# Plugins not loading. What am I missing?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugins-not-loading-what-am-i-missing/62885
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [May 17, 2017, 3:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugins-not-loading-what-am-i-missing/62885 "2017-05-17T15:55:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@rohmann](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rohmann)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2017, 3:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugins-not-loading-what-am-i-missing/62885/1 "2017-05-17T15:55:09Z")
I’m attempting to write a custom plugin. I’ve got a development environment setup with vagrant. I’ve created my own plugin
```plaintext
# name: my-plugin
# about: Customizations
# version: 0.0.1
# authors: Alex
```
I’ve also installed a couple official plugins. Although the plugin names appear on the admin plugin screen, their javascript isn’t loading - even for the official ones. No connectors are being loaded through their respective outlets.
I’ve tried clearing `tmp` and restarting Rails with: `rm -rf tmp; bundle exec rails s -b 0.0.0.0`
Any thoughts on what I’m missing or doing wrong here?
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### Author:  [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2017, 4:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugins-not-loading-what-am-i-missing/62885/2 "2017-05-17T16:00:48Z")
I have never seen this before. Are there any errors in your development console? Perhaps something is breaking the Javascript for the application?
What plugins are you trying?
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### Author:  [@rohmann](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rohmann)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2017, 4:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugins-not-loading-what-am-i-missing/62885/3 "2017-05-17T16:40:55Z")
Thank you for the quick reply! No errors in the rails console or the javascript console. At first I had these plugins:
- `discourse-unhandled-tagger`
- `discourse-presence`
I just installed `discourse-canned-replies` and it’s working nicely.
The other two don’t seem to be loading templates into connectors. For example, I don’t see the “Unhandled / Handled” button that should be placed in the footer.
Specifically, the connector I’m trying to access is `topic-list-after-title`, by creating this file:
`assets/javascripts/discourse/templates/connectors/topic-list-after-title/presence.hbs`
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### Author:  [@rohmann](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rohmann)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2017, 10:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugins-not-loading-what-am-i-missing/62885/4 "2017-05-17T22:07:44Z")
Alrighty, false alarm on the plugins not working… I don’t think I had them setup right.
I was having some issues with getting the `topic-list-after-title` connector to work until I stumbled upon this:
> [@What is the difference between raw.hbs handlerbar files and only .hbs handlerbar files?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-the-difference-between-raw-hbs-handlerbar-files-and-only-hbs-handlerbar-files/58565):
>
> I noticied that few plugin outlet like topic-list-after-title require raw.hbs file while other require only hbs file. I did search in the handlebars documentation, but I could see anything as raw hbs file. I checked in the discourse code, plugin outlet like topic-list-after-title are defined as {{raw-plugin-outlet name="topic-list-after-title"}} while other plugins are defined as {{plugin-outlet name="composer-fields-below" args=(hash model=model)}} Q1. Is there any reason why some plugin…
Apparently you need to name the file `*.raw.hbs` to use raw outlets.
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### Author:  [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2017, 2:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugins-not-loading-what-am-i-missing/62885/5 "2017-05-18T14:58:06Z")