Joomla extensions do significantly improve the functionality of your Joomla website. From security, SEO, site speed and other functionalties, extensions are of great importance. They can enhance your Joomla site front end and improve the experience of your 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 best Joomla extensions that we would recommend for almost any Joomla site.

Here is our list. Please note that the order does not mean any preference.

1. JCE (Joomla Content Editor)

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.

Key Features

Includes advanced Image, File and Link handling, plugin support, and an Administration interface for editor configuration.

Office-like functions and familiar buttons make formatting simple
Upload, rename, delete, cut/copy/paste images and insert them into your articles using an intuitive and familiar interface
Create Links to Categories, Articles, Weblinks and Contacts in your site using a unique and practical Link Browser
Easily tab between WYSIWYG, Code and Preview modes.
Create Tables, edit Styles, format text and more...
Integrated Spellchecking using your browser's Spellchecker
Fine-grained control over the editor layout and features with Editor Profiles assigned by area, component, usergroup and user


2. Akeeba Backup

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.

Key Features:

The Configuration Wizard configures itself for optimal operation with your site, automatically.
The fastest and most reliable native PHP backup engine.
One click backup.
Integrated restoration for same server restoration.
Site transfer wizard. Transfer your site between servers fast and easily.
Restore with Akeeba Kickstart (free of charge script): restore extracting the backup directly on the server; no need to upload thousands of files by FTP!
Choose between standard ZIP or highly efficient JPA archive format.
Exclude specific files, folders.
Exclude specific database tables or their contents.
Unattended backup mode (CRON job scheduling), fully compatible with Webcron.org
Archives can be restored on any host. Useful for transferring your site between subdomains/hosts or even to/from your local testing server (e.g. XAMPP, WAMPServer, MAMP, etc).

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