# Inconsistent plugin settings
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/inconsistent-plugin-settings/381003
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [August 30, 2025, 4:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inconsistent-plugin-settings/381003 "2025-08-30T16:59:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2025, 4:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inconsistent-plugin-settings/381003/1 "2025-08-30T16:59:43Z")
The way plugin settings are accessible seems inconsistent
Some plugins, like Discourse AI, have a “Settings” tab, and some other tabs, and clicking on “AI” in the admin sidebar will give us all the options we need.
Some plugins only have settings, for instance clicking on “Akismet” in the admin sidebar will give us the settings.
But for instance the Calendar plugin will not show the settings if you click it in the admin sitebar, it will only show us the additional configuration.
The same for Fingerprint.
In order to get to the settings for Calendar or Fingerprint, I have to go to “Installed plugins” in the admin sidebar, then scroll down to the plugin I need, and click the Settings button.
I can also manually add `settings` to the URL so I end up at `/admin/plugins/calendar/settings`. But there is no tab for it.
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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2025, 5:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inconsistent-plugin-settings/381003/2 "2025-08-30T17:32:35Z")
I think it also came up here
> [@Calendar plugin option search results don't land at the right place](https://meta.discourse.org/t/calendar-plugin-option-search-results-dont-land-at-the-right-place/379748/8):
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> Yes, the plugin UI for Calendar needs to be overhauled like we have for others like Gamification, Automation, and Chat, the #staff-experience team just hasn’t gotten around to it yet.
> [@Calendar plugin option search results don't land at the right place](https://meta.discourse.org/t/calendar-plugin-option-search-results-dont-land-at-the-right-place/379748/10):
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> Really the fix here is to make Calendar match plugins like AI and Gamification that have the new plugin UI and have the Settings tab in the same place. From our internal topic (t/122601), these are the plugins that still aren’t done:
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### Author:  [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2025, 6:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inconsistent-plugin-settings/381003/3 "2025-08-30T18:26:01Z")
Thanks !
(I did search prior to posting…)
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2025, 6:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inconsistent-plugin-settings/381003/4 "2025-09-16T06:12:29Z")
Yes, Calendar / Events is in a very very very messy state config wise. It is on our list to sort it out.
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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2025, 4:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inconsistent-plugin-settings/381003/6 "2025-09-24T16:54:13Z")
The settings tab for calendar and events was added in [DEV: clean up events settings by SamSaffron · Pull Request #34856 · discourse/discourse · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/34856).
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### Author:  [@martin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/martin)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2025, 4:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inconsistent-plugin-settings/381003/7 "2025-09-25T04:24:19Z")
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### Author:  [@martin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/martin)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2025, 6:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inconsistent-plugin-settings/381003/8 "2025-09-25T06:04:46Z")