Plugins

Quartz’s functionality is provided by a collection of first-party community plugins. Each plugin can be enabled, disabled, and configured via quartz.config.yaml. See Configuration for details on how to manage plugins.

Internal vs Community Plugins

Quartz has two kinds of plugins:

• Community plugins are standalone repositories under quartz-community. In TS overrides, they use ExternalPlugin.X() (imported from .quartz/plugins).
• Internal plugins are built into Quartz core (Assets, Static, ComponentResources, NotFoundPage). In TS overrides, they use Plugin.X() (imported from ./quartz/plugins).

Plugin types

Quartz plugins fall into several categories:

• Transformers process content during the build, e.g. parsing frontmatter, highlighting syntax, or resolving links.
• Filters decide which content files to include or exclude from the output.
• Page Types generate HTML pages — one per content file, folder, tag, canvas, or bases view.
• Components render UI elements in the page layout (sidebars, headers, footers, etc.).

First-party plugins

Multi-category plugins

Some plugins span multiple categories. TableOfContents is both a transformer and a component. EncryptedPages is a transformer, emitter, and component. They appear in each relevant category above.