Extensions - which are you using?

[jpenguin]

Contao's extension page isn't exactly easy to navigate ^-^; As a newbie I'm curious to know which are the more popular, worth checking out extensions? What are you currently using on the live websites and how useful you think it is?

[Ruud]

The default page is ordered by popularity, you can also arrange by ranking. So using the popularity default ordering gives you a pretty good idea.

I'm always using:
Page images (page_images)
http://www.contao.org/extension-list/vi ... mages.html
Allows you to add image(s) to page(s).

Ce-access (ce-access)
http://www.contao.org/extension-list/vi ... ccess.html
Allows you to limit users from accessing certain content elements.

Google analytics (googleanalytics)
http://www.contao.org/extension-list/vi ... ytics.html
This extension offers an easy way to include the tracking code for Google Analytics.

Used when needed:
Catalog (catalog)
http://www.contao.org/extension-list/view/catalog.html
Define multiple unique catalogs, custom field types and various front-end display formatting.

Isotope (isotope)
http://www.contao.org/extension-list/view/isotope.html

Change language (changelanguage)
http://www.contao.org/extension-list/vi ... guage.html
Allow the visitor to switch between different languages of a page.
Isotope eCommerce is a totally integrated shop system designed to work exclusively with Contao.

[pmmueller]

I try to only use extensions I need for that particuluar site. However, small but useful enhancements for every site are:

[BackupDB]
You can simply Backup the entire database with one mouseclick. The backup comes as download file to save outside of your webserver, in example on your home PC.

[easy_themes]
Saves a lot of clicks using the theme-backend-modules stylesheets, modules and page layout. I use it as DOM Inject, so I see the icons in the backend-navigation, even if I only have one theme.

I also really like [boxes], which makes it really easy to create a box of content and re-use it on different pages.

Peter

[mechaflash]

For my current project (quite large) I'll be using: (a *** indicates something I'd use for every site)

Autoregistration (does not require an admin to approve member account registrations)
avatar ( <( _' o'_)=|===> )
***BackupDB
banner (banner-click tracking)
calendar_ical (haven't played w/it yet)
***ce_startstop (adds start-stop to elements)
Content_Popups (embed webpages, super cool XD)
***csseditor (for full-page css editing instead of the backend GUI type)
***easy_themes
FacebookShareButton (stripped it and used it for its code XD)
fastedit (front-end editing)
***Favicon (browser URL icon)
quickpoll
***recaptcha (can be used for authentication for registration and comments... maybe even more uses)
tags (tag-cloud type searching)
tags_news (tag-cloud type searching for news items)
twitter (stripped it and used for its code)
twitter_search (twitter-feeds)
visitors (stat tracker)
zedseries_* (full website backup and/or relocation - haven't used yet)

now brb... have to uncramp my fingers

[jpenguin]

Lot of interesting extensions. Thank you! A few I'm curious about

Page Images - What's the different between using this and adding image content?

FacebookShareButton - better than the built-in pdf/facebook/twitter?

fastedit looks like something I'll have to check out - quick :D

[mechaflash]

FacebookShareButton - better than the built-in pdf/facebook/twitter?

The built-in pdf/print/facebook/twitter feature is attached to Articles (articles.tpl). With the FacebookShareButton you, build it as a module and attach it wherever you want =D. It has a graphic that comes w/it, but I replaced the graphic w/my own and use it as my homepage share button. I use the built in syndication as well for individual news articles however, but still changed the graphic for that via templates =P.

I'm not a fan of standard =/

[DyaGa]

Extensions that is by default in my projects:

backend_allicon
replace Contao allicon with custom

cacheicon
add a nice icon for cached page in Site structure

clearlog
adds ability to clear system log in Maintenance section

folderurl
makes page alias like http://site.com/services/development.html

folderurl-regen
it's nice alias update helper for folderurl extension

nomootools
because of using jQuery

urlcleaner
Help make news links more friendly

z_fmdcategory
add categorization for BE modules

compression-api, cssMinimizer, DeanEdwardsPacker
for css and js minimization

Also, in some projects I'm using this extensions:

changelanguage, newslanguage
in multi language sites

catalog, taxonomy,
when needed catalog in site

includes
allows you to represent any content element as module

meta_editor
for editing meta data

pageimage, newsgallery, news_teaser_rte, Redirect4ward