diff --git a/pelicanconf.py b/pelicanconf.py
index 59ad52a..a28b905 100644
--- a/pelicanconf.py
+++ b/pelicanconf.py
@@ -69,3 +69,18 @@ PAGINATION_PATTERNS = (
     (1, '{url}', '{save_as}'),
     (2, '{base_name}/page/{number}/', '{base_name}/page/{number}/index.html'),
 )
+
+# The capsule: the same content over Gemini, Spartan and WAP. smolnet lives in
+# the sites repo because it is not specific to any one site; the Nix builder
+# copies it into plugins/, and the relative path is for working locally with
+# the repos checked out side by side.
+PLUGIN_PATHS = ['plugins', '../sites/plugins']
+PLUGINS = ['smolnet']
+
+# Filed by tag, not category, so there is nothing to index by section and the
+# plugin drops that block rather than offering a single bucket called misc.
+SMOLNET_LATEST = 20
+
+# `era` rather than the category: everything here is Pelican's default `misc`,
+# while era is what the site is actually organised around.
+SMOLNET_META = ['date', 'era']