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// Custom Footer
add_filter('genesis_footer_output', 'footer_output_filter', 10, 3);

function footer_output_filter( $output, $creds_text ) {
    $creds_text = 'Copyright [footer_copyright] <a href="'. trailingslashit( get_bloginfo('url') ) .'" title="'. esc_attr( get_bloginfo('name') ) .' rel="nofollow"">'.get_bloginfo('name').'</a> &middot; Designed by <a href="http://www.nutsandboltsmedia.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Nuts and Bolts Media</a>';
    $output = '</div>' . '<div class="creds">' . $creds_text . '</div>';
      return $output;
}

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<?php

//* DO NOT include the opening PHP tag

//* Automatically link Twitter names to Twitter URL
function twtreplace($content) {
	$twtreplace = preg_replace('/([^a-zA-Z0-9-_&])@([0-9a-zA-Z_]+)/',"$1<a href=\"http://twitter.com/$2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">@$2</a>",$content);
	return $twtreplace;
}

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// Change default comment text
function nabm_change_comment_text($args) {
    $args['title_reply'] = 'Leave a Comment';
    return $args;
}
add_filter( 'genesis_comment_form_args', 'nabm_change_comment_text' );

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// Remove the edit link
add_filter ( 'genesis_edit_post_link' , '__return_false' );

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//* Enable shortcodes in widgets
add_filter('widget_text', 'do_shortcode');

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// Enable PHP in widgets
add_filter('widget_text','execute_php',100);
function execute_php($html){
     if(strpos($html,"<"."?php")!==false){
          ob_start();
          eval("?".">".$html);
          $html=ob_get_contents();
          ob_end_clean();
     }
     return $html;

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// Customize Read More text
add_filter( 'excerpt_more', 'nabm_more_link' );
add_filter( 'get_the_content_more_link', 'nabm_more_link' );
add_filter( 'the_content_more_link', 'nabm_more_link' );
function nabm_more_link() {
return '<a href="' . get_permalink() . '" rel="nofollow"><strong>Continue Reading...</strong></a>';
}

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// Add welcome message before content on homepage
add_action( 'genesis_before_loop', 'nabm_welcome_message' );
function nabm_welcome_message() {

	if ( ! is_home() || get_query_var( 'paged' ) >= 2 )
		return;

	genesis_widget_area( 'welcome-message', array(
		'before' => '<div class="welcome-message" class="widget-area">',
		'after'  => '</div>',

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// Add the newsletter widget after the post content
add_action( 'genesis_after_post_content', 'nabm_add_newsletter_box' );
function nabm_add_newsletter_box() {
	if ( is_singular( 'post' ) )
	genesis_widget_area( 'newsletter', array(
		'before' => '<div id="newsletter">',
	) );
}

genesis_register_sidebar( array(

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// Add custom dashboard widget
add_action('wp_dashboard_setup', 'nabm_dashboard_widget');
function nabm_dashboard_widget() {
global $wp_meta_boxes;
wp_add_dashboard_widget('custom_help_widget', 'ADD WIDGET TITLE HERE', 'custom_dashboard_help');
}
function custom_dashboard_help() {
echo '<p>PLACE YOUR WIDGET CONTENT HERE, INCLUDING HTML.</p>';
}