clean out the theme/plugins folder
diff --git a/pelicanconf.yaml b/pelicanconf.yaml
index ae38dc4..55a0670 100644
--- a/pelicanconf.yaml
+++ b/pelicanconf.yaml
@@ -8,11 +8,11 @@
 
 theme: theme/apache
 
-plugins:
-  paths:
-    - theme/plugins
-  use:
-    - gfm
+# plugins:
+#  paths:
+#    - theme/plugins
+#  use:
+#    - gfm
 
 setup:
   data: asfdata.yaml
diff --git a/theme/plugins/README.md b/theme/plugins/README.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 2f8099c..0000000
--- a/theme/plugins/README.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,71 +0,0 @@
-# Plugin Architecture
-
-The plugins used operate at various points in a pelican build.
-Pelican uses signals at various points. These are documented [here](https://docs.getpelican.com/en/latest/plugins.html#list-of-signals).
-At a high level consider the following sequence of events:
-
-1. Pelican Settings. Settings for a Pelican Build are in your [Pelican Configuration](../../pelicanconf.py)
-
-   ```python
-   PLUGIN_PATHS = ['./theme/plugins']
-   PLUGINS = ['asfgenid', 'asfshell', 'asfdata', 'pelican-gfm', 'asfreader', 'asfcopy']
-   ```
-
-2. Init (initialized). At this point any ASF_DATA is read into a metadata dictionary made available in every page.
-
-   - The [asfdata plugin](./asfdata.py) reads an .asfdata.yaml file and creates the metadata dictionary.
-
-   ```python
-   ASF_DATA_YAML = ".asfdata.yaml"
-   ASF_DATA = {
-        'data': ASF_DATA_YAML,
-        'metadata': { },
-        'debug': True
-   }
-   ```
-
-   - The [asfgenid plugin](./asfgenid.py) configures its features.
-
-   ```python
-   ASF_GENID = {
-       'metadata': True,
-       'elements': True,
-       'headings': True,
-       'permalinks': True,
-       'toc': True,
-       'toc_headers': r"h[1-6]",
-       'debug': False
-   }
-   ```
-
-   - The [asfshell plugin](./asfshell.py) runs shell scripts as found in your [Pelican Configuration](../../pelicanconf.py)
-
-   ```python
-   ASF_SHELL = [
-       '/bin/bash shell.sh'
-   ]
-   ```
-
-3. Readers (readers_init). Two important readers are set at this point. Readers are responsible for transforming page files to html and
-    providing a metadata dictionary
-    - GFMReader by the pelican-gfm plugin. This code is in a private repository - ask Infra. Transforms GitHub Flavored Markdown(GFM) to HTML.
-        * .md
-        * .markdown
-        * .mkd
-        * .mdown
-    - ASFReader by the [asfreader plugin](./asfreader.py). Transforms an [ezt template](https://github.com/gstein/ezt) into GFM and then to HTML.
-        * .ezmd
-
-4. Content Init (content_object_init). This is signaled after a Reader has processed content.
-    At this point plugins can review, record, and transform the html content.
-    - The [asfgenid plugin](./asfgenid.py) performs a number of steps. Some of the steps are optional.
-        * Metadata transformation by looking up {{ key_expression }} in the page metadata.
-        * Inventory of existing id attributes.
-        * Set id and class attributes specified by {#id} and {.class} syntax.
-        * Assign id to all headings without ids.
-        * Insert a Table of Contents if a [TOC] tag is present.
-
-5. Finalization (finalized). This is signalled after all content is generated and static files copied.
-   At this point additional content can be copied and the final output analyzed.
-   - The [asfcopy plugin](.asfcopy.py) is an example. Here is copies files from the source tree.
-     It could be modified to copy information in from external sources too.