This extension changes the way that the pricing of Configurable Products works in Magento.

With Simple Configurable Products, the price for configurable products is taken directly from the associated simple products rather than the configurable product itself."

22. Customer Activation

magento free extensions
Extension page: Magento Connect
Number of downloads: 12191
Compatability:1.4, 1.4.1.1, 1.4.2, 1.5
This small extension makes it impossible for a customer to log in to magento until the account has been activated in the adminhtml interface.

23. MostViewed module

magento free extensions
Extension page: Magento Connect
Number of downloads: 11316
Compatability:1.1
Display list of most viewed products

24. Fontis_Recaptcha

magento free extensions
Extension page: Magento Connect
Number of downloads: 11106
Compatability:1.4, 1.4.1.1, 1.4.2, 1.5
This extension easily protects the "Send to Friend", "Contact Us", "Product Review" and customer registration forms from unwanted spambots by adding in Google reCAPTCHA to these forms.

25. Teaserbox

magento free extensions
Extension page: Magento Connect
Number of downloads: 9818
Compatability:1.3, 1.4, 1.4.1.1, 1.4.2
Display products in a flash based Teaserbox.

26. Pickup at Event / Multiple Flatrates

magento free extensions
Extension page: Magento Connect
Number of downloads: 9776
Compatability:1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.4.1.1, 1.4.2, 1.5
Adds the ability to enter pickup locations or multiple flatrates and displays method details. Also gives the ability to set min/max purchase limits for each option.

27. Unirgy StoreLocator

magento free extensions
Extension page: Magento Connect
Number of downloads: 8337
Compatability:1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4
Google Maps Store Locator provides eays wayto ingrate storefinder widget based on Google maps.

28. Royal Mail Domestic and International Shipping

magento free extensions
Extension page: Magento Connect
Number of downloads: 7631
Compatability:1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.4.1.1, 1.4.2, 1.5
Integrate Royal Mail shipping methods with your store.

29. Post Affiliate Pro Connector

magento free extensions
Extension page: Magento Connect
Number of downloads: 4781
Compatability:"1.3, 1.4, 1.4.1.1, 1.4.2, 1.5"
Intergate Post Affiliate Pro with your Magento store.

30. Events Calendar

magento free extensions
Extension page: Magento Connect
Number of downloads: 3124
Compatability:1.2, 1.3
Display an event calendar on your website.

31. Moo CloudZoom

magento free extensions
Extension page: Magento Connect
Number of downloads: 3099
Compatability:1.4, 1.4.2, 1.5
This extension replaces the image gallery with the jquery powered cloudZoom widget.

32. Facebook Connect Social Shopping

magento free extensions
Extension page: Magento Connect
Number of downloads: 3020
Compatability:"1.4.1.1"
Facebook Connect Social Shopping (FCSS) provides your site visitors the ability to connect with their Facebook friends without leaving your ecommerce store.

33. Jirafe analytics integration

magento free extensions
Extension page: Magento Connect
Number of downloads: 878
Compatability:1.3, 1.4, 1.4.1.1, 1.4.2, 1.5
And the last extension in our list is deeply integrated real time analytics for Magento store owners from Jirafe created by Fooman. Actionable dashboard, daily email report.

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