One of the benefits to using an open source software solution is that many users are working together to make the software do as much if not more than any paid solution. Sometimes there may be features that most users of the software may not need, but a lot would like to have. In these cases, it is good to make sure that your software has a plugin system so that users can customize the installation to their needs.
As we saw in the previous section, Piwik does have such a plugin system. In fact, many of the features of your standard Piwik installation are plugins themselves and can be deactivated whenever you need, such as the Feedback plugin we just deactivated in the previous section. There are even some example plugins installed with Piwik to give developers something to start with.
Other plugins available for Piwik are listed on the official Piwik website. There is a list of some of these plugins as well as plugins for CMSs available at...