title: description
---
type: property
---
summary: The human readable plugin description.
---
body:

This is a short string with some more explanation of what the plugin does.
It's shown in the UI to give the user some ideas about its operation.

## Example

```python
from lektor.pluginsystem import Plugin


class MyPlugin(Plugin):
    name = 'My Plugin'
    description = 'This is a small plugin I wrote for testing purposes'
```
