28th September 2019 at 8:30am
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) |
| platform | New in v5.4.0 (optional) Set this field to node to restrict the plugin to only be loaded on the server (this is accomplished by suppressing such plugins from the various save templates) |