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Great plugin. AFAICS you can also use it with just a button without all the rest of the circuitry, to safely shutdown the Raspberry pi (it will end up in a low power sleep mode rather than being completely off). If you use GPIO3 (pin 5) for this, you can even power it on again with the same button.
However, I noticed this plugin uses a bash script and wiringpi to read the button. It might be possible to simplify this using dtoverlays. See [url=https://www.stderr.nl/Blog/Hardware/RaspberryPi/PowerButton.html]this post[/url] I wrote about this a while back. The post is only about letting the kernel handle the shutdown pin, but I believe there is also a gpio-poweroff overlay that handles toggling a pin on shutdown (though the [url=https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/blob/master/boot/overlays/README]docs[/url] suggest it might be tricky when the pin must be low to poweroff).