+The main part of the Plugin Manager window is the table where all plugins known
+to Ardour are listed. You can use it to both view information about a plugin and
+control some of its aspects:
+
+<table class="dl">
+ <tr>
+ <th>Status</th>
+ <td>Ardour will displays the status of every plug-in file. See below
+ for more information</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <th>Ign</th>
+ <td>Do not load this plugin file at all</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <th>Fav</th>
+ <td>Set or unset the Favorite status for a plugin</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <th>Hide</th>
+ <td>Load this plugin file, but do not show it in the Plugin Selector</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <th>Type</th>
+ <td>The name of the API this plugin has been built with:
+ VST2, VST3, AU, LADSPA, LV2</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <th>File/ID</th>
+ <td>Displays the file name for LADSPA, VST2, and VST3, as well as
+ the ID for LV2 and AU</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <th>Name</th>
+ <td>User-visible name of the plugin</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <th>Creator</th>
+ <td>Developer of team of developers who created the plugin</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <th>Tags</th>
+ <td>Metadata that classifies the plugin by type,
+ e.g. 'instrument|synth' or 'analyser'</td>
+ </tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>
+ The Status field specifically has the following options:
+</p>
+
+<table class="dl">
+ <tr>
+ <th>OK</th>
+ <td>The plugin file has loaded without any issues and the information
+ in the cache about it is up to date</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <th>New</th>
+ <td>The plugin file has just been discovered and successfully loaded
+ for the first time</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <th>Updated</th>
+ <td>The plugin file changed on the disk, the plugin cache has been updated
+ accordingly, the plugin file loaded successfully</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <th>Concealed</th>
+ <td>A VST2 plugin will be hidden from Plugin Selector, if a corresponding
+ VST3 plugin exists. The same applies to LV1 (LADSPA) and LV2</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <th>Error</th>
+ <td>There was a problem loading the plugin file</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <th>Stale</th>
+ <td>A plugin changed on the disk but hasn't been re-scanned
+ by Ardour yet</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <th>Incompatible</th>
+ <td>Scan the plugin failed. Typical reasons are 32/64-bit mismatch,
+ attempt to load a .dll on Linux or a .dylib on Windows</td>
+ </tr>
+</table>
+