# Beginner's Guide to Creating Discourse Plugins

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/beginners-guide-to-creating-discourse-plugins/42577
**Category:** Blog
**Created:** [April 14, 2016, 9:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/beginners-guide-to-creating-discourse-plugins/42577 "2016-04-14T21:55:42Z")
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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2016, 9:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/beginners-guide-to-creating-discourse-plugins/42577/1 "2016-04-14T21:55:42Z")

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Originally published at: [Beginner’s Guide to Creating Discourse Plugins](https://blog.discourse.org/2016/04/beginners-guide-to-creating-discourse-plugins/)  
   
Part of our important work with Rails Girls in 2014 and 2015 was not just to mentor and encourage new developers, but also evolve Discourse into a platform that’s generally friendly and easy for developers to build on. We’ll be working with the Rails Girls project again in 2016, and this year will be our…