Tips, updates, and guides from the JellyWatch team.
From metadata providers to UI enhancements, from Discord integrations to smart cleanup tools - discover the best Jellyfin plugins available in 2026. A complete guide to extending your server.
Transform your Jellyfin experience with the best quality-of-life plugins. This guide covers Intro Skipper, Chapter Images, Merge Versions, Playback Reporting, and other must-have plugins not in the standard list.
Protect your Jellyfin configuration, metadata, watch history, and plugins with a solid backup strategy. This guide covers manual backups, automated scripts, Docker volume snapshots, and full disaster recovery.
Unify login across Jellyfin, Radarr, Sonarr, and Jellyseerr with Authentik or Authelia SSO. This guide covers the jellyfin-plugin-sso OIDC configuration, Docker Compose for both identity providers, two-factor authentication, and protecting your entire self-hosted media stack with a single identity.
Transform your Jellyfin interface with custom themes. This guide covers the best Jellyfin themes in 2026, how to install the Skin Manager plugin, and how to apply JellyFlix, Monochrome, and more.
Is Jellyfin using 100% CPU? Learn every cause of high CPU usage in Jellyfin - transcoding, metadata scans, plugins, and idle spikes - and how to fix each one.
Build a Jellyfin server from scratch in 2026 - hardware selection, Docker installation, plugin setup, 4K HDR configuration, reverse proxy, and monitoring. Everything you need to go from zero to streaming in one guide.
Build the ultimate anime library on Jellyfin. This guide covers Shoko Server integration (hash-based identification, 99% accuracy), AniList and MAL sync with jellyfin-ani-sync, the AnimeMultiSource metadata plugin, handling absolute numbering and OVAs, and the best file naming strategies for anime.
