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Extending Mura CMS with Plug-Ins

I've been using Mura CMS on and off for the past few months, trying to integrate a bunch of functionality from an existing site into a Mura installation. At first it was a fairly daunting task, as although Mura is an excellent tool which is easily extendible, it is also quite complicated and there is not a heck of a lot of documentation available for back end development. I was lucky enough to get some help from Matt Levine, the architect and lead developer, who helped me get an understanding of the plug-in architecture, after which I was able to integrate much of my existing functionality into Mura.

Blue River has made a start at producing some back end development documentation, and I decided to attempt to help the cause by documenting what I've learned about developing plug-ins for Mura. To that end I'm starting a series about extending Mura with plug-ins. This first entry will be an introduction to plug-ins. I plan to follow it up with articles containing much more detail. As I'm about to head off for three week's vacation in beautiful British Columbia, those additional articles will not appear until some time in July.

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