25 Best Joomla Extensions in 2018

25+ Best Joomla Extensions in 2018

Joomla extensions can significantly improve your Joomla website. They can enhance your Joomla site front end and improve the experience of your site visitors.

They can enhance your Joomla administrator panel and help you administer your site more efficiently. It's hard to imagine a website without Joomla extensions.

In this blog post, you will find our list of 25 best Joomla extensions in 2018. These are extensions that we would recommend for almost any Joomla site and which we use ourselves.

Here is our list, in no particular order.

#1. 3CX Live Chat

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Extension Price. The live chat version is free for unlimited users. To use the audio/video call features of this extension you will need to integrate with 3CX which is free for one year and after that, you can purchase a subscription for as little as $1 per user per month.

Extension Description. Compared to other solutions on the market, 3CX Live Chat is one of the most feature-rich live chat extensions that you’ll come across. It stands out from the conventional live chat, enabling the user to elevate a chat to a voice or video call. It also offers the option to assign chats to a particular agent or have groups of agents answer chats. In addition, you can integrate Business Facebook messages and answer both live chat and FB messages from the same interface, making it ideal for increasing customer loyalty and improving engagement.

#2. JCE (Joomla Content Editor)

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Extension Price. The basic Core version is free. The enhanced Professional version costs 26 Euros.

Extension Description. JCE is the best WYSIWYG extension in Joomla. It's reliable, hassle free, and packed with easy-to-use editing features. It gives you the power to create the kind of content you want, without limitations, and without needing to know or learn HTML, XHTML, or CSS.

#3. Akeeba Backup

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Extension Price. The basic Core version is free. The enhanced Professional version costs 40 Euros for one year.

Extension Description. This is a one-click backup and recovery solution with multiple backup formats. It's the best extension in Joomla for backing up your site. Akeeba Backup has a great documentation, excellent support, and many reviews from happy customers.

#4. Advanced Module Manager

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Extension Price. The basic version is free. The enhanced Professional version costs 39 Euros for one year.

Extension Description. With Joomla, you can normally only assign modules to certain menu items. With Advanced Module Manager, you can assign modules to about anything you want, with full control over your Joomla modules.

#5. Shack Forms

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Extension Price. $39 for 6 months or $49 for 12 months.

Extension Description. Shack Forms is the easiest and most powerful way to add forms for your Joomla site. Shack Forms allows you to customize forms and then show them in your articles, inside pop-ups, in modules, or anywhere you want. The design of Shack Forms is completely flexible with many different themes, styles, and effects. There's no better choice for a forms extension in Joomla.

#6. OSMap

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Extension Price. Free for the basic version. $39 for 6 months or $49 for 12 months for the advanced Pro version.

Extension Description. OSMap is the easiest way to add a sitemap to your Joomla site. OSMap will automatically create a Google-friendly sitemap for all your Joomla content.

#7. OSDownloads

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Extension Price. Free for the basic version. $49 for 6 months or $59 for 12 months for the advanced Professional version.

Extension Description. OSDownloads is the easiest way to add downloads to Joomla. You can provide Joomla downloads in exchange for email addresses, social shares, or to private users.

#8. OSEmbed

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Extension Price. Free for the basic version. $39 for 6 months or $49 for 12 months for the advanced Professional version.

Extension Description. OSEmbed makes Joomla embeds super-easy. All you need is the URL and you can embed almost anything into a Joomla site! The Pro version of OSEmbed provides responsive Joomla embeds, a live preview in the editor, and allows you to easily edit or delete the embed URL.

#9. HikaShop

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Extension Price. 49.95 Euros for a one-year subscription for HikaShop Essential. 99.90 Euros for a one-year subscription for HikaShop Business. 385 Euros for a one-year subscription for HikaShop Multi-sites.

Extension Description. HikaShop is our favorite e-commerce solution for Joomla! Built for simplicity and flexibility, this Joomla extension is powerful enough to be a competitor to any shopping cart solution.

#10. Shack Search

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Extension Price. Free.

Extension Description. Shack Search is a free Joomla extension that improves your Joomla search box. Your visitors get search results as they type.

#11. JCH Optimize

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Extension Price. $29 for 6 months, $39 for 12 months and $99 for the lifetime.

Extension Description. JCH Optimize provides several front-end optimizations for faster download speeds for your Joomla website. It offers to minimize HTTP requests and reduce your web page sizes. We highly recommend it. But on occasion it can some unintended bugs, so be sure to test the site each time after changing a setting.

#12. Quix

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Extension Price. The basic version is free and the advanced pro version costs $49 for one year.

Extension Description. Quix- The proven, responsive drag & drop Joomla page builder by Themexpert comes with a built-in Form builder, SEO analyzer, Image optimization, AMP(Accelerated mobile pages), Joomla article, Advance interactive elements, 3rd party integration and many more. You can also create visually impressive and professional looking websites without writing a single line of code with Quix.

#13. Shack Open Graph

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Extension Price. $29 for 6 months or $39 for a 12-month subscription.

Extension Description. This Joomla extension adds Open Graph and X / Twitter Card tags to your site. These tags help Facebook and X / Twitter to pull the correct image and description from your site.

#14. Admin Tools Professional

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Extension Price. Admin Tools Core basic version is free. The advanced Admin Tools Professional costs 48 Euros for one year.

Extension Description. Admin Tools is your best all-in-one solution to update your Joomla site, perform maintenance tasks and enhance your site's security.

#15. Email Beautifier

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Extension Price. $22.99 for 6 months. $33.99 for 12 months. $136.99 for 12 months with support to unlimited websites.

Extension Description. This extension turns plain Joomla emails into a work of art. It will make your Joomla emails look nicer. Email Beautifier catches all emails going from your Joomla site, wraps an awesome template around them and sends them on their way. Email Beautifier also ensures all emails going out of your Joomla site have a uniform and consistent look and feel.

#16. OSMeta

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Extension Price. The basic version is free. The more advanced Professional version costs $29 for 6 months and $39 for 12 months.

Extension Description. With OSMeta, you will be able to easily control page titles, keywords, and URLs for all your articles via a single screen. It makes editing fast. There's also a character counter to make it easy to see when your metadata is just right or too long.

#17. PWT SEO

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Extension Price. 79 Euros for a one-year Personal subscription. 99 Euros for a one-year Business subscription. 179 Euros for a one-year Agency subscription.

Extension Description. PWT SEO will support your content editors to write articles according to Google SEO guidelines. Set an SEO keyword and PWT SEO will give real-time suggestions to improve your SEO score.

#18. Snippets

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Extension Price. The basic version is free. 19 Euros for a one-year subscription of the Professional version.

Extension Description. With this Joomla extension, you can make reusable snippets (pieces of text/content) and include them into your Joomla content via a tag.

#19. Shack Editorial Calendar Pro

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Extension Price. $39 for a six-month subscription or $49 for 12 months.

Extension Description. Shack Editorial Calendar is designed for people with busy Joomla sites. With this extension, you can manage large amounts of Joomla articles. You can create, edit and schedule all your content from a single calendar screen.

#20. Cache Cleaner

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Extension Price. The basic version is free. 19 Euros for a one-year subscription of the advanced Professional version.

Extension Description. With Cache Cleaner you can clean your cache fast and easily via a link in your Joomla Administrator. It also gives you the possibility to purge expired cache, do a global check-in, empty the temp folder, empty user-defined folders and database tables - all with just one click!

#21. Better Preview

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Extension Price. The basic version is free. 19 Euros for a one-year subscription of the advanced Professional version.

Extension Description. Better Preview provides you a preview button for the article you are working on. See what the article will look like before saving or publishing it! Better Preview also changes the way the 'View site' link in your administrator works. It will make that link go to the frontend equivalent of that page. It will also display links to any parent pages (like parent category pages when editing an article).

#22. Shack Toolbox

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Extension Price. $39 for a six-month subscription or $49 for 12 months.

Extension Description. Shack Toolbox is the best way to nicely display external content on your Joomla site. It has over 19 media and marketing integrations including Facebook, X / Twitter, Google Maps, Instagram, Joomla articles, K2, Zoo, Seblod and much more.

#23. ReReplacer

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Extension Price. The basic version is free. 39 Euros for a one-year subscription of the advanced Professional version.

Extension Description. With ReReplacer you can dynamically replace whatever you want in your entire site. It can work on the entire output of your site, so you can also do replacements in things like the meta tags.

#24. Membership Pro

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Extension Price. $39.99 for a 12 months subscription.

Extension Description. Membership Pro is a powerful, feature rich, easy-to-use Joomla membership/subscription extension. It allows you to create and sell subscription plans. Allow your site visitors to subscribe for these plans and give them access to restricted resources on your Joomla site.

#25. jQuery Easy

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Extension Price. Donationware.

Extension Description. The jQuery Easy extension will help you to remove possible jQuery conflicts if some of your JavaScrpt libraries conflict with each other. You can fine-tune it for better performance.


About the author

Nick is the Director of Support at Joomlashack and you can find him in almost every area of the site, from answering support requests and account questions to creating tutorials and software.