In this chapter, I wanted to share my experience of searching for functional Redmine plugins, as I personally find this process quite complicated and, most likely, you won't be able to avoid using plugins. In other words, I wanted you to feel easy about finding and installing the plugins that you'll need.
To demonstrate what can be done with plugins, we reviewed some of them. Of course, we have still ignored many interesting, useful, and popular ones, but the goal of this chapter was not to review all of them (as this chapter would be too huge). I wanted to draw your attention to some of the plugins to show what interesting things can be done with them.
I assume that you have searched for and found plugins that you will use, and you have already chosen and installed a theme that will become the face of your Redmine installation. If you have done this, you have just done the basic customization that gets done by everyone who uses Redmine. The next chapter is about advanced customization...