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This guide helps you through the process of managing your plugins, from starting out, to testing all the way through to release. This guide is split out to help guide you through a number of key concepts:
  • Creating your plugins
  • Configuring plugin authentication
  • Testing your plugins
  • Activating your plugins
  • Managing your existing plugins

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Configuring plugin authentication

Before you can start creating plugins, you need to select and set up your authorization strategy for your plugins to let Kit know how to fetch the content needed to let creators use your apps. We currently offer 2 options:
If you require linking of third-party accounts or are sharing sensitive information, we currently only support OAuth authentication. This option will likely be the default for most applications, needing to pull data from a third-party account for the creator in a vast number of use cases. More details on OAuth authorization for plugins can be found in the dedicated OAuth guide.
If you are working with public APIs, don’t need to pull any confidential information and are happy to have the content endpoints open, you can select “No authorization”. This can also be used temporarily to test our functionality before committing development time into building out an OAuth flow.