Installing plugins

Thanks to our developer community, the Kirby ecosystem has a large number of free and paid plugins, that extend the functionality of Kirby. There are also several official Kirby plugins maintained by the Kirby team.

Once you have found one or more plugins that meet your needs, you will need to install them. Some plugins also require additional configuration options or some setup. All this information can be found in the documentation of the respective plugin.

There are usually four ways to install a plugin, which we will briefly describe here.

Download the plugin via the download link and unzip. Then put the unzipped folder into the /site/plugins/ folder of your Kirby project. If the plugins folder does not exist yet, create it first. The resulting folder structure should look like this:

site
- plugins
  - pluginname
    composer.json
    index.php
    index.js
    README.md
    …

There may be more files and folders in the downloaded plugin folder, or some of the files/folders may not be present, it depends on the plugin.

Note that some plugins may not support all installation types, so always consult their documentation. This may apply in particular to some paid plugins that are not publicly available and for which you may only receive a download link after purchase.