diff --git a/linodecli/plugins/README.md b/linodecli/plugins/README.md
index 8d0ab4c34..c199c5daf 100644
--- a/linodecli/plugins/README.md
+++ b/linodecli/plugins/README.md
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ all information the plugin is given during invocation.  This includes the follow
     of the acting user.  This is preferrable to using `requests` or another library
     directly (see below).
 
-### CLI Client
+#### CLI Client
 
 The CLI Client provided as `context.client` can make authenticated API calls on
 behalf of the user using the provided `call_operation` method.  This method is
@@ -48,8 +48,17 @@ invoked with a command and an action, and executes the given CLI command as if
 it were entered into the command line, returning the resulting status code and
 JSON data.
 
-## TODOs
+## Development
 
- - [ ] Test/handle unconfigured invokations
- - [ ] Finish statuspage plugin
- - [ ] Clean up documentation
+To develop a plugin, simply create a python source file in this directory that
+has a `call` function as described above.  To test, simply build the CLI as
+normal (via `make install`) or simply by running `./setup.py install` in the
+root directory of the project (this installs the code without generating new
+baked data, and will only work if you've installed the CLI via `make install`
+at least once, however it's a lot faster).
+
+### Examples
+
+This directory contains two example plugins, `echo.py.example` and
+`regionstats.py.example`.  To run these, simply remove the `.example` at the end
+of the file and build the CLI as described above.
diff --git a/linodecli/plugins/echo.py b/linodecli/plugins/echo.py.example
similarity index 100%
rename from linodecli/plugins/echo.py
rename to linodecli/plugins/echo.py.example
diff --git a/linodecli/plugins/regionstats.py b/linodecli/plugins/regionstats.py.example
similarity index 100%
rename from linodecli/plugins/regionstats.py
rename to linodecli/plugins/regionstats.py.example
diff --git a/linodecli/plugins/statuspage.py b/linodecli/plugins/statuspage.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 023fd2f20..000000000
--- a/linodecli/plugins/statuspage.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,51 +0,0 @@
-"""
-The StatusPage plugin allows querying status.linode.com from the command line!
-This plugin requires BeautifulSoup
-"""
-from requests import get
-from sys import exit
-
-# if this isn't installed, don't blow up
-try:
-    from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
-    HAS_SOUP=True
-except ImportError:
-    HAS_SOUP=False
-
-def call(args, context):
-    """
-    """
-    if not HAS_SOUP:
-        print('The statuspage plugin requires BeautifulSoup.  You must install '
-              'it with `pip install beautifulsoup` before this plugin can be used.')
-        exit(2)
-
-    response = get('https://status.linode.com')
-
-    if response.status_code != 200:
-        # the status page is down? 
-        print('Could not fetch status.linode.com: {}'.format(response.status_code))
-        exit(1)
-
-    page = response.content
-    soup = BeautifulSoup(page, 'html.parser')
-
-    overall_status = soup.find('span', class_='status').text.strip()
-
-    itemized_status = soup.find_all('div', class_='component-inner-container')
-    status_items = []
-
-    for item in itemized_status:
-        # parse the relevant info out of the items
-        is_subitem = 'border-color' not in item.parent.attrs['class']
-        status = item.attrs['data-component-status']
-        name = item.find('span', class_='name').text.strip()
-
-        status_items.append((name, is_subitem, status))
-
-    print(overall_status)
-    print()
-
-    for name, is_subitem, status in status_items:
-        print('{}{}\t{}'.format('+ ' if is_subitem else '', name, status))
-