# Plugin howto self-announcement
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-howto-self-announcement/76458
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [December 19, 2017, 11:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-howto-self-announcement/76458 "2017-12-19T23:11:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@supermathie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/supermathie)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2017, 11:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-howto-self-announcement/76458/1 "2017-12-19T23:11:13Z")
One of our customer’s sites gave me an idea earlier that was well-received by the team so I’d like to hear what the community thinks of it.
> Do you think it’d be pretty cool if plugins automatically injected a “how to use me” page into a meta topic when enabled? Kind of like what these people are doing:
It’d be very useful if plugins could ‘announce’ themselves like this with a short post like that ⏫ in the forum’s default Meta category (is there one? oh, wait, there isn’t. that’s another discussion).
possible ideas:
- hidden by default on existing sites (that have existed for a certain $duration)
- a note to [@staff](https://meta.discourse.org/groups/staff) explaining these announcements (especially on existing sites) that can be moved into a public place
This would let forum users know about extra 🆒 features that may not be present on other sites and ease the burden on site leaders explaining how these features work.
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### Author:  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2017, 11:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-howto-self-announcement/76458/2 "2017-12-19T23:41:34Z")
I could also see this being useful for core features that you want to highlight as well, which would help to address some of the asks in this feature:
> [@Weekly Discourse Summary?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/weekly-discourse-summary/74881):
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> Hi, it is exciting to see all the developments in Discourse each day. I wonder if anyone else feels overwhelmed by the challenge of keeping up with all that is changing? If so, I wonder if the team might consider - now or in the next six months or so (?) - releasing a weekly/bi-weekly newsletter with the most important updates that have taken place to the Discourse software? This could have multiple benefits: Make it easier for people to focus on using Discourse rather than keeping up with the…
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### Author:  [@joebuhlig](https://meta.discourse.org/u/joebuhlig)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2017, 3:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-howto-self-announcement/76458/3 "2017-12-20T03:06:00Z")
Could this be done by seeding the topic via the plugin? I like the idea quite a bit. But it might already be possible. It may simply take time for folks to get used to seeing them.