Thread: Magento - Recommend Plugins

You shall consider OXID eShop as a proper alternative.

Originally Posted by kermie

You shall consider OXID eShop as a proper alternative.

why?

why?

This might be illuminative although I think most guys did not even give it a trial

[edit]: I am not allowed posting links yet. Google for "active codeline magento alternative oxid". 1st result.

Besides I think most american projects suffer from not knowing legal circumstances in the EU...

Must admit had a look at the front end of a lingerie store using it and it looked good (nothing to do with the lingerie though) would like to get a look at the back end and how easy it is to template

Originally Posted by Fintan

I'm looking at magento and it seems like a decent system out of the box.

However, I'm curious as to what plugins people have used and would recommend?

I thought you have to sell your granny just to use Magento.
Very pricy once you get the version of any use!

Could never get Magento to install on 4 different servers I use so gave up on it.

Originally Posted by neweb

I thought you have to sell your granny just to use Magento.
Very pricy once you get the version of any use!

Could never get Magento to install on 4 different servers I use so gave up on it.

I've been playing with the free version, had it live in 5 minutes, was as easy to install as wordpress.

I highly recommend the fooman speedster and fooman analytics to start. The site i'm working on at the moment also has the Magento blog and Realex payments plugins and i've had no problems with either so far

Standard install comes with all the basics...

Getting help or integration support is a pain with Magento...

Originally Posted by conormcq

I highly recommend the fooman speedster and fooman analytics to start. The site i'm working on at the moment also has the Magento blog and Realex payments plugins and i've had no problems with either so far

Both great plugins in thanks.

Another one I found useful was "Dull_Addressfields" it allows you to edit the customer reg form and get rid of all the US based fields which are not necessary in Ireland. Actually I take that back, it doesnt fix the dreaded Zip/Post code as a required field.