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    api/index.rst
    events/index.rst
+   plugins/index.rst
 
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+.. _sec-plugins:
+
+#####################
+Plugins Documentation
+#####################
+
+.. contents::
+
+Starting with OctoPrint 1.2.0, there's now a plugin system in place which allows to individually
+extend OctoPrint's functionality.
+
+Right now plugins can be used to extend OctoPrint's settings dialog, to execute specific tasks on server startup and
+shutdown or to provide custom (API) endpoints with special functionality. More plugin types are planned for the future.
+
+.. _sec-plugins-installation:
+
+Installing Plugins
+==================
+
+Plugins can be installed either by unpacking them into one of the configured plugin folders (regularly those are
+``<octoprint-root>/plugins`` and ``~/.octoprint/plugins`` or by installing them as regular python modules via ``pip``.
+Please refer to the documentation of the plugin for installations instructions.
+
+The latter is the more common case since all currently published plugins not bundled with OctoPrint can and should be installed
+this way.
+
+For a plugin available on the Python Package Index (PyPi), the process is as simple as issuing a
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+   pip install <plugin_name>
+
+For plugins not available on PyPi, you'll have to give ``pip`` an URL from which to install the package (e.g. the URL to
+a ZIP file of the current master branch of a Github repository hosting a plugin, or even a ``git+https`` URL), example:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+   pip install https://github.com/OctoPrint/OctoPrint-Growl/archive/master.zip
+
+See `the pip install documentation <http://pip.readthedocs.org/en/latest/reference/pip_install.html>`_ for what URL
+types are possible.
+
+.. _sec-plugins-available:
+
+Available Plugins
+=================
+
+Currently there's no such thing as a centralized plugin repository for available plugins.
+
+Plugins may be found in the lists provided in `the OctoPrint wiki <https://github.com/foosel/OctoPrint/wiki#plugins>`_
+and on the `OctoPrint organization Github page <https://github.com/OctoPrint>`_.
+
+.. _sec-plugins-developing:
+
+Developing Plugins
+==================
+
+.. todo::
+
+   A section on how to develop plugins yourself, including a tutorial creating an exemplatory plugin as well as
+   a documentation of the plugin API, will be added in the near future.