where can I install plugins for all users?

Hello Todd,

You can copy plugins under the "plugins" folder of the IntelliJ IDEA installation
directory. Then they will be loaded regardless of the current user.

I teach high school and am trying to create a disk image with a few
non-bundled plugins that all the users can access.

How would I install plugins so that all the users would have access to
them?

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For anyone else looking for this, download the plugin's zip file manually from http://plugins.intellij.net/, save the zip file into the $IDEA_HOME/plugins folder and expand it there. (You can then delete the zip file, if you wish.) The plugin is now installed for everybody.

Thanks for the help!
Todd

Installing plugins for all users this way is not working in IntelliJ Community 2020.3.2.  It is only working per user copying to the Appdata profile folder in windows.  Any suggestions?

For recent versions of IntelliJ, the documentation says it is possible to override the plugin location. You can configure idea.plugins.path to point to a shared directory readable by all users.