Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Change Author And Creation Date Of Posts And Articles

Info:
This modification lets you change the author of posts and articles.
In addition, it lets you change the creation date of posts.
The option to change the author appears in:
- Post New Thread.
- Post New Reply.
- (Advanced) Edit Thread/Post.
- Create/Edit Article.

The option to change the creation date of a post appears in:
- (Advanced) Edit Post.

Requirements:
The CMS part of this mod requires vB 4.1.10+.

Installation & Settings:
Installation takes about 1-2 minutes.
You can set which usergroups are allowed to use the feature via the ACP.

Version History:
1.0 29.04.2010: Initial release.
2.0 12.05.2010: Added ability to change creation date of posts.
2.1 05.06.2010: The mod now automatically updates forum and thread counters.
2.2 03.05.2011 CMS integration has been removed and will be restored in the future. No template edits needed and the fields have been improved. Also fixed some special characters issues, it should now word flawlessly.
3.0 27.05.2012 CMS integration has been restored.
3.0.1 27.05.2012 Fixed incorrect time in posts.
3.0.2 27.05.2012 Fixed time offset issue.

[sportsfroma2]

Thanks for this!

stupid Question- If I only wanted the ability to change the author of the articles for the CMS (my Impex Port left some authors blank), I only need to do that template edit, right?

Thanks!

[sportsfroma2]

darn it wouldn't work for me in the CMS the field is there, I enter my own username (I'm an admin, have all the rights for the CMS and stuff), but it doesn't stay when I save/apply

[sportsfroma2]

oh and PS- the product identifies itself as version 1.0, not 2.0

[ispots]

Does anyone else have an issue where the edited time vs the posted time are off by a few hours??

Date (mm/dd/yyyy): 5 / 26 / 2010
Time (hh/mm/ss): 10 : 38 : 20
Message originally posted by LagunaBlue on 05-26-2010 at 01:38 PM:

[vilhiem]

Will this work on the Forums ... or only on CMS pages ...?

Thanks!

[pjcnlv]

This mod somehow attaches the word "Default" before every post title.

How can this be fixed?

[Frans72]

Originally Posted by pjcnlv

This mod somehow attaches the word "Default" before every post title.

How can this be fixed?

Doesn't do that for me. You can try disabling one plugin of this mod at a time and see if it goes away.

[thunderclap82]

I've installed the mod and I can change the author in the forums, but not the articles in the CMS page. How can I do this?

[trafficbrokers]

I plan on using this to easily change the order of sticky posts. We use a lot of them and want them in a certain order, so when we add a new sticky it's a pain, but with this mod it should be super easy. My question is that after I changed the date of a sticky post, in order to get it re-sorted properly I had to rebuild the thread information. Does this sound right? So it sounds like I should probably set-up a scheduled task to rebuild the thread information every night, or we will have to remember to rebuild it manually each time we use this mod to change a posts date, right??

[Yellow Slider]

Originally Posted by trafficbrokers

I plan on using this to easily change the order of sticky posts. We use a lot of them and want them in a certain order, so when we add a new sticky it's a pain, but with this mod it should be super easy. My question is that after I changed the date of a sticky post, in order to get it re-sorted properly I had to rebuild the thread information. Does this sound right? So it sounds like I should probably set-up a scheduled task to rebuild the thread information every night, or we will have to remember to rebuild it manually each time we use this mod to change a posts date, right??

In version 2.1 forum and thread counters are automatically updated.