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Configuring dotCMS Properties

The plugins provide a great way of configuring the dotCMS. You can configure any property with the dotmarketing.properties, portal.properties, or the system.properties. In the past the config of these files usually happened within the dotCMS in the *-ext version of the file. Within your plugin the property files all have the -ext on them and live under the conf directory. Any properties configured will override or comment out the previous value and add the value within your plugin. This is where your plugin load order might matter. When possible it is nice to keep your configuration in one plugin which should be the last one to load. This is achieved by placing it first in the plugins.xml file.