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JOOMLA EXTENSIONS

Solutions every Joomla developer needs to know about

Created of pages

SP PAGE BUILDER

Complete Joomla solution for anyone who needs to build a website from a ready-made template or create specific pages, addons and content blocks on an existing website.

The extension is available in a free version, but we recommend the paid version so that you have access to ready-made layouts and other benefits.

See some of the possibilities that SP Page Builder offers:
* Create a new website by choosing one of the available templates as a quick start.
* Adding new pages from ready-made layouts or manually defining the grids where modules, content blocks and addons will be loaded.
* Choose content blocks with ready-made layouts for needs such as: slideshows, banners, features, content in different formats, price list, call to actions, testimonials and much more.
* Add addons for needs like: accordion, contact form, animated text, buttons, counter, image gallery, popup, navigation, icons and more.

One of the amazing things about the extension is its compatibility with sites that already have other templates in use. You can use the extension only on certain pages by selecting available layout options.

Another interesting issue regarding compatibility is being able to add blocks and addons to pages that were not created with SP Page Builder. This is done through a module that the extension provides. With this feature, you can, for example, add a ready-made block of SP Page Builder testimonials inside the existing page.

Want to know one more curiosity? This landing page where we are listing the best Joomla extensions was quickly created with the SP Page Builder extension.

Events calendar

NO BOSS CALENDAR

No Boss Calendar is the most interesting solution these days for anyone who wants to make an event calendar available on their website. There are several options for modern layouts that can be used as a quick start.

See some relevant points of the extension:

* Calendar creation in a few minutes using more than 19 ready-made layout options.
* Integration with Google Calendar.
* Registration of events with recurrence options.
* Availability of the extension in 18 languages.

The extension has full marks in the JED and has been constantly improved. In contact with the company No Boss Extensions, they informed that in the first half of 2023 new features and new layouts will be made available.

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If you want to save even more, one option is to purchase the extension within the combo of 17 extensions that No Boss Extensions offers.

Newsletters

ACYMAILING

This is a complete newsletter extension. With it, you have everything you need and are free of expensive monthly fees that other solutions like Mailchimp charge.

The only requirement is that you have available on your website's server the sending of emails in volumes corresponding to your needs. Or use integration with some email triggering solution that the extension offers.

Free version features:

* Creation of integrated mailing lists with users of your Joomla site.
* Creation of newsletter form to capture new users.
* Sending e-mails with manual shooting.
* Visualization of basic statistics of shipments made.

The free version already allows you to make your shipments smoothly. However, it is really worth purchasing the paid version not only for practicality, but mainly for you to be able to make adjustments so that your emails do not fall into blacklists or SPAM boxes.

Here are some features that the paid version offers:

Rejection handling
* Extremely useful for blocking users who have invalid emails and other reasons that can lower your email account reputation. The better your reputation, the less chance your emails will end up in SPAM boxes.

SPAM Test

* For each email you send, you can run a test to check the probability of falling into SPAM. The return of the test indicates a note as a result and an indication of any problems, giving you the chance to correct them before sending.

Email segmentation

* It is possible to segment the sending of the e-mail by different rules, the most interesting being the restriction of only sending the e-mail to those who have already read a certain e-mail previously sent.

Statistics

* In the paid version, it is possible to analyze information by user, map of clicks, details of links, among others.

Scheduled emails

* It is possible to schedule the sending of the e-mail for a certain date in which the e-mail will be triggered alone, without the need to trigger it manually.

Automation

* It is possible to configure rules for sending automatic email for standard situations (user creation, birthday, when user clicks on a link in the email sent, when user opens an email, etc.)

Newsletter form

* It is possible to integrate with the other extension "Convert forms" mentioned also in this page. In convert forms you have layout models already stylized, better than the basic ones offered in AcyMailing.

Joomla email replacements

* It is possible to create a custom email for each standard action that Joomla has natively (account creation, password reminder, etc)

Email sending services

* It is possible to use several services from your server (phpmail, smtp, senmail, sengrid, etc) or integrate with services such as Amazon SES.
* Recently an e-mail service with AcyMailing servers has also become available. This service can be contracted together with the purchase of the extension, where the price varies according to the number of users used in the shipments.

Cleanup of fake emails

* By installing the Acy Checker extension you can clean up fake users in both Joomla and email lists.
* In the free version of the Acy Checker extension it only tests 50 emails.

About our experience:

* We already used the free version of the extension for a long time, but we migrated to the paid one in order to have more statistics, use segment criteria and reduce the level of SPAM.
* We use the SendMail option of the server where the site is hosted as a sending solution.
* In the e-mail sending processing queue, we configure it to send 120 e-mails at a time, with an interval of 5 minutes between each sending. This configuration is used to prevent the company where we host the website from blocking our account.

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Content modals

ENGAGEBOX

Popup extension every Joomla developer needs to have. This extension allows you to insert content and addons in different ways without having to readjust the existing layout on your website.

The extension has the principle of displaying the contents superimposed on the site's content. The display occurs from triggers that can be defined in the administrative area (page loading, button click, among others).

Content display formats include popup, slide-in, floating bar, welcome mat, fullscreen and slidebar.

See examples of content formats you can add:
* Welcome popup or warnings, with the possibility to display action buttons.
* Content displayed in fullscreen including action buttons and forms.
* Slide-in displayed with relevant content, cookie acceptance messages, promotions, among others.
* Floating bar to display promotions or notices with counter, buttons and discount coupons at the top of the site.
* Slidebar to display an additional menu or contents that detail something that appeared on the page in abbreviated form.

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Contact Form

CONVERT FORMS

Extension used to create contact forms, but which actually allows you to create forms for any type of data entry.

You can create forms with different types of fields and the data can be saved locally, sent by email, displayed in PDF or even sent to other solutions via integration.

The following is a brief description of the administrative sections of the extension:

Dashboard
* Provides quick access to the extension's admin area and main statistics of received data.

Form creation
* You start by creating the form from scratch or from ready-made templates.
* There are several types of fields available and it is possible to define display conditions between them. Example: display field B only when the user selects a certain option in field A.
* It is possible to configure sending the form data by e-mail, in addition to saving it in a local base where it can be consulted later.
* An additional resource that can be used is the automatic generation of a pdf with the data sent by the user in the form.
* In addition to custom CSS and JS code, you can add PHP code to run at certain times of submission.

Campaigns
* Campaigns are created to link to forms.
* In each campaign it is possible to configure integration with complements / addons that we will talk about next.

Complements / Addons
* There are several add-ons that can be configured to integrate with forms.
* Example of add-ons: AcyMailing, ConvertKit, MailChimp, Zapier, Zoho, among others.

Records
* Space where all submissions made in the forms that are set to save the information locally are displayed.

Actual usage example:
At the end of this page we have our newsletter that you can sign up to receive our tips. This newsletter form was created with a ready-made Convert Forms layout template and was integrated with the AcyMailing extension.

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Security

AKEEBA ADMIN TOOLS

This extension is a mandatory requirement for anyone who wants to keep their site secure.

The extension allows you to define many security rules that are controlled partly via the plugin and partly via the htaccess file.

It is the best solution for Joomla in this sense, being used by several institutions and bodies that seek to guarantee the security of their websites.

The extension is available in a free version, but we recommend the paid version to have all the security features.

You can purchase the extension individually or together with the "Akeeba Backup" solution that will be presented in the next topic. When you buy both extensions together, you save 25%.

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Backup

AKEEBA BACKUP

If the Admin Tools extension was a mandatory requirement for security, the Akeeba Backup extension is a requirement for anyone who wants to keep backup copies of their website, having the reliability of never having their data lost.

In addition to backup, the extension provides features that allow you to easily migrate the site from one server to another.

The extension is available in free version and paid version.

You can purchase the extension individually or together with the "Akeeba Admin Tools" solution that was presented in the previous topic. When you buy both extensions together, you save 25%.

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Websites management

YOURSITES

This is an extension that few know about, but which is extremely useful for anyone who works managing multiple Joomla and Wordpress sites.

Basically the extension allows you to automatically obtain information from your website and remotely perform CMS updates and extensions.

How the extension works:
* You choose a Joomla site to use as centralized site management and install the extension on that site. In our scenario we create a Joomla installation just for this and we call it "Site Manager".
* In the extension you will individually register each site that you will manage. You can register Joomla and Wordpress sites as well.
* For each registered site, you will download the installer of a plugin that must be installed on the site. This plugin will be used to allow communication between our management extension and the site that will be managed.
* Once registered, several options are available, for example:
     * Get Joomla/Wordpress version.
     * View each installed extension/plugin with version breakdown.
     * View server information including PHP version and database.
     * Access the site's admin area with just one client without having to authenticate.
     * Remotely update Joomla/Wordpress.
     * Remotely update one or more website extensions/plugins.

Something interesting about the extension is that it is very parameterizable. You can still:
* Create custom fields to use when registering sites.
* Configure own viewing screens of registered sites, defining the most relevant information to be displayed.
* Configure the security methods to be used in the communication between the sites.

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