The First Third Party Plug-in
Less than 24 hours after we launched, we received the first third-party plug-in submission, from the very talented photographer Jasper van der Meij. It’s really impressive, because he figured it all out just from looking at existing plug-ins, and even added his own nicely designed artwork.
If you’re looking to write your own plug-in, have a look at the installed ones in ~/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Plug-ins. If you’re writing a plug-in that works with a Flash or Silverlight site, you’ll also need to add a site configuration into ~/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Site Configurations (see existing ones in ~/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Plug-ins/SiteConfigurations.bundle/Contents/Resources). The Plex Media Server automagically picks up changes so you don’t need to restart it while you’re developing, although you may want to run it inside Terminal to see the debug output.
I promise that we’ll have tutorials and documentation in short order, but these plug-ins are very easy to write, especially if you know Python and understand XPATH. We also have a new forum for the discussion of plug-in development.
Let’s see what you can come up with!
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Thanks for the feature
Cool!
Very nice photos Jasper! I want some of your photos in plex can I download .. where?
@Cosycat: Head to the Plex App Store, his plug-in is available there.
Yes I can view the pictures but how can I set Background in plex from his plug-in?
Going to try and bang out an abc.com one this evening… Doubt i’ll be very succesful, but hopefully I’ll make SOME progress.
@CharlesV: We are working on an abc.com plugin–needs some under-the-hood work to complete, hopefully soon!
@Cosycat Thanks! That is a nice feature request
For now I can give you some images to put on your background. Drop me an email 
I just finished a plug-in for my wife’s photography site. Where do i submit it?