Joomla is used as a back-end system for at least 2.8% of all websites worldwide ranging from personal blogs to corporate, political, and government sites. New Joomla 3.0 also allows users with any level of expertise to build beautiful and professional looking websites. The strength of this CMS is not only the community, but also a huge amount of available extensions.
Some of the popular & top rated extensions over the update process, so as to be fully compatible with the latest version of Joomla 3.0. Here are a few of them.
| Name | URL | Short Desciption |
| K2 | getk2.org | K2 provides an out-of-the box integrated solution featuring rich content forms for items (think of 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 acquainted with Drupal), a powerful plugin API to extend item, category and user forms, ACL, frontend editing, sub-templates. |
| News Show Pro GK4 |
www.gavick.com | The best Joomla module for presenting articles. A huge number of options and possibilities for formatting makes News Show Pro GK4 a complete tool for making attractive www pages content. This Joomla module is useful for preparing simple structures for individual articles, as well as complex arrangements for multiple articles and a list of links. |
| Admin Tools | akeebabackup.com | A Joomla! component bundle which strives to enhance your site's security, make common administration tasks easier and even allow you to update your core Joomla! installation with a single click. |
| Akeeba Backup | akeebabackup.com | Award-winning full site backup component for Joomla! 3.0 sites. As the successor to the acclaimed JoomlaPack component, Akeeba Backup builds on its strong legacy to deliver an easy to use, yet powerful, solution to backing up, restoring and moving your site between servers of the same or different architecture. |
| ACL Manager | aclmanager.net | The award winning Joomla extension that will save you a lot of time managing and understanding the Joomla ACL system. Set the permissions easily via the clickable permission grid that provides a great single page overview of all ACL settings across your website. Via the reset button you can select between Revert Permissions and Clear Permissions. |
| HTML 2 Articles | php-web-design.com | HTML 2 Articles will import the content from HTML pages to Joomla almost instantly. Each individual HTML page creates a new Joomla article. The new article is saved to your Joomla article manager and can be used exactly as a normal article. |
| HD-Custom CSS | hyde-design.co.uk |
A simple module that allows you to style pages individually from the rest of the site. Just as the Custom HTML module allows you to insert HTML on a specific page, the Custom CSS module allows you override styles for a specific page. |
| MijoShop | mijosoft.com | MijoShop is a powerful shopping cart component based on popular OpenCart e-commerce solution. Get MijoShop with 13% discount for until 26/10/2012 - coupon code: mijoshop13 |