# Supported Plugins

One of the nicest things about &digikam; is how easily its functionality can be extended, by using plugins. The Kipi project is dedicated to develop a plugin interface for &digikam;. Plugins setup is described in this section.

The &digikam; plugins interface

Plugins are dedicated mostly to export and import images with remote web services. Their advantage is, that it is much easier to add a capability to &digikam; by writing a small plugin than by modifying the &digikam; core.