# I made a plugin, and a gem to help plugin authors

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**Created:** [October 8, 2018, 12:34pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/i-made-a-plugin-and-a-gem-to-help-plugin-authors/2228 "2018-10-08T12:34:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![rbuchberger](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/rbuchberger/32/1413_2.png) [@rbuchberger](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/rbuchberger)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2018, 12:34pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/i-made-a-plugin-and-a-gem-to-help-plugin-authors/2228/1 "2018-10-08T12:34:51Z")

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I made a plugin called [jekyll\_icon\_list](https://github.com/rbuchberger/jekyll_icon_list), which is a custom tag that makes building lists in the icon + label format very easy. It’s useful for things like category tags on a blog post, or technology tags on a portfolio page.

In the course of making this plugin, I also built a tool for generating nice HTML with disorganized, fragmented information in multiple formats. It’s called [objective elements](https://github.com/rbuchberger/objective_elements).

I would love to hear feedback! Let me know if you find either of them useful, there are changes which would make them more so, or if it’s already been done better by someone else and I never should have bothered. Thanks!