Plugins are stored as tiddlers with the following fields:
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| author | (optional) Author of plugin |
| dependents | List of dependencies: plugins that should be installed in order for this one to work |
| description | Description of plugin |
| list | Names of exposed plugin information tiddlers (see below) |
| name | Brief name of the plugin |
| plugin-priority | (optional) Numerical priority (higher numbers install later, the core plugin has a priority of zero |
| plugin-type | Generally plugin, language or theme; see PluginMechanism for details |
| parent-plugin | (optional) Introduced in v5.1.22 Title of the plugin under which this plugin should be displayed as a sub-plugin in the control panel plugin chooser |
| source | (optional) Source URL of plugin |
| text | JSON encoding of the list of tiddlers comprising the plugin |
| title | Title of plugin |
| type | Must be application/json |
| version | (optional) Version string (should conform to SemanticVersioning convention) |