Title: Genki Youtube Comments
Author: genkisan
Published: <strong>June 16, 2007</strong>
Last modified: December 17, 2014

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Genki Youtube Comments

 By [genkisan](https://profiles.wordpress.org/genkisan/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/genki-youtube-comments.zip)

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 * [Reviews](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/genki-youtube-comments/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/genki-youtube-comments/#installation)
 * [Development](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/genki-youtube-comments/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/genki-youtube-comments/)

## Description

 * grab youtube video comments and insert into your blog post
 * schedule hourly, daily, weekly
 * manual update

**Demo:**
 [Plugin Details & Demo](http://ericulous.com/2007/05/16/wp-plugin-genki-youtube-comments/)

## Screenshots

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 * Admin Panel
 * [[
 * Insert custom field

## Installation

 1. Upload as a folder and activate plugin
 2. Go to Admin Panel > Settings > YouTube Comments.
 3. Set schedule or update manually.
 4. Go to Admin Panel > Posts, find the post which you want the comments to be inserted.
 5. Go to the Custom Fields section and add “youtubevidid” as key.
 6. For value, add your YouTube video id e.g X2BEhk1fqZ
 7. If more than 1 video, simply add more keys: youtubevidid1, youtubevidid2 and so
    on

## Reviews

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### 󠀁[Doesn't work](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/doesnt-work-1267/)󠁿

 [RaeShantael](https://profiles.wordpress.org/raeshantael/) September 3, 2016

This plugin doesn’t work. I wish the author would support this plugin as it is a
great concept.

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### 󠀁[Suddenly Stopped Working, No Support Available](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/suddenly-stopped-working-no-support-available/)󠁿

 [Lord Kayoss](https://profiles.wordpress.org/lord-kayoss/) September 3, 2016

Plugin suddenly stopped working for me in August, presumably due to a Wordpress 
upgrade. Cannot get any support, as developer seems to have abandoned this plugin.
Shame. Was great when it worked.

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## Contributors & Developers

“Genki Youtube Comments” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ genkisan ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/genkisan/)

[Translate “Genki Youtube Comments” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/genki-youtube-comments)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/genki-youtube-comments/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/genki-youtube-comments/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/genki-youtube-comments/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/genki-youtube-comments/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 2.0.0

 * New method to prevent duplicate comments (if you are upgrading from version 1.
   x.x, this may result in duplicate comments during the first run)
 * Display recently inserted comments log

#### 1.4.0

 * Remove hidden characters in youtube data (which is casuing duplicate comments)(
   not foolproof but should greatly reduce duplicate comments)

#### 1.3.0

 * Added curl support by Piotr GRD
 * Minor interface adjustment

#### 1.2.0

 * disable error/warnings (to continue fetching comments in event of an error)

#### 1.1.0

 * play nice with new youtube API

## Meta

 *  Version **2.0**
 *  Last updated **11 years ago**
 *  Active installations **40+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.1.0**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/genki-youtube-comments/)
 * Tags
 * [comments](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/comments/)[youtube](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/youtube/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/genki-youtube-comments/advanced/)

## Ratings

 1 out of 5 stars.

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## Contributors

 *   [ genkisan ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/genkisan/)

## Support

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