Plug-in is  Catfish CMS 3.X version of the beginning of the new features that can  make your site becomes very flexible, you can according to their own  ideas to expand the site features. And it all goes  with the simple principle that you can easily develop a plug-in and  install it on your own site to make your site look different. This is really an exciting thing!

In this chapter,  we hope you will have a general understanding of the plug-in, the next  chapter we will start the specific plug-in is how to produce it.

Let us first look at the lovely plug-ins：

We first enter  the system background, then you will find the left side of the directory  more than an "extension", see no, click on the expansion, we will find  "Extended" below a "plug-in" button.

We click on the "plug-in"  on the right will appear on the list of all plug-ins, the system comes  with a bulletin plug-in, this plug-in allows you to publish your site  home page announcement information. This is also an example plug-in, and you can read the announcement plug-in code to learn how to make your own plug-in.

How to start the plug-in?

You just need to  find the "start" in the far right of the list of plug-ins, then click  with the mouse and wait for the plugin to start.

Home top bulletin board came out, but there is no announcement of the content, how to get it?

Do not worry, let us continue：

When you open the "announcement" plugin, and then click "plug-in" button or refresh the page, you find what?

See not, we open the bulletin plug-in now become a name is "announcement" button.

Okay, let's click this button to see what happens.

Haha, on the  right out as shown above the contents of the bulletin input box, we can  enter the contents of the announcement, and then press Save on it.

Save the  contents of the announcement, we then refresh the home page to see, is  not the content you just enter the announcement has been displayed on  the home page.

Plug-ins have been introduced over, the next chapter we will begin to learn how to make plug-ins.

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