Popular Magento Plugins and Extensions

Here are a few popular Magento plugins that will help to extend your Magento website.

First, some points to note regarding plugins

• Premium (paid for plugins) don’t always come with free future updates, which can create issues down the line.
• Some plugins integrate services that require subscriptions, sign up.
• Too many plugins can slow down the site and make it harder to update the Magento core in future.
• Plugins don’t always play well together.
• Plugin features are often added to the Magento core down the line, so can become obsolete.

Popular Magento Plugins

MARKETING

Bronto Extension for Magento

The Bronto extension helps Magento customers to drive more sales faster by creating highly targeted lifecycle marketing campaigns that convert one-time buyers into repeat customers and motivate them to buy more.

http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/bronto-extension-for-magento.html

 

AddShoppers: Onsite Commerce Marketing Platform

Take your store to the next level with social apps that increase sharing and grow revenue. Includes social login and trending.

http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/addshoppers-onsite-commerce-marketing-platform.html

 

Yotpo Reviews

Yotpo helps Magento stores generate tons of reviews and use them to drive qualified traffic and more sales. Automated Mail After Purchase. The basic Lite version is free.

http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/yotpo-reviews.html

 

TRACKING & SEO

Google Analytics+ by Fooman

Provides additional features and advanced analytics for the default Google Analytics module. Generate more sales through improved conversions! Create a comprehensive sales funnel by tracking every step of the checkout process – pinpoint precisely where potential customers are ‘dropping off’ during the checkout process

http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/google-analytics-by-fooman.html

 

Optimizely

With Optimizely, you can track engagement, clicks, conversions, sign ups, or anything else that matters to you and your business. Optimizely’s custom goal tracking provides an endless range of measurable actions that you can define. Just tell Optimizely what to measure, and it will do the rest.

http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/optimizely-1.html

 

Search Engine Results Position Editor (SERP)

Improve your CTR (Click Through Rate) with a preview of how each product page will appear in Google, helping you to improve your conversion rates.

http://www.mgt-commerce.com/magento-serp-editor-extension.html

 

XML Sitemap

Display links in a hierarchical structure for Search Engines like Google, Bing to easily crawl and index.

http://www.magestore.com/magento-xml-sitemap-extension.html

 

A list of SEO extensions. Some of these target specific Magento version deficiencies, so need researching.

http://www.cloudways.com/blog/best-magento-seo-extensions/

 

SHIPPING / CHECKOUT

WebShopApps MatrixRate

Offer multiple shipping options to customers based on their locations. With MatrixRate you can define different shipping rates according to destination, shipping method and the weight, price or quantity of an item.

http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/webshopapps-matrixrate-1-multiple-table-rates-extension.html

http://webshopapps.com/free/matrixrate-shipping-extension.html

 

One Page Checkout

One Page Checkout Module dramatically reduces the steps required in the checkout process.

N.B SagePay support requires the pro version ($189).

http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/one-page-checkout.html

https://www.iwdagency.com/extensions/one-step-page-checkout.html

 

PERFORMANCE

AOE Scheduler

Manage your scheduler task, enables an overview of all cron jobs.

http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/aoe-scheduler.html

 

Nitrogento – Full Page Cache : automatic block caching & performance optimization

Boost Magento page load time & reindexing through full page cache, cache warming & a set of performance optimization. Full Page Cache, bring the incredible power of full page cache to your site by delivering HTML instead of compiling PHP pages when this is possible. This dramatically reduces server load and boost page load time.

http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/full-page-cache-automatic-block-caching-performance-optimization.html

 

Magento Delete Orders Extension

Easily delete test and failed orders in your Magento backend through the Action dropdown box on the native Order Manager.

http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/delete-orders-6.html

or

http://www.mgt-commerce.com/magento-delete-orders.html

 

LAYERED NAVIGATION

Layered Navigation Pro

Replace standard Magento layered navigation with fast multi-select AJAX navigation filter. The extension will let your customers select all the product parameters at once without having to choose them one by one. Use Layered Navigation Pro for Magento to filter search results. Select the number of attributes to show in the navigation panel, use dropdowns and multiselect for your attributes in addition to checkboxes and links. $129

http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/layered-navigation-pro.html

 

Improved Layered Navigation

Seo layered navigation, Shop by brands, Ajax Layered Navigation, Layered navigation filters, Advanced categories menu, Layered Navigation pro, Price sliders and other numeric filters. $139 future updtaes extra.

https://amasty.com/improved-layered-navigation.html

 

Magento Staff Picks

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