# The plugin quick start doesn't work

**URL:** <https://forum.shopware.com/t/the-plugin-quick-start-doesnt-work/28682>\
**Category:** Shopware 3.5\
**Tags:** general\
**Created:** [6. Juli 2015 um 12:34 UTC](https://forum.shopware.com/t/the-plugin-quick-start-doesnt-work/28682 "2015-07-06T12:34:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![numediaweb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/dc4da7/32.png) [@numediaweb](https://forum.shopware.com/u/numediaweb)\
**Post date:** [6. Juli 2015 um 12:34 UTC](https://forum.shopware.com/t/the-plugin-quick-start-doesnt-work/28682/1 "2015-07-06T12:34:52Z")

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I’m running Shopware 5 on localhost on a windows 7 machine. I followed the steps on the plugin quick start but I couldn’t see the results displayed on the front end. I switched back and forth the Bar theme and Responsive theme but none of them was able to show the Slogan widget in the front-end. I even deleted my plugin and used the one you provided but it also didn’t work! When directly modifying the template index.tpl I can see the slogans busing:this code: [code]

{$slogan}  
[/code] However, the `{block name="frontend\_index\_navigation\_categories\_top\_include" prepend}` doesn’t do anything. I checked the logs and couldn’t see anything suspicious ☹

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**Author:** ![Benjamin\_Cremer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a8b319/32.png) [@Benjamin\_Cremer](https://forum.shopware.com/u/Benjamin_Cremer)\
**Post date:** [7. Juli 2015 um 07:50 UTC](https://forum.shopware.com/t/the-plugin-quick-start-doesnt-work/28682/2 "2015-07-07T07:50:36Z")

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Hi, as already mentioned in the [Issue on GitHub](https://github.com/shopware/devdocs/issues/87#issuecomment-118842105), Shopware requires a Linux system to run on. Greetings, Benjamin Cremer :shopware:

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**Author:** ![numediaweb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/dc4da7/32.png) [@numediaweb](https://forum.shopware.com/u/numediaweb)\
**Post date:** [7. Juli 2015 um 11:37 UTC](https://forum.shopware.com/t/the-plugin-quick-start-doesnt-work/28682/3 "2015-07-07T11:37:10Z")

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Thanks Benjamin. The shop/plugin is limited to work on Linux server only, this is why it didn’t work correctly on a Windows platform! I don’t know if this is a good decision to limit PHP software to work only on a platform. ☹ At least, it would be great to show a BIG notification when running the shop on Windows machine so developers can debug why the shop isn’t working! Thanks for your help.

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**Author:** ![tarkka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@tarkka](https://forum.shopware.com/u/tarkka)\
**Post date:** [8. Juli 2015 um 13:32 UTC](https://forum.shopware.com/t/the-plugin-quick-start-doesnt-work/28682/4 "2015-07-08T13:32:34Z")

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I’ve been using Windows PC for Shopware plugin development for a year and never had any problems so far. You can choose a little different approach for extending templates. 1. Find these lines in Bootstrap.php (~55 line): `$view-\>addTemplateDir( \_\_DIR\_\_ . '/Views' );` 2. Below those lines add this: `$view-\>extendsTemplate('frontend/plugins/slogan\_of\_the\_day/index.tpl');` 3. Change directory structure: Original /Views/frontend/index/index.tpl Changed /Views/frontend/plugins/slogan\_of\_the\_day/index.tpl If you’ll look at some of existing Shopware plugins, they use same approach for extending templates. It works on Windows and Linux. You can download updated quick start plugin [here](http://tarkka.ch/files/downloads/tarkka%5C_SwagSloganOfTheDay.zip)

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**Author:** ![jenskl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@jenskl](https://forum.shopware.com/u/jenskl)\
**Post date:** [23. Dezember 2015 um 15:25 UTC](https://forum.shopware.com/t/the-plugin-quick-start-doesnt-work/28682/5 "2015-12-23T15:25:19Z")

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Hello Tarkka, thanks a lot for your post. It helped me to run this plugin. I do run SW on Windows too. Thanks jenskl