Title: Good idea, bad code
Last modified: September 2, 2016

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# Good idea, bad code

 *  [krossekrabbe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/krossekrabbe/)
 * (@krossekrabbe)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/good-idea-bad-code/)
 * I like the idea and basically it is working great (importing, resetting and so
   on). But the author is doing some unusual things like setting the Youtube Video
   ID to the post’s thumbnail ID meta field. Thumbs / images are fucked up completely
   for the youtube posts generated by this plugin. No idea why this was done that
   way.

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