The 10 best free and popular Joomla 2.5 extensions
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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
Whilst Joomla's built-in editor is limited to edit rich content, Joomla Content Editor (JCE) is truly a powerful WYSIWYG editor with many features. JCE includes advanced Image/Media, File and Link handling, plugin support, and an Administration interface for editor configuration. It meets your requirement to create any kind of content you want without needing to know HTML, XHTML, CSS, etc. You can create custom users or user profiles with your own image/file folders, editor layouts, buttons and plugin features. JCE makes content editing become fast, easy and convenient.
AllVideos - Video player
- Compatibility: Joomla 1.5, 1.6, 1.7 and 2.5
- License: GPLv2 or later
- Reviews: 200+
- Votes: 370+
- Website - Demo - Download
Videos and Audios created by AllVideos
AllVideos is an incredible plugin for people who love sharing or uploading videos and audio. This all-in-one media management extension allows you to easily embed media hosted on popular services like YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, SoundCloud (and many more) in your Joomla articles (or in other components such as K2, redShop, Virtuemart, etc.). You can create playback of almost any audio/video file format hosted on your server or even a remote server.
Mini FrontPage - Frontend News
- Compatibility: Joomla 1.7 and 2.5
- License: GPLv2 or later
- Reviews: 80+
- Votes: 180+
- Website - Demo - Download
MiniFrontpage
Mini FrontPage, one of the highest rated modules in JED, is a great option for you to show articles or news listings in headline style. The articles and news from preferred sections or categories are arranged with slide in/out or fade in/out effects, with pagination that depends on the amount of introductory text and the number of columns set in module parameters. You can also customize its view from various layouts.
DJ Image Slider - Image MooTools Slideshow
- Compatibility: Joomla 1.5, 1.6, 1.7 and 2.5
- License: GPLv2 or later
- Reviews: 80+
- Votes: 100+
- Website - Demo - Download
DJ Image Slider
DJ Image Slider, the product of the developer Design-Joomla.eu, is one of the best Joomla extensions, which allows you to display a gallery of your images with a title and short description linked to any menu item or url address. You can create categories for your slides or customize the interface in module parameters.
Art Sexy Lightbox Lite - Photo Gallery
- Compatibility: Joomla 1.5, 1.6, 1.7 and 2.5
- License: GPLv2 or later
- Reviews: 80+
- Votes: 100+
- Website - Demo - Download
Art Sexy Lightbox Lite
Art Sexy Lightbox Lite is another image slider tool. This is the free version of extremely popular Art Sexy Lightbox extension. With Art Sexy Lightbox Lite, it's easy to create an impressive gallery of pictures in different ways: displaying local photos or photo groups with fancy lightbox effects and 6 themes (black, white, new_black, new_white, spanish_black, spanish_white), customizing thumbnails, showing multiple galleries and much more.
JFusion - Authentication bridges
- Compatibility: Joomla 1.5, 1.6, 1.7 and 2.5
- License: GPLv2 or later
- Reviews: 180+
- Votes: 320+
- Website - Download
JFusion Component Control Panel
JFusion is a free GPL plugin for Joomla. That is an ultimate bridging solution, which helps connect Joomla to various applications with ease. You can use JFusion to integrate general users by extending the Joomla 2.5 user authentication framework without any core hacks.
JFusion includes some useful features such as search plugin, discussion bot and modules (login module, latest activity module, user activity module, who is online module). Moreover, JFusions supports quite a lot of frameworks: vBulletin 3.8.0, phpBB 3.0.x, MyBB 1.4, SMF 1.1.8, Wordpress and more.
Last but not least, the support for this extension is excellent as well.
AcyMailing Starter - Newsletter
- Compatibility: Joomla 1.5, 1.6, 1.7 and 2.5
- License: GPLv2 or later
- Reviews: 330+
- Votes: 430+
- Website - Demo - Download
AcyMailing
AcyMailing is a reliable newsletter and email marketing extension for Joomla. AcyMailing Starter is one of 4 different editions released: Starter, Essential, Business and Enterprise. AcyMailing is supposed to be an easy-to-use tool for you to efficiently manage subscriptions, newsletters and emails from your customers, maintaining good relationships with them. Besides, AcyMailing uses the Joomla MVC (Model-View-Controller) model to let you customize any view.
Only AcyMaling Starter edition is free for downloading, the others are not. Therefore, it has limited features and functions compared with the others. However, it is totally suited to individuals who have small-scale blogs or websites with a medium amount of visitors.
JDownloads - Download
- Compatibility: Joomla 1.5, 1.6, 1.7 and 2.5
- License: GPLv2 or later
- Reviews: 100+
- Votes: 180+
- Website - Demo - Download
JDownloads
JDownloads is an extensive download manager for Joomla with outstanding functionality. It is considered a powerful and excellent component by many users. With JDownloads, you can easily control downloads and uploads, permit or restrict downloading, also create categories, upload and insert files in articles, display them in modules and much more. There are many other impressive features: the automation feature, the available content plugin features, full ACL controls, etc. that you can discover gradually.
Display News by BK - Frontend News
- Compatibility: Joomla 1.5, 1.6, 1.7 and 2.5
- License: GPLv2 or later
- Reviews: 110+
- Votes: 160+
- Website - Demo - Download
Display News by BK layout
Display News by BK is a great module that integrates a handful of essential features for news/articles display. BK stands for Boris Komraz, this extension's developer. There are many options in module parameters for you to configure, making a suitable content presentation. Content items can be shown in vertical and horizontal positions. In addition, the module supports different style families: content items styles, table styles and display news dedicated styles. This module is based on Rey Gigataras's Display News Module.
JoomGallery - Photo Gallery
- Compatibility: Joomla 1.5, 1.7 and 2.5
- License: GPLv2 or later
- Reviews: 140+
- Votes: 250+
- Website - Demo - Download
JoomGallery - photo categories
JoomGallery is a gallery component completely integrated into Joomla, and now ready for Joomla 2.5. It has great features with many configurations to support creating unique galleries from categories. You have complete control over the design of your galleries via CSS-based layout, MVC structured code and template override.
In addition, the component supports various third-party extensions such as Community Builder, Community Builder Enhanced, JomSocial, Kunena, AlphaUserPoints, JComments, JomComment, XMap, sh404SEF, Artio JoomSEF, SEFAdvanced, JoomFish and reCaptcha.
In conclusion
Hopefully, along with the recently-released Joomla 2.5, you will find this article helpful for getting one or more great extensions suitable for your websites. If you are satisfied with them, just visit JED to rate them and give your reviews. Last but not least, don't hesitate to leave your comments on this blog. We will really appreciate it.
Comments
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Thursday, 17 May 2012
I'm glad to see you like it. Thank you for your comment
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Thursday, 17 May 2012Thanks for some amazing resources here on this post. DJ Image Slider looks really smart.
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Friday, 18 May 2012
Hi, you're welcome. And thank you for your interest in our blog.
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Friday, 29 June 2012
Wow thanks for Referencing me in the info about "Display News by BK"
After almost 10years since I stopped worked on this Module, its kinda nice to still see a lil note
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Monday, 23 July 2012
You're welcome! This is really great module to display news and many website use it
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Wednesday, 04 July 2012
ur modules are amazing ...thx for for releasing it can pls help me with positioning the modules in my template
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Monday, 23 July 2012
Thanks for your comment. And I'm so happy to see that it's useful to you
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Sunday, 22 July 2012
All the above modules you have mentioned are great and are really helpful. Thanks for sharing it with us.
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Monday, 23 July 2012
It's my pleasure
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Saturday, 28 July 2012
Great list again Hanh.
We always like to suggest Akeeba Backup too. I think it's almost so popular that people forget about it. It can definitely save your sanity!! I sometimes can't believe it's free.
I think Akeeba Backup is probably the very first extension I install with each new site.
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Monday, 30 July 2012
Actually, Akeeba Backup was mentioned in previous blog posts about Joomla 1.7 extensions. I just want to make this blog post is fresh and more interesting.
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Sunday, 12 August 2012
nice post. Thanks. you can also use these extensions on mobile devices also. see the book on Joomla! Mobile Web Development. Thanks.
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Sunday, 19 August 2012
Thanks for your information!
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Thursday, 23 August 2012
Vergy usefull info, im updating my joomla site thanks for share the info
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Friday, 24 August 2012
@Alex Knight and Jose Tapia: Thank you guys! You make my day.
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Friday, 24 August 2012
Hi Hanh,
Thank you for sharing these amazing tips! I already use some of the stuffs you mentioned here! I'm in search for a lightbox image popup plugin... been trying out various things, but none is working well. I was using multithumb for a while, but it doesn't work fine on Firefox and Safari and unstable. Just tried out Art Sexy Lightbox as well. But it doesn't help me!
This is what I'm trying to do. I need a plugin which can create lightbox popup for all existing images in my articles. Any suggestions?
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Friday, 24 August 2012
Hi Aneesh,
Uhm, it's weird! I use Art Sexy Lightbox on Firefox, and everything works well. You could ask the developer of this extensions, they will help you.
Have you tried out Roxbox or Boxplus? I think these extensions are good too, especially Roxbox. Or you can find others in http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/multimedia/multimedia-display.
Hope it works for you!
If you have any question, just feel free to ask me.
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Tuesday, 28 August 2012
Awesome Job Men!
Para los amigos que hablan español! este es el lugar donde uno puede encontrar los mejores plugins, y extensions de Joomla!· Hanh likes this comment. -
Wednesday, 05 September 2012
Thank you for your warm words! I'm glad to see that you and many people love our blog.
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Sunday, 02 September 2012
What about a blog module??
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Wednesday, 05 September 2012
Hi Daniele,
If you want to know about blog extensions, you can read another our post that is http://www.joomlashine.com/blog/joomla-blog-what-do-you-need-to-have-a-good-one.html. -
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Wednesday, 05 September 2012
You're welcome!
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Wednesday, 19 September 2012
Wow, great templates... Keep working like this.. cherrs
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Monday, 24 September 2012
Hello,
I am very new to joomla and I use 2.5. I am trying to build a website for a news agency that allows their reporters all over the world to add news content from front end. Does any1 know a nu free extension that can do this?
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Tuesday, 25 September 2012
Thank you so much for this review, i made some choice here that i will put on my free joomla website creator you can see here
_ AllVideos
_ DJ Image Slider
_ AcyMailing
_ perhaps Mini FrontPage.
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Friday, 05 October 2012
Thank you for this wonderful review , I was looking for a download plugin ... I got it
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Friday, 05 October 2012
What is the best way to start a blog with Joomla2.5? I'm a total newb.
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Thursday, 18 October 2012
I'm rediscovering Joomla. These will definitely help! Thanks for sharing!
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Saturday, 20 October 2012
Hi, Can u suggest a decent component for Jobs & Recruitment? I have tried with few without much satisfaction.
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Saturday, 27 October 2012
Hey man, thanks a lot. I was looking for a long time for some cool plugins on one page!
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Monday, 05 November 2012
Thanks a lot :X
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Tuesday, 13 November 2012
Thanks
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Thursday, 20 December 2012
Thanx 4 every thin
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Saturday, 05 January 2013
Thanks for fabulous modules. I loved them
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Tuesday, 08 January 2013
Thanks Hanh, these are fabulous and great extensions, am smiling!!
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Friday, 18 January 2013
I really love the JCE editor. It really allows me to maximize the lay-out of the frontpage of my Joomla websites. But your post let me discover more of the fuctionality of Joomla. Please keep it up-to-date!
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Friday, 18 January 2013
I am called Biniam Taddele from Ethiopia I have developed more than 6 websites. I develop most of from scratch using php and html. lately i discover joomla and i love it. i am grateful for sharing us what you know. i would love to share you too. keep in touch
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Tuesday, 22 January 2013
Nice article. Awesome info ! thanks
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Thursday, 24 January 2013
Really great, thanks a lot!
I would only add VirtueMart as the best Joomla plugin for starting an online store.
Here is a nice review for people who are interested:
http://www.shopping-cart-migration.com/blog/48-virtuemart/5363-virtual-virtuemart-virtues -
Saturday, 16 February 2013
with these,u are my love
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Monday, 18 February 2013
Thanks for this useful information, specially AcyMailing Starter - Newsletter
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Monday, 04 March 2013
Thanks Brother for your sharing.
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Wednesday, 27 March 2013
I can't download Mini FrontPage , did you have a new link ??
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Friday, 29 March 2013Please try the new link. I've updated their latest links - https://www.templateplazza.com/register?view=login&return=L3Byb2R1Y3RzL2ZyZWViaWVzL2V4dGVuc2lvbnMvZG9jX2Rvd25sb2FkLzE1LW1pbmktZnJvbnRwYWdl (Registration is required)
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Sunday, 31 March 2013
thanx hanh for this free extensions
i want know u give me ur facebook
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The joomla 2.5 extensions are amazing and quite easy to use.I like the JFusion extension as it is a free GPL plugin for Joomla. It is an ultimate bridging solution, it helps connect Joomla to various applications with ease.