# About the Plugin category

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-the-plugin-category/12648
**Category:** Plugin
**Created:** [February 12, 2014, 3:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-the-plugin-category/12648 "2014-02-12T03:35:27Z")
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### Author: ![Discourse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/discourse/32/148734_2.png) [@Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Discourse)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2014, 3:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-the-plugin-category/12648/1 "2014-02-12T03:35:28Z")

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A directory of Discourse plugins, both official and third-party.

To post here, use the [Request Access button on the group page](https://meta.discourse.org/groups/plugin_authors) **with a link** to your plugin.

One topic per plugin, please.

> :discourse: Issues or suggestions for #official Discourse plugins can be shared in the #Support, #Contribute > Feature, #Contribute > UX, or #Contribute > Bug categories and tagged with their appropriate tag.
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> Issues with third-party plugins will need to be reported in their respective plugin topic.

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If you have a plugin that should be moved here please flag your post.

**For site owners:**

> [@Install plugins on a self-hosted site](https://meta.discourse.org/t/install-a-plugin/19157/):
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> warning This guide assumes that you have a self-hosted standard installation. We only support the standard method of install here, so these instructions assume you have a [standard install](https://meta.discourse.org/t/142537?silent=true). warning This guide only applies to self-hosted Discourse instances. If you are using a managed hosting service, the available plugins are controlled by your hosting provider. For example, on our hosting [these specific plugins](https://www.discourse.org/plugins) are available by hosting tier. information_source As of mid-2025, [many p…](https://meta.discourse.org/t/373574)

**For developers:**

> [@Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 1 - Create a basic plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/beginners-guide-to-creating-discourse-plugins/30515):
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> Building a plugin in Discourse can be really simple, once you learn a couple of quirks. The goal of this post is to create a skeleton plugin and introduce you to the basics. Your development environment Make sure you have a development environment of Discourse running on your computer. I recommend you use [the appropriate setup guide](https://meta.discourse.org/tag/dev-install) and come back when you’re done. plugin.rbtada Use [GitHub - discourse/discourse-plugin-skeleton: Template for Discourse plugins · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-plugin-skeleton) to create a complete di…

> [@Rails plugin generator](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rails-plugin-generator/95907):
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> warning Deprecated, use [GitHub - discourse/discourse-plugin-skeleton: Template for Discourse plugins · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-plugin-skeleton) instead please. This is a dev feature for our beloved plugin authors. With this commit [DEV: rails generator to create plugin skeleton (#6332) · discourse/discourse@ef36fdf · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/ef36fdfb64a06b91503b5ad270daebda96d00201) you can now use rails generators to create plugins: rails g plugin --help rails g plugin DiscourseRacoon This will create a complete discourse plugin skeleton in your plugins directory: rails g plugin…

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