Search, Category, Rating for the extension

Hi a.m.,

I know this have been discussed several times like links below.

https://www.nopcommerce.com/boards/t/19305/search-for-extensions.aspx
https://www.nopcommerce.com/boards/t/21629/search-option-on-nopcommercecom.aspx

However, as we know the extension related pages of nopcommerce.com is still far away from perfect. The search feature you added in last year is a little bit shabby (without search box even on the extension home page, just a link).  Also the categories of extension is fixed to those types like forever.  

NC can only grow up to a better ECommerce platform when there is better third party solution and good extension. Really looking forward to seeing improvements like what we can find from magento connect:

http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect

STAFF PICKS
FEATURED EXTENSIONS
Multi-level category
Search with Paid/Free toggle
Search with Featured, Recent, Popular, Rating... sorting
Better presentation layout for extension page

In the mentioned topics it was suggested to add "search" option (it was not available before). Now we have it but it's not visible much. Sure, textbox should be added to other pages.

Thanks for other suggestions. Agree about them. We also have a lot of other work items for extensions page on our internal official site roadmap

Please check it out now - https://www.nopcommerce.com/extensions-and-themes.aspx

A lot of other changes are coming (free/paid, featured, etc)

a.m. wrote:

Those are great news!! Very important to position nopCommerce platform in a higher level, as commented by wsy.

wsy wrote:

BTW there is a BUG in the Category drop box items are duplicated

And here is one more update. Now prices for third-party plugins are display on the official site. Users can also filter by paid/commercial

1eadameg wrote:
Eduardo, thanks! Fixed

Looks great Andrei !

a.m. wrote:
Tag cloud would be very useful too

a.m. wrote:

That's a very quick improvement, Andrei. Thanks for that. I think the community would be exiting about the coming "featured" / pick-up extension list adding in.

Some small suggestion so far:

1. The search feature, can it be a little bit fuzzy search, rather than exact match? For example, I search "Nop Templates" or "NopTemplates", it doesn't come up with anything.

2. The sorting by adding date might be not enough. Some extensions might be added two years ago. However, it has been improved with lots of new features recently (not only just update to match the NC version). It's not fair to be listed at bottom for those extensions.

3. Still, it would be better if the extension presentation page could have better layout like tabs for F&Q, Documents, Videos, etc...


The last thing may not limited to this thread, so I just opened another thread for it:

https://www.nopcommerce.com/boards/t/30206/nopcommercecom-new-theme-or-redesign.aspx

wsy wrote:
We're still thinking about enabling of full-text for the official site

wsy wrote:
That's why it's "sort by date". Although some really great extensions are moved up periodically (rarely)

wsy wrote:
Thanks. Sure. I'll add it to our roadmap