Version: 0.0.1
Last Updated: 2009-7-9
Requires bbPress Version: 0.9 or higher
Compatible up to: 0.9
Allows administrators to change hidden post settings including the author and timestamp. Use at your own risk.
Be careful as there currently is no validation on the changes you make - if you set the date out of bounds you may cause the topic to disappear.
Some plugins track the author of a post independently, which might cause problems, for example if you change the user and a post has attachments, the new author may not be able to delete the old attachments.
Ok, this is a seriously cool extension. It can even be used to rudimentary merge topics manually. Awesome, thank you!
Let me go out on a limb here and say that it's working with my 1.01 install, hopefully it won't break anything in the longer run.
I have some gallery threads which I keep updated for users and it's really neat to post these changes under their alias.
A usage question: The "Position" attribute doesn't seem to change a thing for the post unless you put in a fitting date to match the chronology, e.g. if I have two posts and #1 is dated Jun 23 2009 19:35:42, the other Jun 23 2009 19:35:49, #1 would show up first even if I would change it's position to #2.
In the faq I mention how there is little use currently for the post_position in bbPress.
It's not used properly, instead date is used because after the original bbPress design it became more reliable.
Post Position 1 is used in some cases, but rarely if ever beyond that.
One day when topic split/merge is officially in the API, post position will be critical and change everything (again) and break everything (again).
I would strongly caution against using this (or the old move-it plugin) to split/merge topics.
Ok, got it. So it's probably wise to at least match both settings when doing any fiddling with either one of them.
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