Hello! Perhaps it will be convenient for many to create categories in the plugins section. And in the community, plugins are also divided into categories. When posting a plugin in a community, be sure to select one of the categories.
Categories in plugins!
Hey @Feedlike, thanks for sharing this idea! I agree we could definitely make plugin management/usage better. 🙂
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- Figma has tons of useful plugins. But they get displayed as a list. If you have too many it becomes a mess.
It should be possible to create groups of plugins (maybe even subgroups) to declutter the list. For instance: Color > Accessiility Checkers, Palette Makers…
I have a lot of plugins. Some of them I use all the time. I want to create folders and put plugins which I seldom use into it. It will organize my plugins more)
This would be a great addition – some plugins have a descpription but a few only use their product name. After a while I don’t know what said plugin does for me.
Nothing to report back with at the moment. Discovery, categorization, etc. for plugins and community files are all things the team is thinking through though. 🙂
The way Figma works and organizes the plugin list is terrible. Looks there are no criteria.
Also, a simple dropdown/list is way too basic to manage dozen of plugins.
Huge list, no icons, no way to fast identify each plugin.
The same for the plugin store.
Most plugins don’t have a screenshot to demonstrate (at least) the interface.
You have to install it, find it on a list of plugins and if you don’t like it, you have to go again on that list, click to manage the plugin, and find it again on another list. So finally you can uninstall it.
There is no way to sort the list, the order is not by date, by name, or by use.
I believe this could be solved using a sidebar/window with a button to open/activate/close/deactivate each one ofthe plugins.
Does anyone else experience this? Is anyone using a plugin or workaround to help solve this?
There is no way to sort the list, the order is not by date, by name, or by use.
That’s not true. The plugins list is sorted alphabetically by name and the list under Settings => Plugins is sorted by install date, meaning newly installed plugins will pop up at the bottom.
But yes, I agree, they should allow custom sorting or even “Plugin folders” where you can sort your plugins into folders.
As far as I can see, the problem is still relevant today. It is strange that there are so few votes in the topic. It’s a daily pain for me when I’m working in Figma and open my list of plugins. I hope this topic still deserves enough attention from the development team and we will see a solution. After all, there are many advanced designers in the community! Maybe conduct some kind of survey to identify possible solutions?
Being able to categorize plugins would be a great feature!
IMO plugins should have their own panel rather than just having them listed on a menu.
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I’d love this! The way the most recently used plugin jumps to the top of the list actually throws me off really badly. If I were in control of the ordering I’d have a much easier time finding what I’m looking for!
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Highly needed once you start install many plugins.
We can create sections for projects. We should be able to create custom sections for plugins. There are already 3 categories (Recent, Saved, Development) so it just needs the ability to create custom ones.
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Gods, I can’t believe Figma developers still didn’t implement this! That seems as a very easy task and I just hate their ignorance about the topic!
Figma please! There are so many basic tools missing from the native app that plugins are the only solution to. Having to navigate a massive list to access these tools is very inefficient. I would love to have the freedom to categorize them like a bookmarks list in chrome. Or even better, let us create a custom dashboard with plugins that stays stuck to the toolbar 😉
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yes! this would be awesome
it’s a little crazy they haven’t yet
Possibilidade de separação dos Plugins em pastas, que poderiam ser em tituladas por seu usuário.
If users could create persistent plugin panels, we could build our own UIs for organizing plugins. A plugin manager was the first thing I created when Flash panels were added to Fireworks like 20 years ago…
Is there any news on this feature?
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