Free Joomla 1.6 Extensions

Joomla is a leading open source content management written in PHP, stores data in MySQL and includes many useful features out of the box such as page caching, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, search, and support for language internationalization. The following content includes a list of discussed extensions for Joomla 1.6! with relevant information that you should be aware of if you are considering using it.

Admin Tool:

1. Akeeba Backup: It is an open-source backup component for the Joomla. Mission is simple: create a site backup that can be restored on any Joomla!-capable server.It creates a full backup of your site in a single archive. The backup and restore process is AJAX powered to avoid server timeouts, even with huge sites. Reliable, easy to use, open source backup solution for your Joomla! site, try it out.

2. Artio JoomSEF for J1.6: A great SEO component to make your Joomla! website search engine friendly and easily human understandable with metadata and sitemap generation capabilities. Supports URL translations at multilingual sites using JoomFish. Wide component through extension system.

3. Xmap for J1.6: Everyone is concerned about SEO and making sure Google has their latest and greatest site map and has indexed every last word they posted. XMap easily takes care of this, and also provides a means to include your site map on your site.

4. JoomSEF Free: SEO component to make your Joomla! URLs SEF (search engine friendly) and easily human understandable with metadata and sitemap generation capabilities. JoomSEF 4 BETA for Joomla 1.6 is available now!

5. Generator changer: Don’t like the way Joomla! puts its name in your site by using the generator meta tag ? There is no way you can change this in the global configuration and when displaying the source code of your site you will always see. With this plugin you can change it to what ever you wish.

6. Clean Response: This plugin allows an administrator to alter that response value to "PHP" (the plugin default), or a user supplied text value.

7. IceSpeed: IceSpeed Plugin decrease the loading time of your website by compressing, optimizing, merging CSS and JavaScript on your website. With this powerful plugin your website will dramatically decrease the loading time as all CSS and JavaScriopt will be compressied and/or merged.

8. eXtplorer: eXtplorer is a web-based File Management Component for all your needs. It has a desktop-application-like interface with drag&drop, grid and a directory tree and makes heavy use of the ExtJS Javascript Library.

9. MetaGenerator: MetaGenerator plugin automatically generates description and keywords meta tags by pulling text from joomla content. With this plugin you can also control some title options. Canonical url has been added, currently only for com_content article view.

Editors

1. JoomlaCK Editor: The JoomlaCK (formal know as the JoomlaFCK) is a super lightweight, powerful and feature rich WYSIWYG editor for Joomla!™. It comes equipped with a gorgeous GUI (Graphical User Interface) and offers a sophisticated set of tools.

2. CKEditor: CKEditor is a text editor to be used inside web pages. It's a WYSIWYG editor, which means that the text being edited on it looks as similar as possible to the results users have when publishing it. It brings to the web common editing features found on desktop editing applications like Microsoft Word and OpenOffice.

3. JCE 2.0 for Joomla 1.6: Add a set of tools to your Joomla!® environment that give you the power to create the kind of content you want, without limitations, and without needing to know or learn HTML, XHTML, CSS...

Free Joomla 1.6 Template:

1. Genesis: Genesis is an updated version of our popular Joomla! 1.5 contest entry that we submitted almost three years ago. This template is super simple and clean as well as upgraded to support the newest version of Joomla!

2. Free Joomla 1.6 Admin Template: Our Free Joomla Admin Template AdminPraise Lite is now ready for Joomla 1.6 and better than ever! If you've enjoyed using our super lightweight admin template in Joomla 1.5, you'll love it in Joomla 1.6.

3. Purple Sky and Clean Style for  Free Joomla 1.6 Template by siteground.com

4. JT eBusiness: JT eBusiness is the joomlathemes first template for Joomla 1.6 which has been designed for corporate, online business website and has lots of great features such as multiple collapsible module positions, drop-down menu style, custom logo module, slideshow.

Community

1. PhocaGuestbook for J1.6: Phoca Guestbook is a Joomla! component. It is a simple guestbook with Captcha system.

2. Community builder: Community Builder extends the Joomla! user management system.Useful to build your valuable relationships between users.CB is compatible with all Joomla! 1.5 native.

3. Unregister++ : Unregister++ is a Joomla! 1.5 extension that gives users the opportunity to delete their own account. This way, users don't have to contact an administrator to have their account deleted. Instead, they can delete their own account. In Joomla! 1.6, users will be able to delete their own account. If you can't wait for Joomla! 1.6.

4. Easybook: Easybook reloaded is an easy and simple guestbook component for Joomla! 1.5 and 1.6 which, nevertheless.

Media:

1. Very Simple Image Gallery: The "Very Simple Image Gallery" Plugin for Joomla! 1.5 and Joomla! 1.6 is a downgrade of the ingenious plugin "Simple Image Gallery" from Fotis Evangelou und George Chouliaras back to a "Web 1.0" gallery. The modified version comes without a lightbox, the plugin shows one large image, followed by thumbnails.

2. Random FLV Player: A module extension for the the Joomla 1.5 + 1.6 CMS. It plays a random list of flvs using the Flash media player. To use it, install the module using the Joomla installer. Enable it using the module manager. Upload your flvs to the folder 'media/flvs'.

3. Random MP3 Player: A module extension for the the Joomla 1.5 + 1.6 CMS. It plays a random list of mp3s using the Flash media player. Usage. Install the module using the Joomla installer. Enable it using the module manager.

4. Ozio Gallery: Ozio Gallery 3 is available and ready for Joomla 1.6, Photo Gallery that uses a 3d flash animation (TiltViewer Design/Development by Airtight) to automatically display the images in a particular folder or from Flickr.com.

5. Phoca Gallery: Phoca Gallery is a Joomla! gallery - image gallery for Joomla! CMS. It includes component, modules and plugins and allows users to display images or Youtube.

6. Nivo-Szaki Slider: Nivo Slider is a lightweight Joomla jQuery slideshow module for creating good-looking image sliders. It simply converts an element that wraps images into a slider and offers 9 unique transition effects. T

Form:

1. SmartFormer Gold: Great environment to create interactive functionality of any complexity basing on forms. You are limited by your requirements only, the interface is so flexible that you can to literary any functionality here. You can create a shopping cart, a social component, an offer with price calculation basing on Gold and much more.

2. BreezingForms: BreezingForms, the only form builder in the Joomla! sphere with three form creation interfaces. QuickMode for the non-programmers, EasyMode for designers and ClassicMode for programmers and fans of FacileForms.

3. DFContact: DFContact is a Joomla! 1.5 contact form component which is extremely easy to configure and has captcha support using com_securityimages 5.1. It uses the global Joomla settings to send emails (mail(), sendmail or SMTP). We also have a beta for Joomla 1.6 beta.

4. Login Register Module: The Benefit of using this module is that it uses Jquery and enables both Login and registration from a module itself without having user to go the registration page.

5. RapidContactXT: With JUST 5 euros, Rapid Contact Ex is a fully customizable Contact Form Extension, available in both Module and Component Forms.

News Production

1. Category Block: The extension to show an articles in a blog mode, this component extracts first photo and first few words from the article, to make a nice description with "Read More..." link.