You’ve probably have seen posts about most essential plugins for various CMS software but mostly bloggers pay their attention to WordPress. We think that it is quite unfair because Joomla! is also superb software which has thousands fans all over the web. Anyways, we are glad to present you our small collection of essential Joomla extensions which you need to install first at your website. Hope you’ll find these useful and install it right after reading our post.
Akeeba Backup
Akeeba Backup aka Joomla Pack is an extension that creates a backup of your website (files and database). So, you can easily restore all your website data on another Joomla-friendly web server withour any problems. It is very useful and will protect your web project from losing some important data related with unexpected software and hosting issues.

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Xmap
Xmap is very SEO-friendly extension that creates XML sitemaps compatible with Google, Yahoo, Bing and other popular search engines. Cache system is very helpful for high traffic websites because creates sitemaps almost seamlessly. The Xmap is useful for submitting your sitemap to Google Sitemaps and adding it to your robots.txt file.

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Fox Contact Form
Having powerful and reliable feedback component on your Joomla website is one of the prioreties that you can’t neglect. So here is a contact form that has all useful features including antispam system, Captcha, multilanguage, log text files, multiple recipients and custom fields and upload capabilities.

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Sh404sef
This is very first extension that you should isntall at your Joomla website. Sh404sef creates search engine friendly URLs, gives you full control of meta tags, title tags, description, keywords, on every single page etc.

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Quick Google Search Module
This componen adds Google Search to your Joomla site. The search results are displayed at your Joomla page and due to its simple design and great perfomance you won’t have any problems in installing it.

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