# New way of working of developing plugins

**URL:** <https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/new-way-of-working-of-developing-plugins/333444>\
**Category:** Plugins\
**Tags:** unreal-engine, Plugins, Visual-Studio, UE4, CPP, question\
**Created:** [September 26, 2015, 10:50am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/new-way-of-working-of-developing-plugins/333444 "2015-09-26T10:50:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Yata](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@Yata](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Yata)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 10:57am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/new-way-of-working-of-developing-plugins/333444/2 "2015-09-26T10:57:55Z")

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Why are you developing a plugin? I recently was working on a Plugin, but decided to fallback to and Editor Module. It is more robust and simple.

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still it provides the same possibilities of extending the editor, I think.

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