Creating the manifest file for our plugins

Every extension we want to install in Joomla! needs to have a proper manifest file declaring its properties. We already created a manifest file for our component in Chapter 2 and we created another one for our module in Chapter 7. The manifest file for plugins in Joomla! is very similar to the one we created for modules, in the sense that it includes not only the technical details for the extension, but also the configuration parameters (if any) for the plugin.

A basic manifest file looks as follows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<extension type="plugin" group="PluginType"
    method="upgrade">
    <name>plg_PluginType_PluginName</name>
    <author>Carlos Cámara</author>
    <creationDate>2023-05</creationDate>
    <copyright...