Finally, Joomla 2.5 has been released, so have you found suitable extensions for your Joomla site? Let's take a look at Joomla Extensions Directory (JED) which contains a number of extensions ready for Joomla 2.5. In this blog post, we will introduce you to some outstanding popular Joomla extensions based on the following criteria:

• High rating (4.5 stars and above)
• At least 50 votes from users
• Good reviews from users
• Supports Joomla 2.5.

JCE - Editor

• Compatibility: Joomla 1.5, 1.6, 1.7 and 2.5
• License: GPLv2 or later
• Reviews: 370+
• Votes: 780+
• Website - Download

JCE Toggled Editor

Not only for businesses but also for individuals, it's essential to show your social activities to visitors. You have written many helpful articles, and they're worth sharing. Integrating your Joomla site with social media channels will help you drive more traffic to your site and advertise your articles better. I've tested many Joomla 2.5 extensions and in this article, I am going to tell you about some of the best free social extensions that you need. Firstly, you should have a look at several types of extensions I will mention today, categorized by functionality:

1. Display your channels
2. Add comments
3. Bookmark and share
4. Display social profiles
5. Login using a social network's account

Display your channel

Stalker

When I build my social media channels, the first thing I do is show them on my website for people to notice. It's really difficult for me to go to each channel and grab the integration code. I need one extension that allows me to show all my channels easily. Stalker is a great Joomla social extension for that need. The main reason I chose this Joomla 2.5 extension because I can show up to 52 social media channels to my visitors: Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Google+, just by entering my user ID for each channel. I can also add more networks or customize my icons to fit my template. Moreover, Stalker can display icons anywhere on the site: in a module position, directly in an article or even in a Community Builder profile.

Stalker module on the site

After the release of JSN PowerAdmin a week ago, the JoomlaShine team is very happy to receive a lot of positive feedback from Joomla! users. All of them find JSN PowerAdmin helpful for their sites. It’s really a big motivation for the JoomlaShine team since we truly want to contribute more to the Joomla! community.

No more waiting, let’s scroll down to those nice words...

Twitter

We are truly glad to receive some really cool comments from JoomlaWorks, one of most popular extension providers for Joomla!

JoomlaWorks tweet on their Twitter

Dear Joomla fans,

We are happy to announce that we’ve released an extension that will help you to manage your Joomla website easily: JSN PowerAdmin. It is developed with only one purpose: Help you to use Joomla with ease. Now you can enjoy Joomla with Enhanced Administration Menu, Spotlight Search, Site Manager and more.

Here you can check how it works:

This is our contribution towards the Joomla community. So you can download it freely, without registration. Please don’t hesitate to share your usage experience and suggestions with us. We’d love to hear them.

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JSN ImageShow v4.0.0 has been released after quite a long time of development. We believe that you guys will like it since it comes with a lot of useful improvements, and it is now fully compatible with Joomla 2.5.

No more waiting, let's get started.

Improved core architecture

Enhanced core architecture

A lot of automatic installation processes have been implemented to JSN ImageShow v4- sample data, upgrading, themes and so on. Moreover, all image sources have been converted into separate plug-ins. By default, you have the Local Image and Picasa image sources. To get the other image sources, you simply go to the Showlist, click on the installation icons of the component.

Thanks to this work flow, you will get much better performance and keep your Joomla websites lightweight.

Facebook is now so popular, most people have their own account. And when you visit many pages, you can see Facebook like box where they invite you to follow them. You also can see how many people liked them. Do you want to add fan box code on your page? Just follow our guidelines, and you can do it not only on Joomla website 1.5! but also on 2.5!. There are 2 parts:

• Part 1 is for people who only have a Facebook account; you need to create your own fan page.

• Part 2 is for people who already have a fan page. You can start to add fan box code right now.

Create a Facebook Fan page

1. Just login your account and Create a page (You can find in the footer of your page)

To build a Joomla magazine website, besides choosing a suitable template to present the content, you should also install some other extensions. You know, an online magazine can't live without functionality ch as article comments, contact, etc.

Firstly, please make sure that you have installed Six must-have extensions for all Joomla websites. Secondly, let's take a look at the list of essential extensions for aJoomla magazine website below. Please note that, all of them are free. And I have tested to make sure that they work well.

Here we go!

An outstanding example, JoomlaShine templates using many familiar Joomla extensions such as: Kunena, JEvents,Community Builder, K2

Building a great website is what everyone hopes for when they start build their own. But it is hard to create a complete and attractive website without the excellent support of Joomla Extensions. We at JoomlaShine know that, and today in my story I will tell you how graceful and elegant JoomlaShine Templates and Joomla extensions can be! You can do the Joomla templates customization by your self.

It would be too much if we listed all templates and extensions so in this article I will only focus on the featured products below:

K2 VirtueMart Kunena

JEvents Community Builder JoomSocial

If you use Joomla to build websites, the question “Which Joomla extensions should all websites not be without?” must come to mind, at least once. That is the reason why there are plenty of articles with the key phrase “Must-have Joomla extensions” on the Internet.

Each article has its own list of essential extensions based on the author’s experience and here you are going to see another list that helps you build solid websites.

Before going on with ten more Joomla 1.7 native extensions, we hope that you are all pleased with our first ten Joomla 1.7 extensions in round 1.

Mosets Tree

	Compatibility: Joomla 1.0 & 1.5 & 1.7 License: GPLv2 or Later Reviews: 109 Votes: 169 Type: Commercial
Website Demo Download

Mosets Tree is a directory component for Joomla! You can use Mosets Tree to run a complex Yahoo! style directory directly inside your Joomla website. Mosets Tree is designed to handle any data that requires a directory structure such as a business directory, links directory or scripts directory. Because Mosets Tree runs on Joomla!, you have infinite possibilities to include more features to your website by using third party extensions from Joomla! Extensions Directory.

Mosets Tree is the directory extension that powers Joomla! Extensions Directory. These guys have been extremely excited to be working with the Joomla! Team to develop JED. Every feature you see in the Extensions Directory is available in Mosets Tree, except for a few customizations that are specific to Extensions Directory.

If you've heard of the Joomla Extensions Directory (JED) in one of our blog posts and had a look at it, you will find that a great number of new Joomla 1.7 extensions have been releasing every day by developers across the globe.

In our blog post, we'd like to compile the most popular Joomla 1.7 Extensions from JED based on following criteria:

• The extension is Joomla 1.7 Native, of course.
• The extension gets 4.5 star rating or more
• The extension has at least 50 votes from users
• The extension receives good reviews from users
• The extension belongs to featured categories such as Editor's Picks, Popular Extensions and Most Favored.

All above things mean: Users are satisfied with the quality as well as usability of the extensions.
The first round includes ten extensions. We hope you love them all.

Last time, we introduced you to Joomla Extension Directories (JED); and in this second part, you are going to find out how to locate a specific Joomla extension on JED Search System.

JED Search is a good tool for you use to look for Joomla extensions. We recommend you use the Advanced Search for better results.

If you are looking for a Joomla extensions yet don't know where to start, this post is something helpful to begin with. Where is the best place to find a qualified Joomla extension and how can you find it?

Some people, as a habit, access Google and type keywords "Joomla extensions". The link to Joomla! Extension Directory (JED) is shown up right on top of the page result. This is the place where you should go directly to search for whatever Joomla extensions you want.

This post contains two parts:

Part 1: What is JED?

Part 2: How to find a specific Joomla extension on JED Search System?

Here is the first part of the post. Enjoy it!