Documentation for JIRA 4.0. Documentation for other versions of JIRA is available too.

This page has been deprecated in favour of Managing JIRA's Plugins.

Installing plugins in JIRA is easy.

Once you have downloaded or created your plugin jar, follow these steps:

  1. Shut down JIRA
  2. copy '$MY_COOL_PLUGIN.jar' into '.../atlassian-jira/WEB-INF/lib/'
  3. Start up JIRA.
  4. Go to 'Administration > Plugins' and confirm that $MY_COOL_PLUGIN is listed and enabled.
  5. Enjoy!
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