# Admin menu feature: view installed plugins

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-menu-feature-view-installed-plugins/12353>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [2월 1, 2014, 11:37오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-menu-feature-view-installed-plugins/12353 "2014-02-01T11:37:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![michaeld](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/michaeld/32/1594_2.png) [@michaeld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/michaeld)\
**Post date:** [2월 1, 2014, 11:37오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-menu-feature-view-installed-plugins/12353/1 "2014-02-01T11:37:22Z")

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How about a feature in the admin menu that lists the active plugins and their versions?

I also propose a header for plugins, [like Wordpress has](http://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_a_Plugin#Standard_Plugin_Information), where meta information can be stored.

And since I don’t see a good reason to divert from an already existing de-facto standard, I propose the following lines to be prepended to plugin.rb:

```
 # Plugin Name: Name Of The Plugin
# Plugin URI: http://URI_Of_Page_Describing_Plugin_and_Updates
# Description: A brief description of the Plugin.
# Version: The Plugin's Version Number, e.g.: 1.0
# Author: Name Of The Plugin Author
# Author URI: http://URI_Of_The_Plugin_Author
# License: A "Slug" license name e.g. GPL2

```

Alternatively, a file called `pluginmeta.yml` could be stored next to `plugin.rb`

Any thoughts?

EDIT: I do see a reason to _extend_ an existing standard. Let’s introduce a `Minimum Discourse Version` field as well, which indicates the minimum Discourse version the plugin requires.

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