As our plugins evolve and grow, the number of features will grow as well. Since not all functionality is required in every deployment, allowing administrators to toggle features on and off will make our plugins much more useful for a larger number of installations.

In this chapter, we learned how to take advantage of the built-in settings management functionalities of Redmine and how we can leverage it for our plugins.

In our next chapter, we'll introduce the topic of testing our plugins.