Title: Viper's Video Quicktags Migrator
Author: Automattic
Published: <strong>June 15, 2016</strong>
Last modified: February 4, 2019

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# vipers-video-quicktags-migrator

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/vipers-video-quicktags-migrator/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/vipers-video-quicktags-migrator/#reviews)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/vipers-video-quicktags-migrator/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/vipers-video-quicktags-migrator/)

## Description

This plugin has been closed as of February 28, 2019 and is not available for download.
This closure is permanent. Reason: Author Request.

## Reviews

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Greatly appreciated!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/greatly-appreciated/)󠁿

 [Martin Sauter](https://profiles.wordpress.org/martinsauter/) May 14, 2018 1 reply

I really appreciate how this developer cares about how to retire his plug-in properly.

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Classy move](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/classy-move/)󠁿

 [ylsine](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ylsine/) October 8, 2016

This a really classy way to retire a plugin – thank you!!

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Not everybody thinks about 'bit rot' — thanks Viper for remembering us!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-everybody-thinks-about-bit-rot-thanks-viper-for-remembering-us/)󠁿

 [Gwyneth Llewelyn](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gwynethllewelyn/) September 3,
2016

Viper’s Video Quicktags was always the first plugin I would install on a fresh WP
installation, a decade ago. Of course, a lot of those links are still on my 12-year-
old blog, and I was always weary about removing Viper’s Video Quicktags because 
I didn’t want all the old pages to fail… One of the toughest thing to maintain on
the Internet are long-lived websites and services. Everything is subject to ‘bit
rot’ — things that stop working suddenly because they aren’t supported any more.
Most plugin/theme writers couldn’t care less about supporting decade-old software.
Viper, however, did a great job with this ‘replacement’, which will make sure that
those ancient links will still work, but now with WP’s built-in handling, which,
in almost cases, is much superior to what a venerable, 10-year-old plugin can do.
So we get the best of both worlds: modern file embedding and support for old links
🙂

 [ Read all 3 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/vipers-video-quicktags-migrator/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Viper's Video Quicktags Migrator” is open source software. The following people
have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Automattic ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/automattic/)
 *   [ Alex Mills ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/viper007bond/)

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### Interested in development?

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

## Meta

 *  Version **1.2.2**
 *  Last updated **7 years ago**
 *  Active installations **N/A**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.9 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **5.1.22**
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/vipers-video-quicktags-migrator/advanced/)