Magento is one of the leading platforms used for eCommerce web development. Magento development is used to build many online stores that can provide a seamless shopping experience to online buyers. Magento is renowned or many things and one of them is Magento extension.
Magento extensions not only speed up eCommerce web development, but it also helps in speeding up Magento development by providing the required functionalities as a ready to use extension.
These Magento extensions can be free or paid depending on the provider. In this article, I will share details about the top extensions that will be needed by any Magento development expert in 2020. Moreover, these extensions are available for free.
- Speedster by Fooman
If your online store struggles with slow load speed, Fooman Speedster is the Magento extension you must want your Magento development expert to use. It blends multiple CSS and JavaScript files into a single CSS and JS file including gzip support. It further lessens the HTTP requests for empty caches and cumulative sizes of the files. Ultimately, this Magento extension reduces website load time and quickly loads the site.
- Free Banners Slideshow
This extension allows e-commerce store owners to manage we banners from the store frontend in an image slider. It offers several settings to enhance the view of banners such as:
- Autoplay settings
- Banner resizing
- Transition effects
- And more
- Easy Lightbox 2.0
It demonstrates pictures of your product in a fine-looking lightbox window. It gives a more pleasant representation of your merchandise to shoppers. You can modify and enhance the following for your products:
- Lightbox window appearance
- Label of image
- Product thumbnail image
- Size of the main image
- Overlay fade
- And more
- jQuery Lightboxes
It has multiple applications such as:
- Default zoom bar removal
- Thumbnail image size optimization
- And more
It comes with a wide variety of jQuery Lightboxes, which are listed below:
- FancyBox
- prettyPhoto
- PiroBox
- Lightbox Clone
- PiroBox Extended
- Sidebar Navigation Menu Professional
It unites an upright menu, which can expand and collapse. It has thirty different options arrange the sidebar menu hassle-free and have complete control over it. It is a sidebar menu, which displays thumbnail categories pictures.
- Catalog Search Refinement FREE by Activo Extensions
It improves the search-ability of your online store. Usually, when shoppers try several words in the search bar, the items displayed in the search results do not reflect the connection between the words, and the result might not be as expected.
This extension makes sure that your Magento development team can build an eCommerce website that only shows the relevant items that match the words used in the search. For example, if a shopper explores ‘black phone cover’, it will show phone covers which are available in black color instead of showing everything available with the words “Black”, “Phone”, and “Cover”.
Conclusion
These six major extensions help in simplifying Magento store development. There are many more Magento extensions available in the market. You must use the one as per your needs or take the help of a Magento development company that knows the top extensions of 2020.