# Plugin admin section

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-admin-section/14514>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** rfc, spec\
**Created:** [April 7, 2014, 1:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-admin-section/14514 "2014-04-07T01:20:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![cpradio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cpradio/32/4970_2.png) [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2017, 3:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-admin-section/14514/10 "2017-06-14T15:50:01Z")

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> [@RBoy](#):
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> why not make an Install plugin button which retrieves from the list of official plugins and then automatically updates the app.yml file and triggers a rebuild

IIRC, the app.yml is outside of the container and thus not directly accessible to Discourse. The Discourse software itself is sandboxed in the docker container and therefore cannot alter the app.yml in any way.

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