diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index 2d8043c72ce7..d1a2e3783ce2 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ gem 'jekyll'
 
 # Core plugins that directly affect site building
 group :jekyll_plugins do
+    gem 'jekyll-3rd-party-libraries'
     gem 'jekyll-archives'
     gem 'jekyll-email-protect'
     gem 'jekyll-feed'
diff --git a/Gemfile.lock b/Gemfile.lock
index 1faa4e09204c..0db2872fcc46 100644
--- a/Gemfile.lock
+++ b/Gemfile.lock
@@ -132,6 +132,10 @@ GEM
       multi_xml (>= 0.5.2)
     i18n (1.14.6)
       concurrent-ruby (~> 1.0)
+    jekyll-3rd-party-libraries (0.0.1)
+      css_parser (>= 1.6, < 2.0)
+      jekyll (>= 3.6, < 5.0)
+      nokogiri (>= 1.8, < 2.0)
     jekyll (4.3.4)
       addressable (~> 2.4)
       colorator (~> 1.0)
@@ -302,6 +306,7 @@ DEPENDENCIES
   classifier-reborn
   css_parser
   jekyll
+  jekyll-3rd-party-libraries
   jekyll-archives
   jekyll-email-protect
   jekyll-feed
diff --git a/_config.yml b/_config.yml
index 363a439ceb7a..5ae63f6a4ff2 100644
--- a/_config.yml
+++ b/_config.yml
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ keep_files:
 
 # Plug-ins
 plugins:
-  # Jekyll plugins
+  - jekyll-3rd-party-libraries
   - jekyll-archives
   - jekyll-email-protect
   - jekyll-feed
diff --git a/_plugins/download-3rd-party.rb b/_plugins/download-3rd-party.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index 59f809f4de6f..000000000000
--- a/_plugins/download-3rd-party.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,253 +0,0 @@
-Jekyll::Hooks.register :site, :after_init do |site|
-  require 'css_parser'
-  require 'digest'
-  require 'fileutils'
-  require 'nokogiri'
-  require 'open-uri'
-  require 'uri'
-
-  font_file_types = ['otf', 'ttf', 'woff', 'woff2']
-  image_file_types = ['.gif', '.jpg', '.jpeg', '.png', '.webp']
-
-  def download_and_change_rule_set_url(rule_set, rule, dest, dirname, config, file_types)
-    # check if the rule has a url
-    if rule_set[rule].include?('url(')
-      # get the file url
-      url = rule_set[rule].split('url(').last.split(')').first
-
-      # remove quotes from the url
-      if url.start_with?('"') || url.start_with?("'")
-        url = url[1..-2]
-      end
-
-      file_name = url.split('/').last.split('?').first
-
-      # verify if the file is of the correct type
-      if file_name.end_with?(*file_types)
-        # fix the url if it is not an absolute url
-        unless url.start_with?('https://')
-          url = URI.join(url, url).to_s
-        end
-
-        # download the file
-        download_file(url, File.join(dest, file_name))
-
-        # change the url to the local file, considering baseurl
-        previous_rule = rule_set[rule]
-        if config['baseurl']
-          # add rest of the src attribute if it exists
-          if rule_set[rule].split(' ').length > 1
-            rule_set[rule] = "url(#{File.join(config['baseurl'], 'assets', 'libs', dirname, file_name)}) #{rule_set[rule].split(' ').last}"
-          else
-            rule_set[rule] = "url(#{File.join(config['baseurl'], 'assets', 'libs', dirname, file_name)})"
-          end
-        else
-          # add rest of the src attribute if it exists
-          if rule_set[rule].split(' ').length > 1
-            rule_set[rule] = "url(#{File.join('/assets', 'libs', dirname, file_name)}) #{rule_set[rule].split(' ').last}"
-          else
-            rule_set[rule] = "url(#{File.join('/assets', 'libs', dirname, file_name)})"
-          end
-        end
-        puts "Changed #{previous_rule} to #{rule_set[rule]}"
-      end
-    end
-  end
-
-  def download_file(url, dest)
-    # only try to download the file if url doesn't start with | for security reasons
-    if url.start_with?('|')
-      return
-    end
-
-    # create the directory if it doesn't exist
-    dir = File.dirname(dest)
-    unless File.directory?(dir)
-      FileUtils.mkdir_p(dir)
-    end
-
-    # download the file if it doesn't exist
-    unless File.file?(dest)
-      puts "Downloading #{url} to #{dest}"
-      File.open(dest, "wb") do |saved_file|
-        URI(url).open("rb") do |read_file|
-          saved_file.write(read_file.read)
-        end
-      end
-
-      # check if the file was downloaded successfully
-      unless File.file?(dest)
-        raise "Failed to download #{url} to #{dest}"
-      end
-    end
-  end
-
-  def download_fonts(url, dest, file_types)
-    # only try to download the file if url doesn't start with | for security reasons
-    if url.start_with?('|')
-      return
-    end
-
-    # only download fonts if the directory doesn't exist or is empty
-    unless File.directory?(dest) && !Dir.empty?(dest)
-      puts "Downloading fonts from #{url} to #{dest}"
-      # get available fonts from the url
-      doc = Nokogiri::HTML(URI(url).open("User-Agent" => "Ruby/#{RUBY_VERSION}"))
-      doc.css('a').each do |link|
-        # get the file name from the url
-        file_name = link['href'].split('/').last.split('?').first
-
-        # verify if the file is a font file
-        if file_name.end_with?(*file_types)
-          # download the file and change the url to the local file
-          download_file(URI.join(url, link['href']).to_s, File.join(dest, file_name))
-        end
-      end
-    end
-  end
-
-  def download_images(url, dest, file_types)
-    # only try to download the file if url doesn't start with | for security reasons
-    if url.start_with?('|')
-      return
-    end
-
-    # only download images if the directory doesn't exist or is empty
-    unless File.directory?(dest) && !Dir.empty?(dest)
-      puts "Downloading images from #{url} to #{dest}"
-      # get available fonts from the url
-      doc = Nokogiri::HTML(URI(url).open("User-Agent" => "Ruby/#{RUBY_VERSION}"))
-      doc.xpath('/html/body/div/div[3]/table/tbody/tr/td[1]/a').each do |link|
-        # get the file name from the url
-        file_name = link['href'].split('/').last.split('?').first
-
-        # verify if the file is a font file
-        if file_name.end_with?(*file_types)
-          # download the file and change the url to the local file
-          download_file(URI.join(url, link['href']).to_s, File.join(dest, file_name))
-        end
-      end
-    end
-  end
-
-  def download_fonts_from_css(config, url, dest, lib_name, file_types)
-    # only try to download the file if url doesn't start with | for security reasons
-    if url.start_with?('|')
-      return
-    end
-
-    # get the file name from the url
-    file_name = url.split('/').last.split('?').first
-
-    if file_name == 'css'
-      file_name = 'google-fonts.css'
-    end
-
-    # only download the css file if it doesn't exist
-    unless File.file?(File.join(dest, file_name))
-      puts "Downloading fonts from #{url} to #{dest}"
-      # download the css file with a fake user agent to force downloading woff2 fonts instead of ttf
-      # user agent from https://www.whatismybrowser.com/guides/the-latest-user-agent/chrome
-      doc = Nokogiri::HTML(URI(url).open("User-Agent" => "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/123.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"))
-      css = CssParser::Parser.new
-      css.load_string! doc.document.text
-
-      # get the font-face rules
-      css.each_rule_set do |rule_set|
-        # check if the rule set has a url
-        download_and_change_rule_set_url(rule_set, 'src', File.join(dest, 'fonts'), File.join(lib_name, 'fonts'), config, file_types)
-      end
-
-      # save the modified css file
-      puts "Saving modified css file to #{File.join(dest, file_name)}"
-      File.write(File.join(dest, file_name), css.to_s)
-    end
-
-    return file_name
-  end
-
-  # replace {{version}} with the version number in all 3rd party libraries urls
-  site.config['third_party_libraries'].each do |key, value|
-    if key != 'download'
-      value['url'].each do |type, url|
-        # check if url is a dictionary
-        if url.is_a?(Hash)
-          url.each do |type2, url2|
-            # replace {{version}} with the version number if it exists
-            if url2.include?('{{version}}')
-              site.config['third_party_libraries'][key]['url'][type][type2] = url2.gsub('{{version}}', site.config['third_party_libraries'][key]['version'])
-            end
-          end
-        else
-          # replace {{version}} with the version number if it exists
-          if url.include?('{{version}}')
-            site.config['third_party_libraries'][key]['url'][type] = url.gsub('{{version}}', site.config['third_party_libraries'][key]['version'])
-          end
-        end
-      end
-    end
-  end
-
-  # download 3rd party libraries if required
-  if site.config['third_party_libraries']['download']
-    site.config['third_party_libraries'].each do |key, value|
-      if key != 'download'
-        value['url'].each do |type, url|
-          # check if url is a dictionary
-          if url.is_a?(Hash)
-            url.each do |type2, url2|
-              # get the file name from the url
-              file_name = url2.split('/').last.split('?').first
-              # download the file and change the url to the local file
-              dest = File.join(site.source, 'assets', 'libs', key, file_name)
-              download_file(url2, dest)
-              # change the url to the local file, considering baseurl
-              if site.config['baseurl']
-                site.config['third_party_libraries'][key]['url'][type][type2] = File.join(site.config['baseurl'], 'assets', 'libs', key, file_name)
-              else
-                site.config['third_party_libraries'][key]['url'][type][type2] = File.join('/assets', 'libs', key, file_name)
-              end
-            end
-
-          else
-            if type == 'fonts'
-              # get the file name from the url
-              file_name = url.split('/').last.split('?').first
-
-              if file_name.end_with?('css')
-                # if the file is a css file, download the css file, the fonts from it, and change information on the css file
-                file_name = download_fonts_from_css(site.config, url, File.join(site.source, 'assets', 'libs', key), key, font_file_types)
-                # change the url to the local file, considering baseurl
-                if site.config['baseurl']
-                  site.config['third_party_libraries'][key]['url'][type] = File.join(site.config['baseurl'], 'assets', 'libs', key, file_name)
-                else
-                  site.config['third_party_libraries'][key]['url'][type] = File.join('/assets', 'libs', key, file_name)
-                end
-              else
-                # download the font files and change the url to the local file
-                download_fonts(url, File.join(site.source, 'assets', 'libs', key, site.config['third_party_libraries'][key]['local'][type]), font_file_types)
-              end
-
-            elsif type == 'images'
-              # download the font files and change the url to the local file
-              download_images(url, File.join(site.source, 'assets', 'libs', key, site.config['third_party_libraries'][key]['local'][type]), image_file_types)
-
-            else
-              # get the file name from the url
-              file_name = url.split('/').last.split('?').first
-              # download the file and change the url to the local file
-              dest = File.join(site.source, 'assets', 'libs', key, file_name)
-              download_file(url, dest)
-              # change the url to the local file, considering baseurl
-              if site.config['baseurl']
-                site.config['third_party_libraries'][key]['url'][type] = File.join(site.config['baseurl'], 'assets', 'libs', key, file_name)
-              else
-                site.config['third_party_libraries'][key]['url'][type] = File.join('/assets', 'libs', key, file_name)
-              end
-            end
-          end
-        end
-      end
-    end
-  end
-end