{"id":2683,"date":"2017-09-27T00:01:13","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T23:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magenticians.com\/?p=2683"},"modified":"2020-06-08T13:59:12","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T12:59:12","slug":"magento-2-top-free-extensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magenticians.com\/magento-2-top-free-extensions\/","title":{"rendered":"20 Best Free Extensions for Magento 2"},"content":{"rendered":"
Disclaimer:\u00a0<\/strong>Magenticians does not necessarily agree with the views expressed in this guest post. They are presented to bring to light all diverse views in the Magento and general ecommerce community.<\/p>\r\nMagento is undoubtedly one of the most popular eCommerce platforms nowadays, and at the end of 2015, its last version Magento 2 was finally released. Although most online merchants continue to use Magento 1, more and more people are making the switch to Magento 2.\r\n\r\nHowever, as the new version of the platform is still on the way to realize its potential, the number of plugins available is not as big as it is for Magento 1. When it comes to free extensions, it is even worse, because mostly only connector extensions are free.\r\n\r\nThat is why I want to share my list and review of 5 quality, can\u2019t-believe-its-free extensions for Magento 2, all developed by certified Magento partners:\r\n Disclaimer:\u00a0Magenticians does not necessarily agree with the views expressed in this guest post. They are presented to bring to light all diverse views in the Magento and general ecommerce community. Magento is undoubtedly one of the most popular eCommerce platforms nowadays, and at the end of 2015, its last version Magento 2 was finally released. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1017,"featured_media":2689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[385,161,58,386],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magenticians.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magenticians.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magenticians.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magenticians.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1017"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magenticians.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magenticians.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magenticians.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magenticians.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magenticians.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magenticians.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Exto Analytics<\/h2>\r\nRunning ecommerce without proper analytics is a waste of money. Your business requires many marketing efforts based on relevant data. If you want to go beyond the limited functions of native Magento 2 reporting, you should try Exto Analytics<\/a>. This analytical tool will help you gain valuable insights about your business and choose a better marketing strategy for your store.\r\n\r\nWhat’s good about it?\r\n
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Free Blog<\/h2>\r\nA well-developed blog helps you to keep in touch with your customers and give them updates on promotions, new products and just any upcoming trends in your business. This Free Blog<\/a> can be a right choice for you Magento 2 store.\r\n\r\nWhy is it good?\r\n
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Banners – Free Responsive Banner Slider<\/h2>\r\nThis Free Banners extension<\/a> provides you an easy way to add your best sellers or new arrivals on every page of the website. Straightforward and efficient.\r\n\r\nWhy is it good?\r\n
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Store Locator<\/h2>\r\nSome ecommerce owners use their website to bring customers to their physical store using Store Locator<\/a> extensions. This extension allows you to place all your stores on Google Map so that your clients can locate them. Customers can search by postcode, city, or use their geolocation.\r\n\r\nWhat is good about it?\r\n
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Delete Orders<\/h2>\r\nMagento does not allow you to delete orders with all invoices, shipments, memos and many other related things just in one click. If you have many test orders or old orders, you\u2019ll have to delete them all with detailed data step by step. This Delete Orders<\/a> extension allows you to clean up your orders fast and easily.\r\n\r\nWhat is good about it?\r\n
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Banner Slider Magento 2<\/h2>\r\nBanner Slider Magento 2<\/a> enables your website to display images with a banner slider using 36 different positions and slider effects. The extension allows you to view and analyze a report on each of your slider so you can effectively adjust them for the best results.\r\n\r\nWhy is it good?\r\n
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Brand Extension For Magento 2<\/h2>\r\nThis extension<\/a> allows you to create and display professional brand carousel and brand pages. You can place your brand image block anywhere on your online store with ease. The module allows you to use the owl carousel to display your store\u2019s logo.\r\n\r\nWhat\u2019s good about it?\r\n
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Google Tag Manager<\/h2>\r\nGoogle Tag Manager<\/a> allows you to manage Google Analytics and AdWords all at once instead of separately. When you add the GTM code on your website, the extension will act as a third-party and handle all your script-tags. GTM\u2019s remarketing program lets you show your ads to visitors over and over again.\r\n\r\nWhy is it good?\r\n
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Magento 2 SMTP<\/h2>\r\nThis free Magento 2 extension<\/a> provides your store with a configurable host and port. You will have more control over your email customization and run test sections on your Magento 2 SMTP server. This is sure to help your emails reach your customers without going into the spam box.\r\n\r\nWhy is it good?\r\n
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Magento 2 Product List<\/h2>\r\nMagento Product List<\/a> decreases your customers\u2019 abandon rate by creating a product list of the latest, best-selling, new and top rated products. This in turn, helps your customers quickly find what they\u2019re looking for. You can add as many rows to your product list as you want.\r\n\r\nWhy is it good?\r\n
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Facebook Comments for Magento 2<\/h2>\r\nThis extension<\/a> permits your customers to add customer reviews on product pages and share them easily. You can customize and embed your customers\u2019 Facebook comment. Customers can also duplicate reviews from product pages to Facebook.\r\n\r\nWhat\u2019s good about it?\r\n
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Promotions Manager for Magento 2<\/h2>\r\nPromotions Manager<\/a> allows you to simplify your online store promotion management by adding actions and columns to the price rules grid. For instance, you can add a number of rules and a discount column on the grid.\r\n\r\nWhy is it good?\r\n
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Free Magento 2 Easy MegaMenu<\/h2>\r\nThis extension<\/a> helps you create an organized menu, especially if you have a lot of products. Easy MegaMenu also helps you display categories as well as corresponding sub-categories. You can also use this extension without the need for coding skills.\r\n\r\nWhy is it good?\r\n
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Watchlog<\/h2>\r\nWatchlog<\/a> protects your Magento 2 store from brute force attacks. The extension provides graphs to store owners to check daily and monthly login attempts. Owners get a summarized and detailed table of all login attempts. The extension allows owners to use emails to schedule a periodic report on the statistics.\r\n\r\nWhy is it good?\r\n
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Fooman Email Attachments<\/b><\/h2>\r\nFooman Email Attachments<\/a> automatically attaches your online store\u2019s invoice, order, shipping and other details to your sales emails. The fine grained settings grant you control over which document you wish to attach to which sales email. You can also choose not to add comments to your PDF documents.\r\n\r\nWhy is it good?\r\n
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Color Swatches Pro for Magento 2<\/h2>\r\nThis extension<\/a> allows store owners to add more functionality to their product color swatches. Color Swatches lets you display the prices of simple products along with the swatches. Magento 2 store owners can permit their customers to share URLs of chosen product configurations. The automatic page reload tool can be used for improved perception of content.\r\n\r\nWhy is it good?\r\n
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Magento 2 Social Login Extension<\/h2>\r\nMagento 2 Social Login<\/a> allows quick login access for customers without the need for complex registration. The extension lets you add social buttons that appear in the login page. When customers click on the buttons, the Social Login module uses their social account email address and password to log them into the store.\r\n\r\nWhat\u2019s good about it?\r\n
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Fooman Print Order Pdf<\/h2>\r\nWith this extension<\/a>, new “Order Confirmation” pdfs are generated from an online store\u2019s Order Overview Screen or from a single Order View page. If you have multiple orders, the extension will display a bulk Order Confirmation document of all the orders in a single PDF document.\r\n\r\nWhy is it good?\r\n
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Magento 2 Change Attribute Set<\/h2>\r\nMagento 2 Change Attribute Set<\/a> lets store owners change a product\u2019s attribute set with only a few clicks. Owners can choose to automatically add configurable attribute to target attribute or ignore it.\r\n\r\nWhat\u2019s good about it?\r\n
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Advanced Shipping<\/h2>\r\nStore owners can use this extension<\/a> to configure shipping fees by variables such as weight, price, destination, categories and more. Advanced Shipping allows owners to change shipping methods using a single text configuration field.\r\n\r\nWhy is it good?\r\n
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\r\n\r\nAuthor Bio<\/h3>\r\nAnastasia Detinkina, Ecommerce and Magento enthusiast, currently works at Kraftblick, has extensive experience in doing marketing for e-commerce websites. Connect with her using Facebook<\/a> & LinkedIn<\/a>.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"