Plugins

Plugins

Plugins are a powerful way to extend XWiki's intrinsic features. Actually lots of the XWiki features you can see are brought by plugins bundled with the XWiki distributions.

Using a Plugin

First check the Code Zone to find a Plugin you'd like to use. You'll then copy its JAR (Plugins are bundled as JARs) into your XWiki installation: drop it in XWiki WAR's WEB-INF/lib directory. You'll then need to restart XWiki for it to take effect. Please note that this is an administrative task so you'll want to ask your wiki admin for help in doing this.

Developing a Plugin

Check the plugin development tutorial.