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

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

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

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

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.

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Layered navigation is one of most popular magento features created in order to make shopping quick and easy. Now you can improve your store layered navigation with additional great features! Ajax Layered Navigation will help you to use layered navigation block on home page and allow to use multiply attributes choice for more prices navigation. Also additional attributes display type such as images and drop down will help you to improve your store look.

Check Magento Ajax Layered Navigation demo and find out more details at extension products pageAjax Layered Navigation demo

We are proud to announce new premium magento theme. Rock Star is a new revolutionary template with improved SEO compatibility. It's based on 2 column home page layout with image slider and additional products blocks on main page. This template can be used for any store that need clean and grunge look with improved SEO compatibility and user interface. JavaScript slider on front page is easy to use and also SEO friendly.

Check Rock Star Premium Magento theme demo at our demo store or buy it right now at Templates Master Store.

Rock Star Premium Magento Theme features

• Tremendously Improved SEO compatibility.
• Improved HTML structure for better SEO performance (right usage of heading tags and other SEO important tags).
• Added nofollow attribute for non SEO links (layered navigation, categories listing, shopping cart links and product compare links).
• Built with CSS sprites
• 2-1-3 columns layout for better SEO performance.
• Image slider on main page.
• Newsletter subscribe block on main page.
• Custom powerfull widget with new, bestsellers, special offer and on sale products on main page.
• Improved product listing toolbar on categories listing page.
• Design based on 960 grid system.

Magento product labels are useful tools online merchants can use for their virtual stores. By using these easy-to-use solutions, they can put certain products on the spotlight, grabbing the attention of online shoppers. This means that if you have a new product or if you have certain products up for clearance, these are easily identified by the prospective customers. And it doesn't really matter if you have limited skills in creating labels or coding because the software does all the hard work.

How often have you walked into a supermarket and found yourself marveling at how easy you can find the exact product you are looking for? Too often, people rarely notice the ease by which they can shop for products because of the time and effort invested by merchandisers and store staff to neatly arrange and label various products available in their store so that customers can go about their business conveniently. Merchandising is part art and part science, and it can help businesses enhance customer experience at their store, enabling them to have repeat customers. Additionally, store owners can use merchandising to push certain products that would otherwise be languishing in some corner of the store.

When shopping online, customer experience is of value to merchants and retailers. With the limited time and attention website visitors allot to an online store, it is important that they immediately find what they are looking for. Some would say that product quality and price point are an item's unique selling points, but if the customer cannot find what he or she is looking for, then it does not matter how good a product may be is or how incredibly cheap it is.

Specifically, what can Magento product labels do? For one, you can add call-to-action elements to specific products. You can categorize your store's inventory as new products, on sale, and out of stock or low inventory. If your online store has more than 10,000 items in its catalog, labeling them would not be a problem as the software can easily handle such a volume. Additionally, the software bases its performance on internal indices and will not affect the performance of your online store. Flexible condition rules allow users to create and assign labels based on product SKU, price or any attribute you wish to use.

Enhancing customer experience when customers visit your website is just as important as SEO or social media campaigning. Too often, this aspect is overlooked, leading to the loss of customers. Using product labels is one good way to ensure that customers find what they are looking for and businesses increase sales.

Dear customers,

We are would like to greet you a Happy New 2011!

New Year has always been the best time for us to look back to the past. But most importantly, to look forward to the coming year.

2010 year was a year of great success for our small company. We were able to build successful relationships with hundreds of store owners and developers all around the globe. Our products were downloaded more than 150,000 times and have been used on thousands of stores all around the world.

For this year, we definitely plan in keeping the same great progress. With this, we plan to do everything possible to make our templates and extensions better. We will be releasing a bunch of new great extensions and themes soon. Of course, we are going to create more free products that you can use. Due to the recent mobile growth, we will definitely focus on providing new products for those using mobile platforms.

Usually, we get a number of questions about using our products at other e-commerce platforms. We are not sure about using any other particular platform, but we are definitely going to be 101% devoted to e-commerce services and products. We decided to ask your advice in this, because we believe that “The customer knows best." So our question is:

What e-commerce platforms you are planning to use?

Hosted e-commerce with Shopify, the easy way to start your own online store.

Robust, professional grade e-Commerce Prestashop shopping cart that you can download, install, and use for free.

CubeCart is a fully featured e-commerce shopping cart solution used by over a million store owners around the world.

Axis Is professional open-source e-commerce platform created for better user experience.

OpenCart is a turn-key ready "out of the box" shopping cart solution. You simply install, select your template, add products and your ready to start accepting orders.

We will really appreciate your votes and comments in our blog.

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