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Sadly, we have to conclude that we no longer have the funds to continue the maintenance of: https://moodle.org/plugins/block_user_favorites

If you rely on this plugin, you can do the following things:

1. Find a new developer that will continue the maintenance; we are open for the Plugin Adoption Program.
2. Send an email to sales@ltnc.nl, and ask for our LTNC Addon Maintenance Program.

On behalf of the LTNC Serviceteam. 
Gemma 

Hi

I'm working for Moodle Premium Partner E-LearningTouch' and we would like to adopt the block "Download Certificates".

The plugin is not updated for 7 years and it was listed in this (very old) post :

https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=314132

I contacted Manieer, and I'm waiting his response for this adoption process.

Cheers.

We don't run any moodle sites using the https://moodle.org/plugins/tool_groupautoenrol and therefore offer it up for adoption. 

We do have the capability to continue the maintenance of this addon by adding it to our LTNC Addon Maintenance Program, but that requires at least 2 organizations that are willing to pay a yearly fee for it.

On behalf of the LTNC Serviceteam. 
Gemma 

Hi,

in the Moodle plugins database the "promoted" plugins are only those that have the "Certified Integration" badge or are there other ways to make a plugin "promoted"?

Thank you

Hello fellow Moodlers!

Moodle 5.0 has been released today, and it's the perfect time to get your hands dirty, dust off those good old unit tests, and make sure your Moodle plugins are up-to-date with the latest core version! Don’t miss this unique opportunity—join the traditional Early bird challenge!

Moodle plugin developers have three weeks to update and test their plugins for compatibility with the latest major release. Plugins will be awarded the Early bird 5.0 badge if a tested, working 5.0-compatible version is available by Monday, 5 May, 23:59 UTC.

As always, simply marking your current version as compatible is not enough. Plugin maintainers are expected to:

• Test their plugins thoroughly with Moodle 5.0 (Behat and PHPUnit tests are very helpful).
• Fix any warnings, notices, regressions, or issues that arise.
• Release a new compatible version in the Plugins directory or properly mark the existing one as compatible.

We reserve the right to withhold or revoke the badge if there is reason to believe the plugin was not properly tested. Late submissions will not be accepted.

See the growing list of plugins that support version 5.0 in the Plugins directory.

Thank you in advance for keeping your plugins up-to-date with the latest Moodle versions!

Hello,

We've developed a very simple plugin that displays a banner at the top of courses that belong to a certain category (everything is configurable, you can have several "rules" that consist of a category and an associated message).
In Geneva, we'll be using it to give teachers an alert if they move a course into a “trash” category, which is emptied regularly. (In principle, teachers do this voluntarily, it's a strategy put in place to avoid some of the ghost courses)

I was wondering if this plugin might be of interest to the moodle community and if you think it has a chance of being validated? We'd be happy to contribute to the collaborative aspect of moodle and it would also be reassuring for our management (even if the plugin was written with their support).

Have a nice day,

Fanny

PS: for the moment, the code is sourced on github: https://github.com/Fanny1203/pluginmoodle_categorybanne

I am the Lead Maintainer on 3 plugins:

https://moodle.org/plugins/browse.php?list=contributor&id=2182668

I have added this user to all three plugins:

https://moodle.org/plugins/browse.php?list=contributor&id=2182668

As I am no longer with Integrity Advocate, I would like to transfer Lead Maintainer status for all 3 plugins to Brent.

Thanks in advance!

Hello

I created a fork to tool_pluginskel: https://github.com/jrangelardila/moodle-tool_pluginskel

I was working in this, I have interested in adoption of this plugin. It's possible?

Dear Moodle Community,

I am interested in adopting the tool_health plugin.

Please guide me on the next steps to proceed with the adoption.

Best regards,

Vincent Schneider (cli-ish)

On a different note, can we request deletion of our obsolete plugins? Eg an ATTO button.

Probably don't need a badge for that either

(Edited by David Mudrák - original submission Thursday, 27 February 2025, 3:28 AM) - splitting to a separate thread

Hi

First of all : Bloavez mad // Pace e Salute 

I'm currently working for Moodle Premium Partner E-LearningTouch' and we would like to adopt the local plugin "Multiple Enrollment".

The plugin is not updated for 12 years.

The lead maintainer hasn't been online for 11 years.

I contacted Nadav Kavalerchik who made a fork, and he recommended that I post this adoption message.

We already have a new version for 4.5 and below that works well.

We have a github account and yet a plugin in the official database.

I don't think we can use the original github.

Can we apply the "forced adoption" process ? Maybe leaving 2 weeks in order to see if some moodlers have comments 

We'll add the latest version to our github repository if adoption is accepted, and I'll submit it asap to Moodle community.

Regards

Hi fellow plugin developers!

About 2 months ago I submitted a new qtype plugin to the Moodle Tracker. A CONTRIB-xxxx report was created. Recently my plugin was reviewed and I was required to make changes. I have made those changes, uploaded a new version to the Plugins directory and clicked the Request review button there.

Now when I go to the Moodle tracker I can see this in the top row of links:

Should I click on the Request review button? or will this change automatically?

TIA

Joseph

When installing the All-or-Nothing Multiple Choice plugin I get this error "PHP setting max_input_vars must be at least 5000." I've checked and that variable is in fact set to 5000 on my server and also in my php.ini file. Anyone have any ideas about this??

How are the statistics of plugin translation in the plugin directory calculated?

The plugin Category Duplicate https://moodle.org/plugins/local_catdup. It's very efficient when It's necessary duplicated all data in a categorie in a few minutes.

This plugin is not updated from three years. I will like to update it's. What is the process?

Hi!

Better late than never, they say. And they're right! Let me add, it's never too late to keep your Moodle plugins up-to-date with the latest core development! Now with Moodle 4.5 out, it is once again the time to grab the opportunity and join the traditional Early bird challenge!

Moodle plugin developers have three weeks to get their plugins fixed and tested for the latest major update. Plugins will be awarded with the Early bird 4.5 badge if they have a tested working 4.5 compatible version available on Monday 28 October 23:59 UTC.

Same as ever before, it is not enough to simply mark your current versions as compatible. Plugin maintainers are expected to:

• Test plugins intensively against Moodle 4.5 (Behat and PHPUnit tests help a lot).
• Fix all eventually raised warnings, notices, regressions and problems.
• Release a new compatible version in the Plugins directory, or mark the existing one as compatible.

We reserve the right to not grant or revoke the award from a plugin if there is a suspicion that it was not tested well. There will be no exceptions for late submissions.

See the growing list of plugins that support the 4.5 version in the Plugins directory.

Thank you in advance for keeping your plugins up-to-date with the latest Moodle versions!

Hi,

I am currently a maintainer for mod_peerwork and I would like to add other developers as maintainers. I think I need to be Lead Maintainer to do that.

I took over from Jez H a few years ago as his employer moved away from using Moodle. I have tried contacting him but I'm not sure if he is at the same email address.

Who do I need to speak to to take over as Lead maintainer?

Thank you

The Moodle plugins database allows plugins to be listed in various predefined orders (sites, favourites, downloads, etc). However, the first 3 plugins listed are those that have the "A Moodle Certified Integration" badge on them, regardless of the order selected. This seems like a bug to me.

Separately, each displayed page contains 30 plugins. The first page has the 3 certified plugins, followed by the top 27 plugins with the highest number according to the sort criterion selected. The second page starts with the 31st highest and continues to the 60th. So the 28th, 29th, and 30th highest plugins are omitted, I believe.

Hello,

This is my first post on this forum, I may not know exactly how to proceed here.
The Active Quiz plug-in seems to be orphaned.

https://moodle.org/plugins/mod_activequiz
As this is a very useful plug-in, we have developed an updated version for moodle 4.1 and would like to share it with the moodle community.
We may not be able to maintain it thereafter.
What are the next steps? Thank you for any help you can give us on this matter.
Thanks !
Fabien

Hi, One of our plugins, Inactive User Cleanup (https://moodle.org/plugins/tool_inactive_user_cleanup), currently lists Arindam Ghosh as the lead maintainer. As he is no longer with us, could you please update the lead maintainer to our team i.e. DualCube team?

Additionally, our plugin Drag-and-Drop Matching (https://moodle.org/plugins/qtype_ddmatch) is marked as "Seeking new maintainer." Could you please remove this tag also?

Thank you for your assistance.

Team DualCube

It's moodle version 3.5.7, and I didn't do anything, but an update pops up on the main page saying that the basic plugin has been updated.
I am curious about the logic behind notifying an update when a basic plugin update is detected.
I am curious about the location and function of the PHP file that performs this function.

Hi Everyone!

Great news! 

Moodle 4.4-beta is out! And it is time to grab the opportunity and accept the traditional Early bird challenge!
Moodle plugin developers have three weeks to get their plugins fixed and tested for the upcoming major update.

Plugins will be awarded with the Early bird 4.4 badge if they have a tested working 4.4 compatible version available on Friday 10 May 23:59 UTC.

Same as ever before, it is not enough to simply mark your current versions as compatible. Plugin maintainers are expected to:

• Test plugins intensively against Moodle 4.4 (Behat and PHPUnit tests help a lot).

• Fix all eventually raised warnings, notices, regressions and problems.

• Release a new compatible version in the Plugins directory, or mark the existing one as compatible.

We reserve the right to not grant or revoke the award from a plugin if there is a suspicion that it was not tested well. There will be no exceptions for late submissions.

For the growing list of plugins that support the 4.4 version, please see the Moodle LMS 4.4 plugins directory.

Thank you in advance for keeping your plugins up-to-date with the latest Moodle versions!

Best,
Olga and the Community Sites team

• I have submitted two pull requests in December 2023 and have pinged the maintainers several times, the last time in January 2024.
• I have sent a mail to the maintainers on January 11th, 2024 where I asked whether they were still maintaining the plugin and offered to help out.
• On February 11th, I have sent them a message via the plugin directory's built-in messaging system where I offered my help again and pointed them to the plugin adoption programme.

As I have still not received an answer from neither of the two maintainers, I would like to ask the plugin directory curators whether a forced adoption of the plugin would be possible. For reference, I am the maintainer of the Formulas question plugin and have already submitted some (very minor) contributions to core.

My plans, if the adoption is possible, are to assure compatibility with recent (and upcoming) versions of Moodle and implement automatic testing.

Best regards

Dear sirs,

When using the format_tiles plugin 4.2.0.12023060200, in the student profile, viewing the completion of each activity in a course is unavailable. It is an exceptional plugin that has been widely used by the community in educational institutions around the world. In many countries, we are starting the planning and configuration of courses scheduled for 2024 and which will begin soon. Would it be possible to resolve this issue quickly? We thank you for your attention, understanding and commitment. We await news!

Hello, I am no longer maintaining block_quickcourselist. I have had an offer from Gemma Lesterhuis to adopt the plugin and maintain it going forwards. Please can the necessary actions be taken to put it up for adoption and/or transfer it to her?

Thanks Mark

Hello Moodlers, 👋

We have implemented some updates in the main page of the plugins directory to improve the navigation and filtering experience.

It would be great if you can interact with the interface and share your feedback through the form you will find on the site. https://moodle.org/plugins/

You can find a more detailed explanation on the plugins directory updates in the Moodle developer documentation.

Hi folks.

It has come to it. Due to limited time availability I can no longer responsibly maintain my own Moodle plugins. I haven't been for some time actually. Following the reasoning outlined in my post back in 2014, my last duty now is to hand them off to competent successors. Therefore I am putting all my plugins up for adoption:

• https://moodle.org/plugins/mod_subcourse
• https://moodle.org/plugins/mod_poster
• https://moodle.org/plugins/block_course_contents
• https://moodle.org/plugins/tool_pluginskel
• https://moodle.org/plugins/enrol_groupsync
• https://moodle.org/plugins/editor_marklar
• https://moodle.org/plugins/block_todo
• https://moodle.org/plugins/tool_courseautoapprove
• https://moodle.org/plugins/workshopeval_credit

• https://moodle.org/plugins/format_columns
• https://moodle.org/plugins/format_noticebd
• https://moodle.org/plugins/format_weekcoll
• https://moodle.org/plugins/theme_essential
• https://moodle.org/plugins/theme_mutant_banjo
• https://moodle.org/plugins/theme_shoehorn
• https://moodle.org/plugins/theme_shoelace

Hi there,

I notice the monthly statistics for plugins (sites installed, downloads, etc.) have not yet been updated to include July 2023. Can this be done please?

Moodle 3.8 Installation Error for PHP has not been properly configured with the MySQLi extension.

We are trying to register our new plugin https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/moodle-assignsubmission_onlyoffice (it's an additional plugin for our main one which extends its functionality https://moodle.org/plugins/mod_onlyofficeeditor)

However, the system says that Another plugin with the same frankenstyle component name assignsubmission_onlyoffice already exists in this Plugins database.

Could you please help us and say what does it mean? Somebody registered our plugin?

What are we supposed to do in this case? 

We will be glad to get any help. Thanks!

Hello!

Good news! Moodle 4.2-beta is out! And it is time to grab the opportunity and accept the traditional Early bird challenge!
Moodle plugin developers will have three weeks to get their plugins fixed and tested for the upcoming major update.

Plugins will be awarded with the Early bird 4.2 badge if they have a tested working 4.2 compatible version available on 8 May 2023 at 23:59:59 UTC.

Same as ever before, it is not enough to simply mark your current versions as compatible. Plugin maintainers are expected to:

• Test plugins intensively against Moodle 4.2 (Behat and PHPUnit tests help a lot).
• Fix all eventually raised warnings, notices, regressions and problems.
• Release a new compatible version in the Plugins directory, or mark the existing one as compatible.

We reserve the right to not grant or revoke the award from a plugin if there is a suspicion that it was not tested well. There will be no exceptions for late submissions.

For the growing list of plugins that support the 4.2 version, please see the Moodle LMS 4.2 plugins directory.

Thank you in advance for keeping your plugins up-to-date with the latest Moodle versions!

Best regards,
Aurélie and the Community Sites team

Hello dear community,

it has been a while since I last used it and now I cannot find the link anymore. I used to add plugins to favourites very often to keep track of useful plugins. THere used to be a link on the right sight of the plugins overview page. Now with the new design of the plugins section I cannot find anymore. Can someone help please?

Best regards

Robert

Need help, my system is hosted and had the authorize.net plugin added for payment of course.  Updated the settings to include all pertinent information.  Added a course to test and when I click on link to pay, it opens this small windows requesting card number, expiry date, expry month, code.  Enter the card information and click on pay and receive response "there are some errors" and nothing more.  Don't know if I should be entering information in a certain format because there is no information on small screen.  I was expecting the information page that Authorize.Net uses to collect information would appear.

I contact my hosted server team and they have no error messages and authorize.net cannot tell me anything without any error message.  Can anyone help me get this working on my site.

Version installed: 2.6.2 (Build: 2022050601)

Hello!

Good news! Moodle 4.1-beta is out! And it is time to grab the opportunity and accept the traditional Early bird challenge!

Moodle plugin developers will have over three weeks to get their plugins fixed and tested for the upcoming major update.

Plugins will be awarded with the Early bird 4.1 badge if they have a tested working 4.1 compatible version available on 12 December 2022 at 23:59:59 UTC.

Same as ever before, it is not enough to simply mark you current versions as compatible. Plugin maintainers are expected to:

• Test plugins intensively against Moodle 4.1 (Behat and PHPUnit tests help a lot).
• Fix all eventually raised warnings, notices, regressions and problems.
• Release a new compatible version in the Plugins directory, or mark the existing one as compatible.

We reserve the right to not grant or revoke the award from a plugin if there is a suspicion that it was not tested well. There will be no exceptions for late submissions.

For the growing list of plugins that support the 4.1 version, please see the Moodle LMS 4.1 plugins directory.

Thank you in advance for keeping your plugins up-to-date with latest Moodle versions!

Best regards,
Aurélie

I am trying to make a rest call to a Microsoft calendar service.  A generic curl call works however when trying to use the Moodle core Rest API I get an error saying: "clean_param() can not process arrays, please use clean_param_array() instead." from the rest.php, but I have to pass the array as shown below.

I tried json_encode for the parameters that are arrays but that didn't work either.  I tried changing the interface for the service: 

Hi, 

Is there any good sample to structure the plugin directory, yes i have visited the https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Plugin_files page, but it's not answering my question, lets take for example that i want to have helper functions to implement the DRY principle and I'm not sure if it's allowed to create new folder helpers and it will contain some helper files.

A Google search for a dynamic cohort manager Moodle plugin (https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=moodle+plugin+dynamic+cohort+manager) turned up this link: https://moodle.org/plugins/tool_cohortmanager However that page says the plugin has either not bee published or is temporarily disabled.

I also found this article https://avetica.nl/2022/08/16/dynamic-cohort-manager/ describing the plugin, which would suggest that the plugin existed/was downloadable at some point in the past.

I'm hoping the plugin's developer / maintainer reads this forum, and if so could they please advise what happened, and whether there are plans to re-publish the plugin in future (and approximately when).

Thanks!

I have a custom player for a specific file type (sb3 file format; you can see it working at https://rrf.vfu.mybluehost.me/forkphorustest.html).

I want my Moodle users to be able to upload an sb3 file to their moodle platform so that the file will be shown in the player in their moodle courses/pages.

Where do I start from to create this plugin? I know enough Javascript, PHP, etc but I have no idea of the available components in Moodle to painlessly create this plugin (note: even an Atto/TinyCME subplugin could be perfect for me).

Thanks in advance for your help and support

I have some turnover in my team and I need to change the people who are allowed to publish updates and new releases to the plugins I co-maintain.  Could someone point me in the right direction, please?

I cannot find anything in the web interface, and my attempts to google for documentation turn up only false hits about every other part of the development cycle.  

TIA

I'm the principal developer of the CodeRunner plugin, which has needed fairly extensive changes to achieve Moodle4 compatability. In the process, of course, it has become incompatible with Moodle3. I'm now wondering how best to release the new version. Currently it's in the Development branch on GitHub with the Moodle3-compatible code still in Master.

Following a suggestion from Tim Hunt, I'm considering cloning the current master branch to a new branch MOODLE_3X_STABLE  which would be maintained separately as required for Moodle 3. The Moodle4-compatible Development branch would then be merged into Master, which would continue in its role as "latest version".

A complication that is likely to arise shortly, though, is that further breaking changes are likely to be needed for Moodle4.1, which changes the question bank API. So I will then possibly/probably need another branch called MOODLE-40_STABLE and Master will then be compatible only with Moodle4.1. However, I say "possibly/probably" because I'm not yet sure what changes will be needed; it might be possible to localise the changes in the code so that a version compatible with both Moodle 4.0 and Moodle4.1 is possible.

This proliferation of versions is a pity, but I don't see a way to avoid it except by putting in lots of conditional code of the form "if this version of moodle do this else ... ". There are just too many places where CodeRunner depends on the database question scheme and - probably - the questionbank API .

Does anyone have any comments or suggestions regarding this proposal?

There is not a lot of traffic on the handful of plugins I maintain, but from time to time a user posts a comment on the plugin Comments.

The problem is that - as the author/maintainer --- I do not receive a notification that a new comment has been posted. The only way to keep informed is to visit that Comments page regularly.

Then, what is the point of the Unsubscribe from comments link at the bottom of the page?

Strangely, Subscribe and Unsubscribe links are identical, as for example: https://moodle.org/plugins/subscribe.php?type=comment&pluginid=120

Hello everyone,  i am new in moodle plugin development I want to create new plugin for display a report contains course name , teacher name and topics related to this course .

What is the steps for create this plugin including the files I must create  and during the development process its nessesary to use git.

I am using moodle v 3.11.6

Hello Everyone. 

I am working on one new specific moodle plugin. The module enables text and multimedia to be inserted into the course page so it's an  Activity/Resource. I am using Moodle 3 installed with Binami stack through Docker (image: docker.io/bitnami/moodle:3-debian-10).

The plugin is an Activity since I know that is possible to go to in "Site administration/Plugins/Activity modules/Manage activities" and click in the Eye to Hide my Plugin. This hides the resource in the "Add an activity or resource" modal. But this also hides already added resources on the course page. 

My question: It is possible to hide (or even uninstall) an  Activity/Resource plugin and keep the old resources visible in the course section? 

Thanks in advance.

Good news! Moodle 4.0-beta (2022030300) was tagged in the git repository today! And it is time to grab the opportunity and accept the traditional Early bird challenge!

We know ourselves it may take a while to get your plugins ready when there are substantial changes and improvements expected. So we make an exception this time. Instead of the common three weeks, Moodle plugin developers will now have six weeks to get their plugins fixed and tested for the upcoming major update!

Plugins will be awarded with the Early bird 4.0 badge if they have a tested working 4.0 compatible version available on 18 April 2022 at 23:59:59 UTC.

Same as ever before, it is not enough to simply mark you current versions as compatible. Plugin maintainers are expected to:

• Test plugins intensively against Moodle 4.0 (Behat and PHPUnit tests help a lot).
• Fix all eventually raised warnings, notices, regressions and problems.
• Release a new compatible version in the plugins directory, or mark the existing one as compatible.

We reserve the right to not grant or revoke the award from a plugin if there is a suspicion that it was not tested well. There will be no exceptions for late submissions.

For the growing list of plugins that support the 4.0 version, please see https://moodle.org/plugins/?q=moodle-version:4.0

Thank you in advance for keeping your plugins up-to-date with latest Moodle versions!

Edited on 6 March 2022: Fixed the deadline date from 11 to 18 April to match the scheduled major release date.

H!

Looks like this guy - https://moodle.org/plugins/mod_adaptivequiz - acquired a new maintainer (you won't believe it, it's me 😃 ), so I think it would make sense to remove it from the 'Seeking new maintainer' set. I'm also planning to contact Adam (the original plugin developer) to hand off the maintenance completely a bit later.

Let me know if I'm required to take any extra steps in this story, thank you!

I'm a totally newbie in moodle development and therefore I have a very general question.
I would like to make something like the completion button, which can be enabled on each activity of a course.
What type of plugin should I use? I think the block plugin is the only one that could fit.
But normally (I just finished the tutorial for the block plugin) only one block is created on the page. Is it possible to add a block (or something like a button/checkbox/combobox/radio buttons) to each acitivity?

Hi David,

I would like to adopt and volunteer to be the new maintainer of the Course Request Manager plugin which appears to be abandoned since 2018-09-17 (almost 3.5 years).

I have attempted to contact the maintainers directly and indirectly on multiple occasions over the past 6 months through Moodle.org, GitHub, direct email and even LinkedIn (I tracked them down) enquiring about their plan to continue maintaining and update this plugin to fix it up and make it compatible with recent versions of Moodle, or alternatively to transfer its ownership to me. Sadly, I never received a response. Neither of the maintainers has logged into Moodle.org since early 2019.

I am already maintaining a fork of this plugin since early 2021 which includes many fixes for bug, accessibility, language, Moodle 3.9-3.11 compatibility, UI and usability issues. I also integrated commits from other forks of the plugin. I would like to make all these updates available to the Moodle community on Moodle.org.

Please let me know if there is anything more that I need to do or that you would like to know.

Best regards,

Michael

I'm trying to register this plugin https://github.com/logicexpertise/moodle-mod_onlyoffice on the Moodle Plugins database. When I upload the zip file and click 'Continue', I get an error saying the plugin already exists. However a search for a plugin with that name comes up blank.

Can anyone please tell me how to find the said existing plugin?

In the course of submitting a new plugin (Random select answers) I have encountered the following issue.

In the Edit this plugin form, a Logo file can be submitted. The Logo field specifies: "Accepted file types: Image files used on the web .gif .jpe .jpeg .jpg .png .svg .svgz"

However, the .svg files are not accepted. The only question type that tried to insert a .svg logo file is Record audio question type, and it does not work as can be seen on its page.

By the way, out of the approx. 80 question types in the plugin directory, only 28 feature a logo there.

Can someone please amend the Logo field description with the correct types of accepted image files? Thanks.

I've had a report that the 'Rename root directory' functionality when uploading a new version of a plugin is not working -> https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=424140#p1708407 - is anybody else experiencing this please? -> 

Hello! I am very happy to finally announce availability of some new features in the Moodle Plugins directory. These improvements are mostly relevant for the maintainers who release new versions of their plugins regularly.

Improved version number validation

• Plugins must have well formatted version number defined as $plugin->version in their version.php file. Invalid values used to raise warning only before.
• If specified, the $plugin->requires must be Moodle core version number in the form of YYYYMMDDRR or YYYYMMDDRR.XX. Invalid values did not raise any warning before.
• For plugins that specify $plugin->requires only in their version.php, all Moodle releases with version number equal or greater than the required one will be automatically selected as supported by default.
• The incompatible Moodle branch specified in $plugin->incompatible is now validated and taken into account when populating the default list of supported Moodle versions (all between the required one and the incompatible one).
• Supported Moodle branches specified in $plugin->supported are now respected when populating the list of supported Moodle versions. Only versions that pass all present conditions (supported, requires and incompatible) will be selected.
• It is no longer possible to release a new version that would have the same version build number as some already released version. This is intended to avoid having different ZIP packages both appearing as the same version which effectively breaks other mechanisms in Moodle such as available update notifications.
• When attempting to release a new version that has the version number lower than some other already existing plugin version supporting the same Moodle version, a validation warning is raised. Without further action (such as hiding the version that had existed), the newly added version would have no effect on Moodle branches supported by both plugin versions.

API for maintainers

Plugins directory has some of its functionality exposed via web service now. This allows maintainers to release new versions of their plugins automatically - for example using local shell scripts - without the need to fill the form at the web UI.

Please see Plugins directory API docs page for details.

Release by tagging at GitHub

The new API allows to implement integrations with your CI and release workflows. An example of such an integration - ability to release new plugin versions simply by tagging them at GitHub - has been published. Please see https://github.com/moodlehq/moodle-plugin-release for details.

Many thanks everybody for your valuable inputs and suggestions in relevant tracker issues MDLSITE-4781 and MDLSITE-4041.

The plugin available at https://moodle.org/plugins/auth_onelogin_saml is abandoned (+10y with no activity).

I tried to contact the maintainer in order to transfer its ownership to me with no luck.

I'm already maintaining it at https://github.com/onelogin/moodle-saml/

It appears this plugin has been abandoned. It's not been updated in 3 years. The Lead Maintainer (Clem Smith) has not logged into moodle.org for 3 years, and it's not possible to contact him through moodle.org's internal messaging system  (https://moodle.org/message/index.php?id=1894540 returns an error).

The institution, University of Minnesota, where the maintainer (see link on plugin's github page https://github.com/at-tools) was based, no longer runs Moodle (https://vetmed.umn.edu/education/educational-support/moodle).

I have posted  an issue on the massaction github page with a link to this issue - https://github.com/at-tools/moodle-block_massaction/issues/43.

From what I've seen of Moodle 4.0, it's possible this plugin should not be needed after its release. We don't use it a great deal, but some users do use it. I don't really have the resources to support this plugin, so if someone else can take it on board, I think the community would appreciate it.

With Moodle 3.11-beta (2021050700) tagged in the git repository, it is time again for the traditional Early bird challenge for the Moodle plugins developers.

Plugins will be awarded with the Early bird 3.11 badge if they have a tested working 3.11 compatible version available in three weeks on 31 May 2021 at 23:59:59 UTC.

Same as ever before, it is not enough to simply mark you current versions as 3.11 compatible. Plugin maintainers are expected to:

• Test plugins intensively against Moodle 3.11 (Behat and PHPUnit tests help a lot).
• Fix all eventually raised warnings, notices, regressions and problems.
• Release a new compatible version in the plugins directory, or mark the existing one as compatible.

We reserve the right to not grant or revoke the award from a plugin if there is a suspicion that it was not tested well. There will be no exceptions for late submissions.

For the growing list of plugins that support the 3.11 version, please see https://moodle.org/plugins/?q=moodle-version:3.11

Thank you in advance for keeping your plugins up-to-date with latest Moodle versions!

I need to get some of the Poodll plugins translated into different languages. The AMOS system works great but at its own pace, and somehow asking volunteers to do our work seems like freeloading. Is the concept of putting bounties on AMOS tasks, or even bugs, a possibility? 

I guess if we introduce money into the community it could warp things a little. Perhaps we could offer donations to Moodle conditional on the bounty being performed or something like that.

Thoughts?

Hi

There are a number of plugins that I am still listed as a contributor to, that I really have nothing to do with any more. How do I remove myself from these?

Hi developers!

The next version of the Moodle app (to be released at the end of June) will have some breaking changes for plugins due to the upgrade to Ionic 5. If you have a plugin with mobile support, please take a look at this forum post:

https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=420585

Cheers,

Dani

I would like to announce that Stamp collection module is now seeking a new lead maintainer.

This was my very first Moodle plugin written back in 2007 and it has had very special place in my developer's heart. That is also probably a reason why I hesitated for too long to offer it for adoption, even when I effectively stopped maintaining it around version 3.4 and haven't updated it since then.

Naturally, I would do things differently today - including the name of the module which was not well chosen. If I started with it today, I would probably call it "Stickers" or "Stickers collection". But actually - I think there are better and mainly up-to-date solutions covering the same educational scenario such as Badges or Level XP or similar gamification plugins.

I was approached by David Mudrák about adopting the Overview Statistics plugin after making a recent Pull Request to bring the plugin up to date with 3.10 compatibility.  I've been a software developer and recently devops engineer for over 10 years and have been doing on-prem Moodle administration for a couple years now.  I'm inspired by Moodle's mission and would love to start giving back to the platform in this capacity.

In my own plugin dir pages when I get a notification of a comment, its usually spam. I send it to the moderator (Helen Foster).

In many cases though I doubt plugin admins are that active. I just came across a plugin with 12 pages of comments, almost entirely spam.

https://moodle.org/plugins/filter_simplespeak

Its not the fault of the plugin's author in my opinion. I just don't think we can expect plugin admins to all maintain their own comments. But I really think we should put in place some way of keeping spammers out , that does not tax Moodle's own human resources.

Do we even need comments? Could we just turn them off?

*EDIT*  I had a look around and while there is def. spam on other plugin comments, nothing like this one. Perhaps its just an outlier?

Hi everyone

I'm developing a moodle plugin to interface with a my own app framework. This way I can have the apps developed in my framework to integrate smoothly and directly into moodle.

My plugin have a lot of dependencies and it has thousands of files in sub-directories.

So my problem is that moodle hangs when upgrading to a newer version. After an insight look of moodle upgrade process I've realized that during this process, all subdirectories of my module are deeply scanned. This hangs the process and the server timeouts.

I can't increase the timeout of my production server.

My question is: Is there a way to tell moodle not to scan my subdirectories during an upgrade?

Thank you very much , I'm having this issue for months.

If this is in the wrong forum, please redirect me to the correct one.

Many thanks,

Paulo Tavares, Portugal

With Moodle 3.10-beta (2020102800) tagged in the git repository, it is time again for the traditional Early bird challenge for the Moodle plugins developers.

Plugins will be awarded with the Early bird 3.10 badge if they have a tested working 3.10 compatible version available in three weeks on 23 November 2020 at 23:59:59 UTC.

Same as ever before, it is not enough to simply mark you current versions as 3.10 compatible. Plugin maintainers are expected to:

• Test plugins intensively against Moodle 3.10 (Behat and PHPUnit tests help a lot).
• Fix all eventually raised warnings, notices, regressions and problems.
• Release a new compatible version in the plugins directory, or mark the existing one as compatible.

We reserve the right to not grant or revoke the award from a plugin if there is a suspicion that it was not tested well. There will be no exceptions for late submissions.

For the growing list of plugins that support the 3.10 version, please see https://moodle.org/plugins/?q=moodle-version:3.10

Thank you in advance for keeping your plugins up-to-date with latest Moodle versions!

Hi everyone,

Sorry if this message is sent to a wrong forum. This is the first time I post something here in the moodle community.

I found a plugin on Envato which is for wordpress. I need a developer to either convert it to a moodle plugin or develop it from scratch.

Plugin can be found here (https://codecanyon.net/item/ultimate-video-player-wordpress-plugin/8374433).

Thanks,

I am a beginner with Moodle. I have had the plugins for: 

1. eTask topics format 

2. Flexible sections

Now I am trying to use them both for the same course, but I can't. Moodle requires to select just one course format. 

I need them both for the same course. 

Is it possible? What should I do?

My Moodle is 3.7 docs. 

Thank you in advance

On my questionnaire plugin, I have releases tagged to the various stable branches. In many cases, a release supports multiple releases of Moodle, and there is crossover. It seems that versions are hidden from the versions tab depending on whether or not Moodle releases are tagged in the version.

For example, this is what I see now:

If I add 3.6 and 3.7 to the Version 3.8.3 information, then it will stop displaying the 3.8.2 and 3.7.4 releases.

What I would like is to have the latest version for each of my 3.x branches displayed. How do I do that?

What I've done for now, is 'lie' about what versions of Moodle each release supports, removing version to cause my versions to be displayed. Then I put in the Readme all of the versions of Moodle each release 'really' supports, but that makes it less obvious. Is there a way for me to specify that a version should be displayed with all of the Moodle releases it supports?

May the Moodle version 3.9 live long and prosper!

And you can help, too! With the Moodle 3.9-beta (2020060700) tagged in the git repository, it is time for the traditional Early bird challenge for the Moodle plugins developers. Yay!

Plugins will be awarded with the Early bird 3.9 badge if they have a tested working 3.9 compatible version available in three weeks on Monday 29 June 2020 at 23:59:59 UTC.

Same as before, it is not enough to simply mark you current versions as 3.9 compatible. Plugin maintainers are expected to:

• Test plugins intensively against Moodle 3.9 (Behat and PHPUnit tests help a lot).
• Fix all eventually raised warnings, notices, regressions and problems.
• Release a new compatible version in the plugins directory, or mark the existing one as compatible.

We reserve the right to not grant or revoke the award from a plugin if there is a suspicion that it was not tested well. There will be no exceptions for late submissions.

For the growing list of plugins that support the 3.9 version, please see https://moodle.org/plugins/?q=moodle-version:3.9

Thank you in advance for keeping your plugins up-to-date with latest Moodle versions!

Hello David,

As you probably know, Jean-Michel Vedrine is the maintainer of several plugins, including the Formulas question type which interests me more particularly. In April 2017, Jean-Michel wrote: "I am sad to report that most probably there will be no new version from me and I will put this plugin in the 'seeking for adoption' list." ( ref.: Downloads). I think Jean-Michel is now retired and doesn't really support this plugin anymore. However, I couldn't find the plugin in the "Seeking new maintainer" list.

The latest version of the plugin is entitled "4.81 for Moodle 3.0 to 3.5" and was released on September 1, 2018. Although the title says that the plugin is only suitable for versions up to 3.5, the line under the title seems to indicate that the plugin is approved for Moodle up to 3.6.

The need for an officially approved version of the Formulas qtype plugin for Moodle 3.7 and 3.8 is becoming more and more urgent for many users. Eleven people have forked Jean-Michel's GitHub repository, but no one has made the required updates, perhaps because Jean-Michel has often said that the code for the formulas qtype is quite complex.

I have decided to fork the plugin and I think I have made the necessary changes in order to submit it for approval for these new versions of Moodle. For now, I made only the minimum changes, that is, the version number, etc., and I haven't made any improvements to the code itself. No problems have been reported regarding the use of the plugin with the latest versions of Moodle and I think that the simple fact of having an approval for Moodle 3.7 and 3.8 would be appreciated by many users. Obviously this does not exclude future improvements to the code.

I created the moodleformulas.org site for the documentation of the plugin and I regularly answer questions on the quiz forum. I am reasonably familiar with HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Although I know the basics of PHP, I still need to learn a lot. Nonetheless, if you think I am competent enough to be the new maintainer, I would like to do so. Otherwise, I hope this post will grab attention and that someone else will soon be able to maintain the Formulas qtype plugin.

Hi there,

I notice the monthly statistics for plugins (sites installed, downloads, etc.) have not yet been updated to include April. Can this be done please?

Is there an API I can call from Github or Bitbucket to update my moodle.org/plugins plugin version info programmatically?

Hello,

I am not sure on which tracker project to report it.

I can not upload a new version of "moosh" package - the process most likely times out when moosh.zip is uploaded. This may likely be due to the fact that there is a lot of files there (in vendor directory) and unzipping may be taking a lot of time.

Every time I try to upload I get the page with: 

Something seems to be wrong with the Internet.

Uploading:

Result:

I'm looking for information on how to submit a plugin for the public to use.

Can someone direct me to the right procedure? 

I put together a local plugin that was born from the needs expressed in this post, to host stand-alone pages in Moodle not associated with any course, report or module:

https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=398277

Hi,

I've launched the script admin/cli/check_database_schema.php on several Moodle instances, used from years, and found problems for several plugins.

I think it's a coherence problem between files db/upgrade.php and db/install.xml.
Plugin developpers should think to adapt the db/upgrade.php file to reflect changes in db/install.xml.

On the other hand, administrators should think to launch admin/cli/check_database_schema.php before and after each plugin update. That would allow them to see problems soon when a new plugin version comes out, with this problem, to report it to the developper.

For the benefit of the whole community, what would be the best way to verify lots of plugins? Install an old Moodle version, with old plugins versions, and try to update them (several times) to see where the problem occur? Ask administrators to launch admin/cli/check_database_schema.php on there Moodle installations and publish the results?

And then, how to inform plugin developpers so that they can improve plugins?

Séverin

Hello All

Since almost year I don't use Moodle any more.

I am willing to give following plugins:

https://moodle.org/plugins/block_timestat
https://moodle.org/plugins/format_mindmap

Into good hands

They are not shared in any git repo. A new maintainer should simply download packages and make initial commit using them.

Hi there. 

We have a new plugin that blocks course till it would be paid. It has two modes 

1. Course-wide restriction mode (CWRM)

2. Activity restriction mode (ARM)

in CWRM it blocks all course starting block point in ARM it creates one or more block points. To move forward, student has to pay for it. Plugin was developed especially for Ukraine as all existent payment methods are not allowed here. 

PayAllWays process payments using interface of Ukrainian payment systems. There is only one system in the list right now - Portmone. But the list of acceptable payment systems will grow extremely fast for the plug in. 

PayAllWays has 3 languages in the package - EN, UA, RU at the moment. 

From now there is a way to monetize Moodle courses in Ukraine and we want to make this plugin as something official so everyone can download it from official interface. Can anybody help? 

We've pushed a few pull requests into groupselect but nothing has been accepted and there hasn't been a commit since Nov 2018:

https://github.com/rogerbaba/moodle-mod_groupselect

https://moodle.org/plugins/mod_groupselect

It only has explicit support up to 3.6, so no longer is marked as supporting any current stable:

https://moodle.org/plugins/pluginversions.php?plugin=mod_groupselect

Catalyst would be happy to give it a home, lots of our clients are using it

The plugin "Remote Backup Provider" (https://moodle.org/plugins/local_remote_backup_provider) needs a new maintainer. 

This plugin is currently owned by Lafayette College, but we no longer have the resources available to maintain it. We would be happy to hand it over to any responsible maintainer.

The plugin "Meta-course synchronization to groups" (https://moodle.org/plugins/local_metasync) needs a new maintainer. 

Metasync creates and populates groups in a course based on the enrollment of metalinked courses.

Hi All,

https://moodle.org/plugins/filter_geshi is up for adoption if anyone is interested.

To be honest I think the plugin should be dropped altogether - the underlying library GeShi had the last stable release in 2012.

Looks like the way to go these days for code highlighting is to use JS libraries - eg highlight.js (and  https://moodle.org/plugins/filter_syntaxhighlighter ).

Best regards,
Tomek

I know it takes time to approve the plugin submitted to the plugin directory. No offense but it is been 19 days and no one is assigned to test my plugin. Even those plugins got approval which is submitted after me and some plugins have an assignee to test it. I don't understand this process. My queue is increasing day by day instead of decreasing.

The plugin is Disable Right Click.

As the name can explain it disables right. Also, it disables shortcuts, developer options, etc. It helps to protect the content of the site.

The advantage is admin can control what to disable.

https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-7897

Hello All,

I would like to "force adopt" the OpenMeetings plugin

I do code modifications of the plugin [1] but have no rights to publish new versions

Thanks on advance

[1] https://github.com/openmeetings/openmeetings-moodle-plugin

(Edited by David Mudrák - added link to the plugin, original submission Monday, 25 November 2019, 5:11 AM)

It is here! The Moodle 3.8-beta has been just tagged in the git repository so it is time for the traditional Early bird challenge for the Moodle plugins developers.

Plugins will be awarded with Early bird 3.8 badge if they have a tested working 3.8 compatible version available in three weeks from the beta release on 3rd December 2019 23:59:59 UTC.

Same as before, it is not enough to simply mark you current versions as 3.8 compatible. Plugin maintainers are expected to:

• Test plugins intensively against Moodle 3.8 beta (Behat and PHPUnit tests help a lot).
• Fix all eventually raised warnings, notices, regressions and problems.
• Release a new compatible version in the plugins directory, or mark the existing one as compatible.

We reserve the right to not grant or revoke the award from a plugin if there is a suspicion that it was not tested well. There will be no exceptions for late submissions.

For the growing list of plugins that support the 3.8 version, please see https://moodle.org/plugins/?q=moodle-version:3.8

Thank you in advance for keeping your plugins up-to-date with latest Moodle versions!