How to add a method to this jQuery plugin template?

I use the following code as the basis for the plugin I'm working on for a project - from an article on Smashing Magazine, located here under the heading "Easy Start":

http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2011/10/11/essential-jquery-plugin-patterns/

So far, it worked perfectly for my purposes, but the rest of the article goes off tangentially and talks about which jQuery UI widgets I assume I will need a jQuery user interface library that I really don't want to use.

/*!
 * jQuery lightweight plugin boilerplate
 * Original author: @ajpiano
 * Further changes, comments: @addyosmani
 * Licensed under the MIT license
 */

// the semi-colon before the function invocation is a safety
// net against concatenated scripts and/or other plugins
// that are not closed properly.
;(function ( $, window, document, undefined ) {

    // undefined is used here as the undefined global
    // variable in ECMAScript 3 and is mutable (i.e. it can
    // be changed by someone else). undefined isn't really
    // being passed in so we can ensure that its value is
    // truly undefined. In ES5, undefined can no longer be
    // modified.

    // window and document are passed through as local
    // variables rather than as globals, because this (slightly)
    // quickens the resolution process and can be more
    // efficiently minified (especially when both are
    // regularly referenced in your plugin).

    // Create the defaults once
    var pluginName = 'defaultPluginName',
        defaults = {
            propertyName: "value"
        };

    // The actual plugin constructor
    function Plugin( element, options ) {
        this.element = element;

        // jQuery has an extend method that merges the
        // contents of two or more objects, storing the
        // result in the first object. The first object
        // is generally empty because we don't want to alter
        // the default options for future instances of the plugin
        this.options = $.extend( {}, defaults, options) ;

        this._defaults = defaults;
        this._name = pluginName;

        this.init();
    }

    Plugin.prototype.init = function () {
        // Place initialization logic here
        // You already have access to the DOM element and
        // the options via the instance, e.g. this.element
        // and this.options
    };

    // A really lightweight plugin wrapper around the constructor,
    // preventing against multiple instantiations
    $.fn[pluginName] = function ( options ) {
        return this.each(function () {
            if (!$.data(this, 'plugin_' + pluginName)) {
                $.data(this, 'plugin_' + pluginName,
                new Plugin( this, options ));
            }
        });
    }

})( jQuery, window, document );

Now I need to add a method, but I do not know how to do it.

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$.fn.yourPlugin = function(options) {
    if (typeof options === "string") {
        //Call method referred to by 'options'
    } else {
        //Setup plugin as usual
    }
};

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Plugin.prototype.changeColor = function(color) {
    $(this.element).css("color", color);
}

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$.fn[pluginName] = function ( options ) {
    return this.each(function () {
        if (typeof options === "string") {
            var args = Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments, 1),
                plugin = $.data(this, 'plugin_' + pluginName);
            plugin[options].apply(plugin, args);
        } else if (!$.data(this, 'plugin_' + pluginName)) {
            $.data(this, 'plugin_' + pluginName,
            new Plugin( this, options ));
        }
    });
};

changeColor :

$("#example").defaultPluginName("changeColour", "red");​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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Plugin.prototype.reset = function () {

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Plugin.prototype.destroy = function () {

};

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Instead of starting with a template that is hard for you to understand, it's best to start with the origins:

http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/Authoring

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