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- Community plugin
description: Learn how to extend Obsidian with plugins built by the community.
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Learn how to extend Obsidian with plugins built by the community. Use plugins to adapt Obsidian to fit your specific needs, such as support for additional file formats or integrating with a third-party service.
Community plugins run third-party code on your behalf that could potentially do harm. To learn more about what the Obsidian team does to prevent harmful plugins, refer to Plugin security.
Browse community plugins
- Open Settings.
- Select Turn on community plugins. For more information, refer to Restricted Mode.
- Select Browse to list all available community plugins.
Use the text box to filter plugins based on their name, author, and description.
You can also browse available plugins in your browser, by heading to obsidian.md/plugins.
Install a community plugin
To install a community plugin, you must first turn off Restricted Mode.
- Open Settings.
- In the side menu, select Community plugins.
- Select Browse to explore available community plugins.
- Select the plugin you want to install.
- Select Install.
To use an installed plugin, you need to enable it.
Enable a community plugin
Either select Enable directly after installing it, or enable it from the list of Community plugins under Settings → Community plugins → Installed plugins.
Update plugins
For security purposes, community plugins don't update automatically. You can either update all plugins at once, or update individual plugins.
To update all your plugins:
- Open Settings.
- Under Community plugins → Current plugins, select Check for updates.
- If updates are available, select Update all.
To update an individual plugin:
- Open Settings.
- Under Community plugins → Current plugins, select Check for updates.
- Under Installed plugins, select Update next to the plugin you want to update.
Uninstall a community plugin
- Open Settings.
- In the side menu, select Community plugins.
- Under Installed plugins, select Uninstall (
). - Select Uninstall again to confirm.
Learn more
Ready to build your own community plugin? Learn how to Build a plugin.