# Improving /admin/plugins

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/improving-admin-plugins/84585>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [April 4, 2018, 4:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improving-admin-plugins/84585 "2018-04-04T16:23:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Stephen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stephen/32/95011_2.png) [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2018, 5:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improving-admin-plugins/84585/20 "2018-04-06T05:58:32Z")

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For one it lets anyone troubleshooting their instance tell immediately whether they have any plugins installed.

Admins who are less familiar won’t know that the term plugin is being used to describe something other than optional code modules.

Usually to troubleshoot we would disable third party plugins, then official. Right now it’s hard to distinguish between something in core and something referenced from [Discourse · GitHub](http://GitHub.com/discourse) in the yml.

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