On Apr 03, Michael Masterson says:

I got to this page from the Installed Plugins area on the site I admin by clicki...

I got to this page from the Installed Plugins area on the site I admin by clicking "More about plugins." I was trying to learn more about how plugins work, from a site admin point of view, cause my first try with installing a plugin is giving me an error. But this page seems to be aimed at plugin developers, so I thought I'd mention what explanations seems missing for someone starting with plugins. I hope this is helpful.

Repository vs. installed vs. loaded vs. enabled.
Repository vs. Confluence extensions space.
Basic general outline of steps for installing and using a plugin (browse, choose, install, config, test, whatever, etc.) and where one goes for each.
What to do when an error occurs on first installation (ticket with Confluence? go to developer?...)
Where do the four Categories in the chart come from/what do they mean?
What is meant by each of the Storage locations? (what is database? are those folders on the server? etc.)

A reply from Support Engineer:

Hello Michael,

Thank you for letting us know your concern. I believe that part of your questions can be answered by this [page|Installing Plugins and Macros] and its children. Meanwhile, I have created a task for our technical writer to review this issue.

Cheers,
Azwandi