# Plugin registration

**URL:** <https://gramps.discourse.group/t/plugin-registration/3254>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [February 6, 2023, 3:23pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/plugin-registration/3254 "2023-02-06T15:23:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![emyoulation](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/gramps.discourse.group/emyoulation/32/67_2.png) [@emyoulation](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/emyoulation)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2021, 4:33pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/plugin-registration/3254/7 "2021-10-24T16:33:49Z")

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Aftering experimenting with the Gramplet flavored `.gpr.py` file and looking through the [Gramplets authoring](https://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php/Gramplets#Register_Options) wiki article and [API docs](https://www.gramps-project.org/docs/gen/gen_plug.html#module-gramps.gen.plug._pluginreg), some questions remain.

From the wiki:

> If the `help_url` starts with `http://` then that fully qualified URL will be used as is. Otherwise, the paths will be interpreted as relative to `http://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=` **base URL**. The **base URL** will be prepended to the `help_url` and may get a language extension (such as `/nl` ) appended at the end, if the operating language is one of nl fr sq mk de fi ru sk. You should not use the \_( ) translate function around the `help_url` string, unless you specifically intend to create web pages named with the translated string.

Is there a way to point the help to a `.md` markdown document in the Gramplet’s current User Directory subfolder?

If so, could my Gramplet updates freshen user docs through the Plugin Manager in the same way as the plug-in code?

_ **see also** _  
Discourse threads:

- [Re-targeting missing online Help](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/re-targeting-missing-online-help/765)
- [Standardized Help links](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/standardized-help-links/2786)

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