diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 7f46d53e013b08d9026d334d26a656f49cb64b65..86b103dc9a0f739840212e2169c6c4cce1acd3cb 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
 [submodule "themes/teckids"]
 	path = themes/teckids
 	url = https://edugit.org/Teckids/team-pr/pelican-theme-teckids
+[submodule "plugins"]
+	path = plugins
+	url = https://github.com/getpelican/pelican-plugins
diff --git a/plugins b/plugins
new file mode 160000
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4a0e49edf6647968dc417baa47cb2b95a1200422
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 4a0e49edf6647968dc417baa47cb2b95a1200422