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Plugin Name Description Clients hire agencies and freelancers to develop fully-custom themes for their website. Designers create mockups, developers build these mockups out to spec, and before long, the site is live. What we sometimes fail to recognize in the process is that, although the theme is custom, many of the components that comprise it are a reimagining of a component that was developed in a previous project. Web users have come to expect certain kinds of functionality on a site and, as a result, a variety of design patterns have emerged. Developers have a tendency to recreate these patterns from scratch each time we take on a new project: image carousels, FAQ accordions, huge banner areas with headlines and calls to actions, featured links, and so on. The goal of the Dudley plugin is to simplify the process. Instead of building everything from scratch, what if we reused some of the most common patterns, so that we could instead focus our efforts on the parts of a site that are truly custom? This plugin provides out-of-the-box access to a series of packages for developers to install. Generally, these packages should contain the following: - Code that defines the meta f