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authorOndrej Grover <ondrej.grover@gmail.com>2014-11-03 15:30:45 +0100
committerOndrej Grover <ondrej.grover@gmail.com>2014-11-03 21:54:08 +0100
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add notices about caching interfering with changes to settings and plugins
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@@ -20,6 +20,14 @@ Alternatively, another method is to import them and add them to the list::
from package import myplugin
PLUGINS = [myplugin,]
+.. note::
+
+ When experimenting with different plugins (especially the ones that
+ deal with metadata and content) caching may interfere and the
+ changes may not be visible. In such cases disable caching with
+ ``LOAD_CONTENT_CACHE = False`` or use the ``--ignore-cache``
+ command-line switch.
+
If your plugins are not in an importable path, you can specify a list of paths
via the ``PLUGIN_PATHS`` setting. As shown in the following example, paths in
the ``PLUGIN_PATHS`` list can be absolute or relative to the settings file::