🔧📌 Pinned Modifiers for Blender

Pinned Modifiers is a Blender add-on designed to speed up our modeling workflow. It allows us to select our most frequently used modifiers and pin them directly to the "Add Modifier" menu for one-click access.

✨ Features

• Pin Any Modifier: Toggle which modifiers you want to appear in your quick-access list.
• Custom Reordering: Use the [ ⤒ | ↑ | ↓ | ⤓ ] UI controls to arrange your pinned modifiers in the order you want.
• Persistent Settings: Your configuration is written to a JSON file. Settings permanently survive Blender restarts, add-on reloads, and updates.
• Export / Import: Easily back up your personalized modifier stack or share your layout across multiple workstations and operating systems.
• Reset to Defaults: Messed up your list? Restore the default configuration with a single click. Just remember to export your settings, in case you want to restore them later!
• Cross-Platform: Works flawlessly on Linux, Windows, and macOS.

⚙️ Compatibility

• Supported: Blender 4.3 -> 5.1.1+
• Supported with caveats: Blender 4.2 (pinned Geometry Nodes based modifiers won't work, path changed)
• Not Supported: Blender 3.6 LTS and older. (This add-on relies on the dynamic "Add Modifier" menu system introduced in Blender 4.0).

📥 Installation

Drag and Drop

1. Download the latest pinned-modifiers.zip file from the Releases page, and drop it into Blender.

Legacy Method

1. go to Edit > Preferences > Add-ons
2. Click Install... in the top right corner and select the downloaded file.
3. Enable the checkbox next to Interface: Pinned Modifiers.

✏️ How to Use

Video tutorial:

1. Navigate to Edit > Preferences > Add-ons and expand the Pinned Modifiers add-on menu.
2. check the boxes for your favorite modifiers, and reorder them at your liking from the section at the bottom.
3. The Reorder Pinned Modifiers section will populate with the chosen modifiers. Use the arrows to set your preferred vertical order.
4. Close the preferences. Open the Modifiers Tab and click Add Modifier. Your pinned modifiers will be sitting right at the top!

📂 Where are my settings saved?

Your preferences are saved locally to a lightweight .json file inside your user configuration folder. The exact path for your specific operating system is displayed at the top of the add-on preferences panel.

❤️ Support & Links

If this add-on saves you time and improves your Blender workflow, please consider supporting my open-source work!

• ☕ Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/frayoshi
• 💸 PayPal: paypal.me/FrancescoGobbo
• 🪢 GitHub: github.com/sponsors/FraYoshi or click on the ♥️ heart shaped sponsor icon.
• 🔗 More Ways to Support: furayoshi.com/support
• 🌐 Homepage: furayoshi.com
• 🗨️ Discord: furayoshi.com/discord

🐛 Bug Reports & Feature Requests

Found a bug or have an idea to make this add-on better? Please open an issue on the GitHub Issues page.

How to build the add-on

Linux

1. clone it
2. be sure to have git LFS installed if adding media
3. make modifications
4. have a clean blender environment, or prepend XDG_CONFIG_HOME=/some/dir to the commands below
5. validate the modifications: blender --command extension validate
6. build the package: blender --command extension build