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Created by Jonathan Nolen, last updated by SarahA on Jun 25, 2007 1 minute read

Getting Started With Plugins

This is a quick guide to getting off the ground when starting a new plugin for Confluence.

The Guide

Building and Deploying Confluence has been broken into a series of steps.

Initial development environment setup
Building and Deploying Confluence in IDEA
- Setup Confluence Source Code For Development
- Creating an IDEA project with a Confluence distribution
Building and Deploying Plugins in IDEA
- Setting up a new Confluence plugin
- Working on an existing Confluence plugin
Packaging and releasing a plugin

Extra Information

Confluence Internals

Confluence Plugin Guide

Installing and Configuring Plugins manually
Installing and Configuring Plugins using the Plugin Repository
Installing plugins overview
Single Sign-on
Writing Confluence Plugins
- Accessing Confluence Components From Plugin Modules
- Confluence Plugin Module Types
  - Code Formatting Plugins — Code formatting plugin modules allow you to add new languages to the {code} macro.
  - Component Plugins
  - Decorator Plugins — Decorator plugin modules allow you to add decorators without using a Theme Plugin http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Theme+Plugins.
  - Downloadable Plugin Resources
  - Editor Plugins — Editor plugin modules allow you to implement Wysiwyg editors for editing Confluence pages.
  - Event Listener Plugins
  - Extractor Plugins — Extractor plugins allow you to hook into the mechanism by which Confluence populates its search index.
  - Job Plugins
  - Language Pack Plugins
  - Lifecycle Plugins — Lifecycle plugins allow you to perform tasks on application startup and shutdown
  - Macro Plugins
  - RPC Plugins
  - Servlet Plugins
  - Spring Component Plugins
  - StateAware
  - Theme Plugins
  - Trigger Plugins
  - User Macro Plugins
  - Velocity Context Plugins
  - Web UI Plugins — Web UI plugin modules allow you to insert links, tabs and sections of links into the Confluence web interface
  - Workflow Plugins
  - XWork-WebWork Plugins
- Plugin Self-Configuration

Customise Confluence Page Exports

Modify the style or content of the following page exports:

Remote API

Remote API Specification

Resources

The Confluence Confluence Developer FAQ

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