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Admin Panel API for plugins

A Strapi plugin can interact with both the back end and the front end of a Strapi application. The Admin Panel API is about the front end part, i.e. it allows a plugin to customize Strapi's admin panel.

helper-plugin deprecated

In Strapi 5, the `helper-plugin` is deprecated. A whole migration reference is available for plugin developers.

lockIcon replaced by licenseOnly

In Strapi 5, the lockIcon property is replaced by licenseOnly, which affects how the addMenuLink(), addSettingsLink(), and addSettingsLinks() methods from the Admin Panel API work.

Plugin SDK

Reference documentation for Strapi's Plugin SDK commands

Plugins extension

Strapi comes with plugins that can be installed from the Marketplace or as npm packages. You can also create your own plugins (see plugins development) or extend the existing ones.

Plugins upgrade summary

The present page is intended to be used as a short summary of everything to consider if you are a plugin developer upgrading your plugin from Strapi v4 to Strapi 5. The page quickly describes the changes affecting plugins and links to additional resources where necessary.