Welcome to Obsidian.
- Do you enable the installed plugins?
In Obsidian settings (Settings > Community plugins), in the same pane where you installed the plugins, at the bottom you find “Installed plugins”. There you need to enable (or disable) the installed plugins.
When enable, some plugins add a settings pane in Obsidian settings:
- There’s no fixed behavior or icons place for community plugins: some icons appears on left side (near the obsidian core plugins); others don’t have any icon (just commands or similar); others show up in right side pane. For example, by default, Calendar plugin is placed on the top of the right pane, near the outlinks (or tags, outliner, …) icon.
- For each plugin you need to read the respective documentation to understand how they work (documentation in community plugins pane or in respective “GitHub” page):