Magento: 5 essential extensions

There are nearly 5000 extensions available on the Magento Connect store. Some are more useful than others are.

Improve performance, management references or finer statistics ... Some extensions are essential for e-commerce sites built with Magento.

1. Enhanced Admin Product Grid for better management of the catalog

Export CSV / XML column dedicated to categories, product search: extension can improve the functionality and back office of Magento e-commerce.

Adding images and columns in the grid products, better search references massive change simplified export CSV ... : Enhanced Admin Product Grid makes it easy to add useful and customizable features in the grid management products.

Although Magento is natively with a large number of features and an administration interface among the richest in the industry, e-tailers want to customize some information to better manage their daily business. This extension is their indispensable.

2. Fooman GoogleAnalytics + to boost Google Analytics

The extension Fooman GoogleAnalyticsPlus is available free on the official online store Magento Connect.

The extension allows GoogleAnalyticsPlus refine Google Analytics statistics for e-commerce site built using Magento.

The integration of Google Analytics in a commercial site is almost systematic. However, native Magento Google Analytics can record some actions performed by users. Fooman GoogleAnalyticsPlus saves the path of the user much more finely and display more accurate reporting. This extension allows for example to follow every single page, including AJAX sections recovered in the purchase tunnel, filter statistical reports by new client or customer already come, or follow the conversion rate Adwords.

Price: Free

3. Delete AnyOrder, essential in order to remove commands

DeleteAnyOrder eliminates orders charged back office. Installation is therefore essential before moving the production site.

In pre -production or because of the creation of test orders, it is desirable to permanently remove these commands from the back office to avoid distorting the statistics of the shop. Natively, Magento does not delete orders invoiced and therefore completed, the back office. Although this is a logical behavior (an invoice does not have to be removed), many users want to benefit from this feature. This extension allows to precisely removing the controls, regardless of their status: canceled, terminated, etc.... That it removes comments, invoices, shipments, and payments and need re- integrates the corresponding stock.

Price: 35 euros

4. Nitrogento to boost performance

Nitrogento can significantly improve the speed of an e-commerce site.

Automatic deployment of media and images CDN, since setting the backoffice of "Expires headers", "Etags" and "Gzip" cached blocks that are not already: Nitrogento was designed to be an extension "All in one" in terms of optimization.

This indispensable extension can significantly boost the performance of the Magento site to reduce server resources up to 8 times and reduce by 2 or 3 loading some pages. However, a quick shop sells more.

Price: 299 euros (free trial version)

5. Extension Conflict for the sustainability of the system

Extension Conflict shows potential conflicts in a column in the back office. The extension also offers click on it to resolve. Magento Extension Conflict highlights the conflict between Magento extensions installed and offers to solve.

The addition of new features on the Magento site is a breeze. However multiplying installing extensions, there is a risk that some of them act simultaneously on a single feature or the one of your specific developments. Extension Conflict avoids these problems. This extension also allows you to submit a config.xml file from another computer, which will test upstream if an installation is likely to create a conflict with extensions already installed.

Price: 19 euros