# Plugin Development
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/plugin-development/1568
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [March 31, 2019, 12:57am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/plugin-development/1568 "2019-03-31T00:57:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@justinmadison](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/justinmadison)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2019, 12:57am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/plugin-development/1568/1 "2019-03-31T00:57:10Z")
Is there any documentation on how to use the current ParaView CMake plugin macros when developing a plugin? There are several repos that I can find as examples for plugin development but they all seem to use the older style plugin CMake macro system. I hate to learn the old way. I feel certain there were good reasons to refactor into the newer system.
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### Author:  [@cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/cory.quammen)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2019, 1:01pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/plugin-development/1568/2 "2019-03-31T13:01:08Z")
I’m think @ben.boeckel has plans to update the plugin documentation.
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### Author:  [@ben.boeckel](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/ben.boeckel)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2019, 1:30pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/plugin-development/1568/3 "2019-04-03T13:30:17Z")
I’ve started porting the [Plugin How-To](https://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/Plugin_HowTo) into in-tree documentation that will appear as part of the nightly Doxygen documentation.
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2019, 3:57pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/plugin-development/1568/4 "2019-06-10T15:57:24Z")
Any news on that @ben.boeckel ?
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### Author:  [@utkarsh.ayachit](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/utkarsh.ayachit)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2019, 4:28pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/plugin-development/1568/5 "2019-06-10T16:28:49Z")
I believe it’s already available here: [https://kitware.github.io/paraview-docs/nightly/cxx/](https://kitware.github.io/paraview-docs/nightly/cxx/)
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2019, 4:33pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/plugin-development/1568/6 "2019-06-10T16:33:02Z")
Nice !
tbh I find the markdown formatted version more easy to read. It also contains images that are not present in the doxygen.
[https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/blob/master/Utilities/Doxygen/pages/PluginHowto.md](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/blob/master/Utilities/Doxygen/pages/PluginHowto.md)
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### Author:  [@ben.boeckel](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/ben.boeckel)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2019, 3:55pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/plugin-development/1568/7 "2019-06-11T15:55:21Z")
Hmm. Seems the Doxygen generation needs to make the images available too. I don’t have the time to work on it right away and unlikely before rc1 either.