Top 5 Free Joomla Extensions You Must Have

Joomla is suitable for creating a simple website. If you want your website to be more professional and flexible, install the following extensions:

SP Page Builder

SP Page Builder is packed with amazing features that will make building a website the easiest. Find the perfect SP Page Builder templates to create the best websites. The most flexible and user-friendly free Joomla page builder. You will definitely love this extension.

Features:

• 100% of pages are mobile optimized and responsive
• Row-column structure from simple to complex
• Powerful media manager
• Add custom CSS
• Facebook Open Graph Data

K2

K2 provides an out-of-the-box solution with rich content forms for sections (think Joomla articles with additional fields for article images, videos, image galleries, and attachments). ), nested level categories, tags, comments, a system to extend the item base form with additional fields (similar to CCK for those familiar with Drupal), a powerful plugin API to item extensions, categories and userforms, ACLs, UI editing, sub-templates and much more!

Using K2, you can transform your Joomla website into a news/magazine website with author blog, product catalog, work portfolio, knowledge base, download/resource manager. materials, directory listings, event listings, and more, all wrapped up in one package!

Features:

• Nested level categories
• Comments, integration with Google's reCaptcha & Akismet
• Card
• Separate item images (useful for articles/categories)
• Image Gallery / Video / Attachments
• User page (author blog / user profile)
• Smart ACL for UI editing
• Native Advanced SEF options - Check
  Google's structured data aggregation
• Support Facebook OpenGraph & Twitter Cards
• Built-in media manager

Akeeba Backup

Akeeba Backup Core is the most widely used open source backup component for Joomla!. It creates a website backup that can be restored on any Joomla server. Backup and restore is supported by AJAX to avoid server timeouts, even with large sites. Alternatively, you can backup just your database or just your files. Akeeba Backup is a reliable, easy-to-use open source backup solution for your Joomla.

Features:

• Automatic configuration with Configuration Wizard.
• The fastest and most reliable native PHP backup engine.
• One-click backup, available as backend menu items or quick icons of Joomla dashboard.
• Restore with Akeeba Kickstart (free script): restore unzip the backup directly on the server; no need to upload thousands of files using FTP.
• Multiple backup profiles with independently managed configuration options.
• Choose between the standard ZIP format or the highly efficient JPA archive format.
• Exclude specific files and folders.
• Exclude specific database tables or their contents.
• Archives can be restored on any storage server. Useful for transferring your site between subdomains/hosts or even to/from your local test server (e.g. XAMPP, WAMPServer, MAMP, etc.).

JCE

One of the best WYSIWYG editor for Joomla. It is used to replace the default editor.

Features:

• Office-like functions and familiar buttons make formatting simple
• Upload, rename, delete, cut/copy/paste images and insert them into your posts using an intuitive and familiar interface
• Create links to categories, articles, web links and contacts within your website using a unique and practical link browser
• Easily switch between WYSIWYG, Code and Preview modes.
• Create Tables, edit Styles, format text and more...
• Built-in spell checker using your browser's Spell Checker
• Fine-grained control over editor layout and features with Editor Profiles assigned by region, element, user group, and user.

Google Structured Data

Google Structured Data is an SEO Joomla extension that allows digital marketers to use Google Tags - Structured Data and Rich Results without requiring them to be an expert. Schema.org language expert or coding. Take control of Google Search Results by adding Google Structured Data Markup to your Joomla site and boost your SEO. Seamless compatibility with Joomla Content, K2, VirtueMart, HikaShop & Zoo Content Builder.

Features:

• Improve your website SEO
• 11 SEO rich snippets in JSON format
• Article schema data with Star Rating Snippets
• Product schema data with star rating snippet
• Rich card recipes with star rating code snippets
• Event structured data
• Site Name Structured Data
• Site logo structured data
• List of Local Businesses
• Sitelink search box structured data
• Social profile linked data
• Breadcrumbs structured data
• Bing & Yahoo support

Except for K2, these extensions are to be compatible with Joomla 4. I hope K2 will release an update for J4 soon, which is to be expected.