Minecraft plugin PlugMan

🔌 About PlugMan

PlugMan is a Minecraft plugin that provides runtime management of other plugins from the server console or in-game (with appropriate privileges). It is intended for server administrators and developers who need to inspect, list, and perform basic enable/disable/load/reload operations on installed plugins without restarting the server.

🎯 Purpose

PlugMan's core purpose is plugin management and inspection: it removes the need for frequent server restarts when performing simple plugin administration tasks, and it provides information about installed plugins (versions, authors, registered commands).

⚙️ Features

• Enable, disable, load, unload and reload plugins at runtime (commands for managing plugin state).
• List installed plugins alphabetically, optionally with version information.
• Show information about a specific plugin (authors, version, commands registered).
• List which plugin registers a given command.
• Tab completion for plugin names and commands.
• Dump a plugin list (with versions) to a file.
• Optional update check that compares an installed plugin to the version on dev.bukkit.org.

🧩 Who It Is For

• Server owners and administrators who need quick runtime control over plugins.
• Developers and plugin authors who want to inspect registered commands and plugin metadata without restarting.

🏗️ Example Use Cases

• An admin disables a problematic plugin without restarting the server to diagnose issues.
• A developer lists which plugin registered a specific command to troubleshoot conflicts.
• Exporting a list of installed plugins and versions for auditing or migration.

⌨️ Commands

(Note: the plugin's official documentation lists more management commands for enabling/disabling/reloading individual plugins; the table above shows commands explicitly documented by the project.)

⚙️ Installation

📥 Setup

• Download the official PlugMan JAR and place it into your server's plugins/ directory.
• Restart the server so the plugin loads and creates its initial files.
• Check server console/logs to confirm PlugMan loaded correctly.

🧠 Technical Notes

• PlugMan is open-source and distributed under the MIT license.
• The project historically required Java 7 or newer to run.
• Commands and other operations default to operator privileges (OP) unless a permissions setup is provided; by default most commands require OP.
• Last known project releases were published to community plugin catalogs and the project has multiple forks and derivatives; consult the plugin distribution page you downloaded from for exact version compatibility.

🤝 When This Plugin Is Useful

If you need in-server tools to inspect installed plugins, identify which plugin registers a command, or perform simple enable/disable/reload operations without a full server restart, PlugMan provides those runtime management capabilities in a compact, open-source package.