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+Plugin List
+===========
+
+OpenLP has many plugins you can activate. By default, all plugins are enabled, 
+except the Remote Access plugin. A plugin adds features and functionality to 
+OpenLP.
+
+To see which plugins are enabled select :menuselection:`Setttings --> Plugin List`
+or :kbd:`Alt+F7`
+
+.. image:: pics/plugin_list_main.png
+
+Plugin Details
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+The left side shows you the list of plugins. Click on a plugin to check its 
+status.
+
+**Status:** This shows if your plugin is Active or Inactive. Click the box to 
+change the status and click  :kbd:`OK` to save your selection.
+
+**Version:** This is the version of the plugin. 
+
+**About:** This is the description of the plugin.
+
+For a brief description of what each plugin does, please see below.
+
+|songs| **Songs Plugin** 
+    The songs plugin provides the ability to display and manage songs.
+
+|bibles| **Bible Plugin**
+    The Bible plugin provides the ability to display Bible verses from different
+    sources during the service.
+
+|presentations| **Presentation Plugin**
+    the presentation plugin provides the ability to show presentations using a 
+    number of different programs. The choice of available presentation programs
+    is available to the user in a drop down box.
+
+|images| **Image Plugin**
+    The image plugin provides displaying of images. One of the distinguishing
+    features of this plugin is the ability to group a number of images together
+    in the service manager, making the displaying of multiple images easier. 
+    This plugin can also make use of OpenLP's "timed looping" feature to create 
+    a slide show that runs automatically. In addition to this, images from the 
+    plugin can be used to override the current theme's background, which renders 
+    text-based items like songs with the selected image as a background instead 
+    of the background provided by the theme. See the section on :ref:`adding_images`.
+
+|media| **Media Plugin**
+    The media plugin provides playback of audio and video.
+
+|custom| **Custom Slide Plugin**
+    The custom slide plugin provides the ability to set up custom text slides
+    that can be displayed on the screen the same way songs are. This plugin 
+    provides greater freedom over the songs plugin.
+
+|songusage| **SongUsage Plugin**
+    This plugin tracks the usage of songs in services.
+
+|alerts| **Alerts Plugin**
+    The alert plugin controls the displaying of nursery alerts on the display
+    screen. See :ref:`alerts` for more information
+
+|remote| **Remote Plugin**
+    The remote plugin provides the ability to send messages to a running version
+    of OpenLP on a different computer via a web browser or through the remote API.
+    See the section on :ref:`remote_tab`.
+
+.. These are all the image templates that are used in this page.
+
+.. |ALERTS| image:: pics/plugin_alerts.png
+.. |BIBLES| image:: pics/plugin_bibles.png
+.. |CUSTOM| image:: pics/plugin_custom.png
+.. |IMAGES| image:: pics/plugin_images.png
+.. |MEDIA| image:: pics/plugin_media.png
+.. |PRESENTATIONS| image:: pics/plugin_presentations.png
+.. |REMOTE| image:: pics/plugin_remote.png
+.. |SONGS| image:: pics/plugin_songs.png
+.. |SONGUSAGE| image:: pics/plugin_songusage.png