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 # Varia website
 
-## Cloning
+## Pelican
 
-The folder 'plugins' is linked to the Pelican project '[pelican-plugins](https://github.com/getpelican/pelican-plugins/)' repository. To clone both the varia.website and pelican-plugins repository, add the --recurse-submodules option in your git clone command:
+The Varia website is made with Pelican, a static site generator written in Python. This means that the website is first generated on a computer (using Python, Jinja and Pelican) into a set of html pages, files and images. This set of documents is then uploaded to the server.
+
+One of the things that Pelican uses is *plugins*. They are used to add extra features to the generation process of the website. 
+
+In this repository there is a folder called 'plugins' and another one called 'plugins-custom'. 
+
+The first one, 'plugins' is linked to the offical collection of plugins from the Pelican project '[pelican-plugins](https://github.com/getpelican/pelican-plugins/)'. The 'plugins-custom' folder consists of plugins that we wrote ourself. 
+
+
+## Clone
+
+To clone both the varia.website and pelican-plugins repository, add the --recurse-submodules option in your git clone command:
 
 `git clone https://git.vvvvvvaria.org/varia/varia.website.git --recurse-submodules`