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+[submodule "pelican-plugins"]
+	path = pelican-plugins
+	url = https://github.com/getpelican/pelican-plugins
diff --git a/pelican-plugins b/pelican-plugins
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+Subproject commit 483215d2e1998684b7f413b6b1c8e26058fd2e6b