Magento Extension Reviews

Stores that have large numbers of out-of-stock products may not want these appearing before in-stock products. This straightforward extension allows sorting out-of-stock products to the end of category pages. Stock-based sorting is enabled or disabled per-store, and can't be configured for individual categories.

The extension uses an observer to add an extra sort clause to product collections. This will happen for every frontend collection load, not just the ones for category and search result pages, so be aware of this if product collections are used for any custom functionality.

In a multi-store Magento installation, customers may want to sign up to the newsletter using the same email address across multiple stores. Magento's built-in newsletter subscription feature doesn't fully handle this situation - customers can only by subscribed in one store at any given time. This extension allows customers to subscribe in each store individually.

Magento's standard onepage checkout groups fields into a series of steps which the customer needs to complete before proceeding on to the next step, and being shown the next group of fields. This means that potential customers can't see what information they'll need to fill out ahead of time, and aren't aware exactly how far through the checkout process they really are.

This extension allows registered customers to:

• Delete their account.
• Cancel their unpaid order.

Normally, when a customer wants to delete their account, they would need to contact custom service so that they can action the request from the Admin Panel. With this extension, logged in customers are provided with a self-service means of deleting their account from within the customer account interface. As a precaution, they will need to provide their password prior to account deletion.

The recent Magento vulnerabilities (SUPEE-5944 and SUPEE-5344) have highlighted the need to make sure your website is up-to-date and has the latest patches applied. To that end, Phillip Jackson has created the Applied Patches extension, which will display a list of patches which have been applied next to the Magento version number in the admin panel footer.

There are times when you'll want Magento to display a custom stock status. For example, maybe one or more products are available in limited or fixed quantities, and you want to show a message that helps incentivize the user to make a purchase.

This simple extension creates an observer to watch for items added to a customer's wish list and notifies the administrator. It's great that the extension can be completely disabled from the admin panel, without having to dive into code, and that it doesn't try to do too much. It is easy to imagine receiving emails every time someone adds a product to their wishlist would become unruly on large sites, but if you're just starting out it could be an easier alternative to setting up logging of this kind of action. Hopefully "wishlist" is spelled correctly in the actual notifications!