Installing Plugins

Plugins Manager

In Plover's main window under the Tools dropdown menu, select "Plugins Manager". Scroll down to find the plugin you want to install, select it, and click the "Install/Update" button.

Make sure to restart Plover afterwards by pressing the "Restart" button. You can also restart Plover in the main window by opening the File dropdown menu, and clicking Quit Plover, or right clicking the Plover icon in your system tray and selecting Quit Plover.

Note that just closing the main window of Plover will not quit the application.

Manually Installing Plugins

Some plugins are not yet in the registry and do in the show up in the plugins manager list. It is still possible to manually install plugins.

Compatible Versions

Ensure you are running Plover 4.x -- version 3 and below do not include plugin support.

Instruction

• Run the following command (refer to Invoke Plover from the command line for more details)

  plover -s plover_plugins install plover-stenograph-usb
  

  where "plover-stenograph-usb" is replaced with the name of the plugin package you'd like to install. You can verify this name on PyPi.

  • If the plugin is only available in a git repository (for example GitHub), type

    plover -s plover_plugins install git+https://github.com/user/repo
    

    instead, where https://github.com/user/repo refers to the git URL.

    Note: https://github.com/user/repo.git is incorrect; make sure it is https://github.com/user/repo.

• Hopefully you'll see a message that says "Successfully installed" followed by a number of packages, ending with your plugin.

• Restart Plover for changes to take effect.