=== title: Plugins subtitle: extra shots for your awesome espresso created: 2011-01-28 16:18:06 === §§ blurb Hyde is built with a nuclear engine that is stripped down but powerful. Even core features like `metadata` are added as plugins to keep the engine bloat free. Hyde's plugin architecture is event driven; plugins get notified during the course of the generation to allow them to alter/guide the generation process. If you are interested in creating plugins for hyde, you can read the [developer documentation][devdocs]. §§ /blurb ## Configuration Hyde's plugins get loaded if they are listed in the plugins section of [configuration][]. Plugins also accept additional parameters in their respective sections. For example, `MyAwesomePlugin` will get parameters from `myawesome` section in the configuration file. ## In the box Hyde is shipped with the following plugins: * [Metadata][] * [Autoextend][] * [Sorter][] * [Less CSS][] * [Text Replacement Plugins][] - [Blockdown][] - [Mark and Refer][] - [Textlinks][] - [Syntext][] * [Folder flattener][] [Autoextend]: [[plugins/autoextend]] [Blockdown]: [[plugins/blockdown]] [Folder flattener]: Folder flattener [Less CSS]: Less CSS [Mark and Refer]: Mark and Refer [Metadata]: Metadata [Sorter]: Sorter [Syntext]: Syntext [Text Replacement Plugins]: Text Replacement Plugins [Textlinks]: Textlinks [configuration]: configuration [devdocs]: devdocs