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-
-<!-- Author: Parsia Hakimian https://github.com/parsiya/Hugo-Shortcodes -->
-<!-- port of Octopress blockquote plugin http://octopress.org/docs/plugins/blockquote/ to Hugo
-     see readme for usage -->
-
-<!-- reset scratch variables at the start -->
-{{ $.Scratch.Set "bl_author" false }}
-{{ $.Scratch.Set "bl_source" false }}
-{{ $.Scratch.Set "bl_link" false }}
-{{ $.Scratch.Set "bl_title" false }}
-
-{{ if .IsNamedParams }}
-  {{ $.Scratch.Set "bl_author" (.Get "author") }}
-  {{ $.Scratch.Set "bl_source" (.Get "source") }}
-  {{ $.Scratch.Set "bl_link" (.Get "link") }}
-  {{ $.Scratch.Set "bl_title" (.Get "title") }}
-{{ else }}
-  <!-- for the positional version if any -->
-{{ end }}
-
-<!-- if title is not set explicitly then we need to beautify the link
-     if length of link is more than 32 chars, we will cut it off by 32 and
-     then drop everything after the last / if any and put it in into title -->
-
-{{ with $.Scratch.Get "bl_title" }}
-  <!-- do nothing -->
-{{ else }}
-  {{ with $.Scratch.Get "bl_link" }}    <!-- if link is given -->
-    {{ range last 1 (split ($.Scratch.Get "bl_link" ) "://") }}  <!-- split by :// and then only take the items after it to remove protocol:// -->
-      {{ $.Scratch.Set "title_without_protocol" . }}
-    {{ end }}
-    {{ range last 1 (split ($.Scratch.Get "title_without_protocol" ) "www.")  }} <!-- also remove the www. at the start if any. we are using a second split because all URLS may not start with it -->
-      {{ $.Scratch.Set "title_without_protocol" . }}
-    {{ end }}
-    {{ $.Scratch.Set "bl_title" ($.Scratch.Get "title_without_protocol") }}
-
-    <!-- if link is longer than 32 bytes we should trim it -->
-    {{ if (gt (len ($.Scratch.Get "title_without_protocol") ) 32) }}
-      {{ $title := (slicestr ($.Scratch.Get "title_without_protocol") 0 32) }}   <!-- get the first 32 characters of title_without_protocol -->
-      {{ $split_by_fw_slash := split $title "/" }}   <!-- now split on / because we want to stop after the last forward slash -->
-      {{ $count := (sub (len $split_by_fw_slash) 1) }}   <!-- we want everything but the last part so we adjust the count accordingly -->
-
-      {{ $.Scratch.Set "tempstring" "" }}   <!-- temp variable to hold the concatinated string -->
-      {{ range first $count $split_by_fw_slash  }}  <!-- loop through all parts except last and concat them (add / between halves) -->
-        {{ $.Scratch.Set "tempstring" ( . | printf "%s%s/" ($.Scratch.Get "tempstring") | printf "%s" ) }}
-      {{ end }}
-      {{ $.Scratch.Set "bl_title" ( printf "%s..." ($.Scratch.Get "tempstring") | printf "%s" ) }}
-    {{ end }}
-  {{ end }}
-{{ end }}
-
-<blockquote>
-  <p>{{ .Inner | markdownify }}</p>
-  <footer>
-    <strong>{{ with $.Scratch.Get "bl_author" }}{{ . }}{{ end }}</strong>
-    {{ with $.Scratch.Get "bl_source" }}
-      <cite>{{ . }}</cite>
-    {{ else }}
-      {{ with $.Scratch.Get "bl_link" }}
-        <cite>
-          <a href="{{ . }}" title="{{ . }}">{{ $.Scratch.Get "bl_title" }}</a> <!-- can't have new lines here -->
-        </cite>
-      {{ else }}
-        {{ with $.Scratch.Get "bl_title" }}
-          <cite>
-            {{ $.Scratch.Get "bl_title" }}</a>
-          </cite>
-        {{ end }}
-      {{ end }}
-    {{ end }}
-  </footer>
-</blockquote>