# What are the plugins enabled on meta.discourse.org?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-are-the-plugins-enabled-on-meta-discourse-org/114706
**Category:** Site feedback
**Created:** [April 10, 2019, 10:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-are-the-plugins-enabled-on-meta-discourse-org/114706 "2019-04-10T22:43:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@sat](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sat)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2019, 10:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-are-the-plugins-enabled-on-meta-discourse-org/114706/1 "2019-04-10T22:43:55Z")
I’m curious to know what are the plugins enabled on [meta.discourse.org](http://meta.discourse.org), thanks!
I’m able to guess only two plugins. ☹
1. [Sitemap](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-sitemap)
2. [Solved](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-solved)
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### Author:  [@nexo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nexo)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2019, 11:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-are-the-plugins-enabled-on-meta-discourse-org/114706/2 "2019-04-10T23:08:55Z")
It’s vanilla Discourse, just the official plugins every Discourse platform arrives with in the box.
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### Author:  [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2019, 11:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-are-the-plugins-enabled-on-meta-discourse-org/114706/3 "2019-04-10T23:28:27Z")
We also have some theme components enabled, and occasionally test new ones on Meta.
Is there a specific reason you’re asking? Functionality you’re looking to replicate?
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### Author:  [@sat](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sat)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2019, 12:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-are-the-plugins-enabled-on-meta-discourse-org/114706/4 "2019-04-11T00:09:27Z")
@awesomerobot Yes, I liked all the features which are available on this site so trying to replicate.
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### Author:  [@sat](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sat)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2019, 9:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-are-the-plugins-enabled-on-meta-discourse-org/114706/5 "2019-04-11T21:29:10Z")
any help on this from official staff? If this info is not sharable then please let me know, will not bother on this.
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2019, 9:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-are-the-plugins-enabled-on-meta-discourse-org/114706/6 "2019-04-11T21:44:34Z")
99% of the user facing features here are just vanilla Discourse.
For the user facing changes you see here:
- discourse-solved
- discourse-cakeday
- discourse-saved-searches
- discourse-checklist
- discourse-yearly-review
- discourse-spoiler-alert
- discourse-github
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### Author:  [@sat](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sat)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2019, 9:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-are-the-plugins-enabled-on-meta-discourse-org/114706/7 "2019-04-11T21:51:13Z")
Thank you @Falco ! I will try all those plugins.
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2019, 2:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-are-the-plugins-enabled-on-meta-discourse-org/114706/8 "2019-04-26T14:23:41Z")
You should not blindly 🙈 add plugins.
You should start with a vanilla install and if you need a feature provided by one of these plugins, you should review them and only then install them.
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2019, 2:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-are-the-plugins-enabled-on-meta-discourse-org/114706/9 "2019-04-26T14:27:08Z")
> [@zogstrip](#):
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> You should start with a vanilla install and only if you need a feature provided by one of these plugins, you should review them and only then install them.
100x this. Several times now I’ve been asked to troubleshoot instances where the root cause were plugins which had been installed **but never used**.
Aside from creating crazy UI clutter, when you rebuild there’s always the risk that a change hasn’t been reflected/supported within a plugin. When that happens a rebuild may fail, or lead to unpredictable behavior.
In one of those instances they had easily ~20 plugins in app.yml and were **only using two**.
Talk about taking unnecessary risks 🤪
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### Author:  [@sat](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sat)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2019, 4:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-are-the-plugins-enabled-on-meta-discourse-org/114706/10 "2019-04-26T16:13:18Z")
True, I installed plugins only which are required and used. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Heather\_Dudley](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Heather_Dudley)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2019, 12:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-are-the-plugins-enabled-on-meta-discourse-org/114706/11 "2019-08-07T00:33:41Z")
What’s the plug in use for theme switching in the hamburger menu, here:
I quite like that one. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Dannii](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Dannii)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2019, 12:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-are-the-plugins-enabled-on-meta-discourse-org/114706/12 "2019-08-07T00:38:25Z")
> [@Hamburger Theme Selector](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hamburger-theme-selector/61210):
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> warning This theme component is #end-of-life and is no longer supported This theme component no longer works in recent versions of Discourse. Please see [Sidebar Theme Toggle](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sidebar-theme-toggle/242802) as an alternative. discourse2Summary Hamburger Theme Selector adds a theme selector in the hamburger menu provided there is more than 1 user selectable theme. This selector works with both logged-on users and anonymous users.hammer_and_wrenchRepository Link [https://github.com/discourse/discourse-ham…](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-hamburger-theme-selector)
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### Author:  [@Heather\_Dudley](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Heather_Dudley)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2019, 12:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-are-the-plugins-enabled-on-meta-discourse-org/114706/13 "2019-08-07T00:40:31Z")
Perfect! That’s even better. I have to get sysadmin help for plugins, but theme components I can DO! I had looked in there, but I never quite found it.