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diff --git a/archiva-docs/src/site/apt/customising/writing-consumer.apt b/archiva-docs/src/site/apt/customising/writing-consumer.apt
index e61e95666..7e2d896cc 100644
--- a/archiva-docs/src/site/apt/customising/writing-consumer.apt
+++ b/archiva-docs/src/site/apt/customising/writing-consumer.apt
@@ -1,8 +1,87 @@
  ------
- Writing a Custom Repository Consumer
+ Writing a Consumer Plugin
  ------
+ Maria Odea Ching
+ ------
+ 23 Nov 2007
+ ------
+
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+~~
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+
+~~ NOTE: For help with the syntax of this file, see:
+~~ http://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-apt-format.html
+
+Writing a Consumer Plugin
+
+ For a sample custom consumer, you can checkout the archiva-consumer-plugin at the archiva sandbox in the SVN repository:
+
++----+
+http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/sandbox/trunk/archiva/archiva-consumer-plugin
++----+
+
+ Below are the steps on how to create a custom repository consumer and plug it in Archiva:
+
+ [[1]] Create a project for your component.
+
+ [[2]] Declare your class or in this case, consumer as a component as shown in the example below. This
+   should be put at the class level.
+
++----+
+Ex.
+@plexus.component role="org.apache.maven.archiva.consumers.KnownRepositoryContentConsumer"
+                  role-hint="discover-new-artifact"
+                  instantiation-strategy="per-lookup"
+
+where,
+  role: the interface that your class implements
+  role-hint: the lookup name of the component (your class/consumer)
+  instantiation-strategy: how your class will be instantiated
++----+
+
+ [[3]] Make sure to add the snippet below in the <build> section of the project's pom. This is needed to
+   generate the components.xml.
+
++----+
+<plugin>
+  <groupId>org.codehaus.plexus</groupId>
+  <artifactId>plexus-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+  <version>1.3.5</version>
+  <executions>
+    <execution>
+      <id>generate</id>
+      <goals>
+        <goal>descriptor</goal>
+      </goals>
+    </execution>
+  </executions>
+</plugin>
++----+
+
+ [[4]] Package your project by executing 'mvn clean package'
+
+ [[5]] Let's say you are using the apache-archiva-1.0-bin.tar.gz to run Archiva. Unpack
+   the binaries then go to bin/linux-x86-32/ (assuming you are running on Linux), then execute
+   './run.sh console'. Then stop or shutdown Archiva after it started. (This is necessary to unpack
+   the war file.)
 
-Writing a Custom Repository Consumer
+ [[6]] Copy the jar file you created in step 4 in apache-archiva-1.0/apps/archiva/webapp/lib/
 
-  :STUB: This is a documentation stub.
+ [[7]] Add the necessary configurations in archiva.xml (in this case, add 'discover-new-artifact' as a
+   <knownContentConsumer>)
 
+ [[8]] Start up Archiva again.
diff --git a/archiva-docs/src/site/site.xml b/archiva-docs/src/site/site.xml
index 080f81a22..be85a587d 100644
--- a/archiva-docs/src/site/site.xml
+++ b/archiva-docs/src/site/site.xml
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
     </menu>
 
     <menu name="Customising Archiva">
-      <item name="Writing a Consumer Plugin" href="/customising/writing-consumers.html" />
+      <item name="Writing a Consumer Plugin" href="/customising/writing-consumer.html" />
     </menu>
 
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