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-<?php
-/*
-	Plugin Name: footnotes
-	Plugin URI: http://wordpress.org/plugins/footnotes/
-	Description: time to bring footnotes to your website! footnotes are known from offline publishing and everybody takes them for granted when reading a magazine.
-	Author: ManFisher Medien ManuFaktur
-	Version: 1.6.3
-	Author URI: http://manfisher.net/plugins/footnotes/
-	Text Domain: footnotes
-	Domain Path: /languages
-*/
-/*
-	Copyright 2014  Mark Cheret, Stefan Herndler (email : info@manfisher.eu | support@herndler.org)
-
-	This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-	it under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 3, as
-	published by the Free Software Foundation.
-
-	This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-	but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-	MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-	GNU General Public License for more details.
-
-	You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-	along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
-	Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA
-*/
-/**
- * @filesource
- * @author Stefan Herndler
- * @since 0.0.1
- */
-
-// Get all common classes and functions
-require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . "/includes.php");
-
-// add Plugin Links to the "installed plugins" page
-$l_str_plugin_file = 'footnotes/footnotes.php';
-add_filter("plugin_action_links_{$l_str_plugin_file}", array("MCI_Footnotes_Hooks", "PluginLinks"), 10, 2);
-
-// initialize the Plugin
-$g_obj_MCI_Footnotes = new MCI_Footnotes();
-// run the Plugin
-$g_obj_MCI_Footnotes->run();
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