diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index fc0f27c..e69de29 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-[submodule "plugins"]
-	path = plugins
-	url = https://github.com/getpelican/pelican-plugins.git
diff --git a/plugins b/plugins
deleted file mode 160000
index 4437398..0000000
--- a/plugins
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit 443739890a96125f4cfa796972a7b53119df89ff