Publishing your extension to the Marketplace

You can publish any extension you build to the PlugThis Marketplace, where other users can find it, download it or clone it.

How to publish

Open My Extensions, find the extension, and click the globe icon on its card. You will be asked to pick a category: Productivity, Developer Tools, Shopping, Utility, Education, Social, Lifestyle or Custom. Choose one and click Publish Now.

It appears in the Marketplace straight away. There is no review step.

How to unpublish

Click the same globe icon again. The extension moves back to unpublished and comes off the Marketplace. Nothing else about it changes.

What other people see

Your extension's name, description and category, the files it contains, its source code, and a live preview. Your display name is shown as the creator, which you can change in Settings.

What they can do with it

Download it as a ZIP, or clone it into their own account and modify it. Anyone can download; cloning needs an account.

Think before you publish

Publishing makes the source code public. That is the point of the Marketplace, and it is worth being clear-eyed about:

• Do not publish something you intend to sell on the Chrome Web Store. Once the code is public, anyone can take it.

• Check nothing private is in there. API keys belong in your settings rather than in the code.

• Client work is usually not yours to publish. Check before you do.

When it makes sense

Something you built for yourself that others would find useful, a demonstration of what you can do, or something you are happy to give away. It is a good shop window if you take on client work.