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Joomla is one of the most popular Content Management Systems (CMS) around the world. It is used in over 40 million websites, and its community has over 355000 users and a huge selection of extensions. Inside the extensions website, you can find programs for almost every purpose: social networking, blogs, forums, online stores, photo albums, and much more.
So in this article, we are going to recommend you the best Free Joomla extensions that you need to try on you next Joomla Website.
Community Builder – Social Community
Community Builder suite (CB) extends the Joomla! User Management System.
In other words, it allows you to create your own social network community for FREE. CB has many CB plugins from CB Team and from third parties, including Profile Gallery, Profile Blog, Profile Guestbook, Profile Wall, Paid Subscriptions Membership management.
More Key features:
* Extra fields in profile
* Enhanced registration workflows
* User lists
* Image upload
* Newsletter
* Forum
* Galleries
Website: http://www.joomlapolis.com/
Download: http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/210/details
Expose - Flash Gallery
Expose is a classy and capable Joomla extension for displaying your images. It is not the simplest one to use, but its small learning curve is certainly worth the effort. Exposé is a Flash-based tool which allows you to create eye-catching slide shows of your pictures on the web. A list of the features supported by exposé includes the following:
* Direct linking to a photo or album
* A slide show can be automatically started
* Easier to adjust the size
* Improved background color adjustments
* Upload/add background image through Joomla backend
The small footprint of the Flash clips and an intelligent loading of resources allow even dialup users to have a seamless experience viewing your photos. exposé is FREE for personal use.
Website: http://www.gotgtek.net/15/
Download: http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/photos-a-images/photo-flash-gallery/254
Virtuemart – Online Shopping Cart
If you would like to integrate a complete shopping cart to your Joomla, you should seriously consider Virtuemart. It's a fully-featured eCommerce Engine. VirtueMart is perfect to sell your Goods online and drive your Business to new Heights.
Website: http://virtuemart.net/
Download: http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/129/details
JCE – WYSIWYG Editor
As many of you might have noticed, Joomla’s page editor is limited and awkward at times. JCE adds many formatting features that are missing from the original editor, such as background color, fonts and styles and better multimedia control. A great time saver for those who can edit the page code by hand and a must have for those who can’t.
Website: http://www.joomlacontenteditor.net/
Download: http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/88/details
LyftenBloggie v1.0 - Blog
LyftenBloggie is a full featured, user friendly and powerful blog system component for the Joomla! 1.5. LyftenBloggie features front-end and back-end entry editing, RSS feeds, Trackbacks, support for multiple blog authors, built in avatar system and much more.
LyftenBloggie offers a very rich functionality for the blog users to update and customize their blogs and for the administrators to monitor and control the whole system.
Website: http://www.lyften.com/products/lyftenbloggie.html
Download: http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/news-production/blog/9883
