I wrote a simple plugin to do some custom display options for my site. I couldn't find a way to handle it via templates. I create a link to it within the template default/subcategory.txt so that a link that calls it appears beside each category display (like "new" or "updated").

My problem is that it asks for the username and password from the htaccess for the whole admin section. I need this option to be available to regular users.

How can I use or call a plugin like this? Or is there a way to use some custom perl functions within a new template I could then use via page.cgi?