18 docs tagged with "plugins development"

Create and register hooks in Strapi plugins to let other plugins add personalized behavior to your application.

Extend and customize the Strapi admin panel by injecting React components into predefined or custom injection zones.

Provide translations for your Strapi plugin's admin panel interface using registerTrads and react-intl.

Add menu links, create settings sections, and configure settings links for your Strapi plugin in the admin panel.

The Admin Panel API exposes register, bootstrap, and registerTrads hooks to inject React components and translations into Strapi's UI. Menu, settings, injection zone, reducer, and hook APIs let plugins add navigation, configuration panels, or custom actions.

The Content Manager APIs reference lists the APIs available to plugins for adding actions and options to the Content Manager List view and Edit view.

Generation introduction about Strapi plugins development

Learn how to migrate your Strapi plugins and applications to not use the `helper-plugin` package.

In Strapi 5, the `helper-plugin` is removed. A whole migration reference is available for plugin developers, and codemods will automatically handle some changes.

Learn how to store and access data from a Strapi plugin

In Strapi 5, the lockIcon property is replaced by licenseOnly, which affects how the addMenuLink(), addSettingsLink(), and addSettingsLinks() methods from the Admin Panel API work.

Learn how to use the Plugin SDK to build and publish a Strapi plugin

Reference documentation for Strapi's Plugin SDK commands

Learn more about the structure of a Strapi plugin

Existing plugins can be overriden by placing code in /src/extensions or using global register/bootstrap hooks. Instructions in this documentation cover reshaping plugin content-type schemas or server logic — altough upstream updates may break extensions.

The present page is intended to be used as a short summary of everything to consider if you are a plugin developer upgrading your plugin from Strapi v4 to Strapi 5. The page quickly describes the changes affecting plugins and links to additional resources where necessary.

Add custom reducers, read state, dispatch actions, and subscribe to changes in Strapi's admin panel Redux store from your plugin.

Learn more about TypeScript usage with Strapi 5