About the Plugin category

[Discourse]

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

To post here, use the Request Access button on the group page with a link to your plugin.

One topic per plugin, please.

Issues or suggestions for official Discourse plugins can be shared in the support, feature, ux, or bug categories and tagged with their appropriate tag.

Issues with third-party plugins will need to be reported in their respective plugin topic.

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For site owners:

Install plugins on a self-hosted site

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. 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 are available by hosting tier. In this tutorial, we’ll install the Discours…

For developers:

Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 1 - Create a basic plugin

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 and come back when you’re done. plugin.rb Use GitHub - discourse/discourse-plugin-skeleton: Template for Discourse plugins to create a complete discourse…

Rails plugin generator

Deprecated, use GitHub - discourse/discourse-plugin-skeleton: Template for Discourse plugins 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 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 Discours…