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 The Elasticsearch repository contains examples of:
 
-* a https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/tree/master/plugins/custom-settings[Java plugin]
+* a https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/tree/master/plugins/examples/custom-settings[Java plugin]
   which contains a plugin with custom settings.
-* a https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/tree/master/plugins/rest-handler[Java plugin]
+* a https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/tree/master/plugins/examples/rest-handler[Java plugin]
   which contains a plugin that registers a Rest handler.
 * a https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/tree/master/plugins/examples/rescore[Java plugin]
   which contains a rescore plugin.