musescore / musescore/MuseScore

Plugin/extension documentation is very disorganised, out of date, in many locations

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Since Jul 17, 2026.

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Description

If you're looking to write a plugin/extension, currently it is a real mess to find information:

There is also the separate issue that it seems at some point the term "plugin" was ditched for "extension", except that the UI continues to happily use the term Plugin, which is super confusing.

I know it would be a big project to fix all of this, but maybe a start would be to:

  • remove the wiki pages that are very incomplete and not really adding anything
  • prominently link to the current API docs in many places (including at the top of the 4.x and 3.x plugin pages in the Handbook)
  • reorganise and provide at least a basic high level view of the current state of play in the wiki.

(Related, but not really overlapping: #25703)

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