Title: Plugin fork
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Plugin fork

 *  [alexcosta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexcosta/)
 * (@alexcosta)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-fork/)
 * I have noticed that the plugin author doesn’t seem to be available for almost
   a year.
 * I’ve made too much alterations to the plugin that it´s impossible to me to ever
   update it again.
 * So, i ask the original author if it’s ok to me to fork it and make it too available
   in WordPress. All credits mentioned.
 * So far my hacked version has:
    – Fix for custom permalinks, change “external-
   videos” to whatever you want. – Fix for custom added videos are deleted when 
   channels are updated. – Bulk edit tags/categories doesn’t throw error “invalid
   post type” – Add a new channel and plugin will create a category with the name
   of the channel and add all videos to that category. Good for organizing videos.–
   External-videos are treated like a common post type. No more video attach to 
   other post. That means archive pages for all videos, and working breadcrumbs.–
   Removed media gallery, shortcode, dot sub and Vimeo (sorry, maybe add it later)
 * What do you guys think?
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/external-videos/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/external-videos/)

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 *  Plugin Author [silviapfeiffer1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/silviapfeiffer1/)
 * (@silviapfeiffer1)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-fork/#post-4478495)
 * Hi Alex,
 * Funny, I just started applying patches again etc and just saw your post.
 * I now maintain the plugin in github at [https://github.com/silviapfeiffer/external-videos](https://github.com/silviapfeiffer/external-videos).
   If you want me to apply any patches for your features, why don’t you fork it 
   there and do some pull requests? I’d love to be able to apply your patches.
 * Of course you’re always free to fork the plugin, but maybe it would be easier
   if we maintained it together.
 * Most of the features that you mentioned above would be great to get added! (Why
   did you remove DotSub and Vimeo? Why did you remove the gallery & shortcode? 
   Not sure it’s a good idea to turn external videos into common post types…)
 *  Thread Starter [alexcosta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexcosta/)
 * (@alexcosta)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-fork/#post-4478500)
 * Hi Silvia, glad to see you here.
 * I will be more than happy with help patching the plugin in GitHub.
 * I will test the new version as soon as i can.
 * About my tweaked/fork and features removed goes like this:
 * I’ve made a site to a client and i needed a plugin/script that did one thing 
   and one thing only: pull videos from a channel on Youtube and add each video 
   as a custom post type post.
 * Your fantastic plugin does pretty much that, except the part of the custom post
   type, which is easy to change in the plugin. But will loose ability to update.
   
   Since i didn’t needed anything else (like media library & shortcode) i removed
   it.
 * And since there are WordPress users who seem to be interested in just that i 
   thought i could make it available too. With a different name but with all credits.
   But it’s up to you, if you don’t feel comfortable with it there’s no problem.
 * Anyway i will check the new version and follow the plugin in GitHub.
 * Cheers
    Alex
 *  Plugin Author [silviapfeiffer1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/silviapfeiffer1/)
 * (@silviapfeiffer1)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-fork/#post-4478514)
 * Hi Alex,
 * if you want a reduced plugin, I would indeed suggest creating a fork and giving
   it a different name. Very happy for that – just go ahead.
 * But I would like to merge some of the other features that you made, if that’s
   ok.
 * Cheers,
    Silvia.
 *  Plugin Author [silviapfeiffer1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/silviapfeiffer1/)
 * (@silviapfeiffer1)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-fork/#post-4478516)
 * Looks like this guy wants that fork, too: [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/id-video-posts-to-be-normal-posts](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/id-video-posts-to-be-normal-posts).

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 * ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/external-videos_fefefe.svg)
 * [External Videos](https://wordpress.org/plugins/external-videos/)
 * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/external-videos/#faq)
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 * [Youtube](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/youtube/)

 * 4 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [silviapfeiffer1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/silviapfeiffer1/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-fork/#post-4478516)
 * Status: not resolved