Contribute to Grav plugins

When you notice some errors in the Grav plugins you can help fixing them by changing some of the code inside.

When upgrading to Grav 1.7 and PHP 8 it crashed with the DropCaps plugin.

To get this to work I forked the repository and added a contrib directory at the root of my Grav project.

Then I cloned the fork:

cd contrib && git clone git@github.com:DennisdeBest/grav-plugin-dropcaps.git

To get my project to use my fork instead of the plugin I deleted the previous plugin files and created a symlink to my fork

rm -rf user/plugins/dropcap && ln -s contrib/grav-plugin-dropcaps user/plugins/dropcaps

I could then alter the code in the fork I pulled and directly see the changes on my local project.

Once everything worked correctly I pushed the changes to my forked repository and created a pull request on the official plugin repository.

It is pretty simple to participate in the development of Grav plugins so do not hesitate to do so.