Don't leave home without it. But do yourself a favor and "donate" the $20 the developer ask for the premium plugins. They are worth every penny. JCE allows you, among other things, to insert pictures (resizing, rotating and creating thumbnails in the process), videos, snippets, templates and tooltips. In addition, JCE "reads" the Joomla content and facilitates creating links to other pages in your website.

JCE is definitely a must have.

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JoomlaPack is a very nifty component for Joomla that allows you to backup your files and database easily from the Joomla administration. What's more, for those that don't have a good Cpanel to work with, and therefore no built in backup features, JoomlaPack is a great solution that can save hours of work otherwise lost to bad data, bad disks or bad programming (mine). JoomlaPack even allows you to create a complete backup complete with installer, so you can move your site to a different server and restore it the same way you install a fresh copy of Joomla.

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This is an awsome file management utility that works from within Joomla or stand alone. If your site does not have Cpanel/whm or you need to frequently upload or move files to and from the server, this is a very powerful and handy solution.

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Wow, this component can search and replace practically every string in your Joomla website. From commonly mispelled words to custom replace tags to make links and classes entry easier, ReReplacer does it all and does it well. I wish I could show you how it fixed my spelling, but ReReplacer would find it and correct it.

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Easy template is a template and snippet manager component. It can insert any number of snippets into your editor easily and reliably. Since many Joomla typographical treatments are hard to remember or difficult to insert for many people, I consider this a must have. Even for expert users it is a nice addition that will help managing your snippets.

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MosModule is a very nice plugin for Joomla that allows you, among many other things, to place modules in your content by module title, content in content, code in content and a score of other useful things. It's a great Swiss Army Knife.

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I love this plugin. It is by far the best and quickest typography plugin for Joomla. Load Xtypo in your Joomla site and you suddently have drop caps, floating blockquotes, round cornered boxes and other nice elements to spice up your site with.

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