bbPress Support Forums » Topic: Change Post Author? http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/change-post-author bbPress Support Forums » Topic: Change Post Author? en-US Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:35:32 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1 jwb888 on "Change Post Author?" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/change-post-author#post-86209 Fri, 08 Apr 2011 06:56:35 +0000 jwb888 86209@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Hi all

Did this ever eventuate? Or did anyone find a plugin or hack that can do this please? We'd find it really useful when populating the database to be able to quickly switch a post's author from a dropdown list.

Thanks
Warwick.

]]> Markus Pezold on "Change Post Author?" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/change-post-author#post-37624 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:29:11 +0000 Markus Pezold 37624@http://bbpress.org/forums/ hmm... this function/plugin would be great to admin's for "cleaning" after an import from another software, e.g. phpBB.

When today a admin user goes into an old Post from an Guest Users (of the old software) and change something - the post is saved with his user-id. It's not possible to change the username afterwards to the original username.

]]> _ck_ on "Change Post Author?" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/change-post-author#post-23308 Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:57:46 +0000 _ck_ 23308@http://bbpress.org/forums/ This would be a good test plugin for my new username-suggest function.
You can't just have a dropdown of thousands of users.

]]> John James Jacoby on "Change Post Author?" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/change-post-author#post-23273 Wed, 21 Jan 2009 03:02:01 +0000 John James Jacoby 23273@http://bbpress.org/forums/ I think I may try to tackle this plugin when I have more time, because I find myself wanting it more and more.

I guess I come from the old school, where a webpage is basically just a snazzy interface for a database, so the interface should allow for any kind of manipulation of the database that you'd need, and only stop you from doing something silly. :)

]]> chrishajer on "Change Post Author?" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/change-post-author#post-23260 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:56:06 +0000 chrishajer 23260@http://bbpress.org/forums/ If it's a one-time copy and paste type thing, why not just use phpMyAdmin and a query to update them all at the same time? I think people tend to create plugins they themselves have a need for, and so far there hasn't been a big need for this. I've needed to do it a couple times, for reasons johnjamesjacoby mentions, but it's pretty rare.

]]> mantuzuma on "Change Post Author?" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/change-post-author#post-23227 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 01:12:51 +0000 mantuzuma 23227@http://bbpress.org/forums/ I strongly support adding this functionality. It's true that I will probably not need it on a regular basis, but right now I'm trying to literally copy-paste some discussion threads from an online social networking site onto my new bbpress forum, and i'd love to be able to copy-paste a bunch of posts from a thread, and then quickly set their authors appropriately.

]]> John James Jacoby on "Change Post Author?" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/change-post-author#post-21266 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:15:22 +0000 John James Jacoby 21266@http://bbpress.org/forums/ It isn't about it being a regular basis, it's about it being possible.

In my testing and installing of bbPress, I usually bounce back and forth between a KeyMaster, an Admin, and a Member test account, and sometimes I am logged in and make a post under the wrong one. :)

It's more for convenience and possibility sake than it is for daily use or practicality.

Forums with many users would just have a million entries in the drop down. Heck I dunno man I just thought of this idea! :)

]]> _ck_ on "Change Post Author?" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/change-post-author#post-21265 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:37:12 +0000 _ck_ 21265@http://bbpress.org/forums/ I have a bit of code that does an ajax-ish drop down of all members and adding something up near the topic meta area is really easy but I still don't understand why you'd want to change the author of a topic on a regular basis?

]]> johnhiler on "Change Post Author?" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/change-post-author#post-21264 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:13:06 +0000 johnhiler 21264@http://bbpress.org/forums/ How would a list like that handle forums with lots of members?

]]> John James Jacoby on "Change Post Author?" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/change-post-author#post-21263 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:19:05 +0000 John James Jacoby 21263@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Nothing with roles, actually something much simpler.

As an administrator, I would like to have a drop-down list on the post-form.php that has a list of all forum members, so that I can assign or change the author of a post.

Within the <?php if ( is_bb_tag() || is_front() ) : ?> there would be another drop down list, but rather than forum, would be the list of authors to say started that topic.

]]> mvds on "Change Post Author?" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/change-post-author#post-21261 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:10:00 +0000 mvds 21261@http://bbpress.org/forums/ What do you mean exactly? You want to take over the owner role of a post?

So you post as user, but afterwards change the author to another name or what?

]]> John James Jacoby on "Change Post Author?" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/change-post-author#post-21257 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:07:23 +0000 John James Jacoby 21257@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Any plug-ins out there to add a change post author capability similar to WordPress, maybe in the admin panel or the admin area of the topic.php page?

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