How to turn on plugin developer mode
Choose Main menu › Object › Plugins › Plugin developer mode. Athanor says "Plugin developer mode is on." and the Plugins submenu gains the developer commands.
Steps
- Open a document.
- Choose Main menu › Object › Plugins › Plugin developer mode.
- The message "Plugin developer mode is on." confirms it. The same submenu now has:
- New plugin templates, see Plugin templates;
- Import plugin from folder…, to load a plugin you are working on;
- Hot reload plugins and Open plugin console, see The plugin console and hot reload.
Choose the same command again to turn it off. The quickstart goes from here to a working plugin.
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Last updated Nov 12, 2026
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