Author and post date editing

[TimeWizardCosmo]

Is there a plugin or other reliable method to change a post's author and post date?

Editing the DB is fine, but I'm not sure what's connected to what.

 

[Jake Bunce]

You can edit the associated record in the xf_post table. But there may be unintended consequences, such as affecting the order of posts in a thread.

 

[TimeWizardCosmo]

I'm helping with a project that has a random tertiary database of content we may want to import. There's no real way to import it, and I'm told it's small enough to do by hand so we're just going to copy and paste the content manually.

Everything will be edited in sequence so the post order should work itself out. Is it really as easy as

 

[vkams]

I need this option! It was helpful in my old phpBB2 forum.

 

[Walkman Archive]

You can edit the associated record in the xf_post table. But there may be unintended consequences, such as affecting the order of posts in a thread.

Can this be edited within Xenforo or is this something related to the server database?
Can you explain an easy way to do that for a newbie which has very few knowledge about databases?
thanks

 

[AndyB]

The best way to change the post date and author is to use these two add-on:

https://xenforo.com/community/resources/change-date.2371/

https://xenforo.com/community/resources/change-author.2832/

 

[Walkman Archive]

Thanks a lot, Andy! Great resources!

 

[Gsk8]

The best way to change the post date and author is to use these two add-on:

https://xenforo.com/community/resources/change-date.2371/

https://xenforo.com/community/resources/change-author.2832/

Is it possible that both these addons could be merged into one?

Thanks for all yourwork!

 

[beerForo]

Is there a plugin or other reliable method to change a post's author and post date?

Editing the DB is fine, but I'm not sure what's connected to what.

Is it possible that both these addons could be merged into one?

Thanks for all yourwork!

This:

Unmaintained - Change Content Owner or Date

Change Content Owner or Date for XenForo 2.0.10+ Description This add-on allows you to change the owner of content or the timestamp content. Requirements PHP 7.1.0+ Options Change content owner NameDescription Default time interval...

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Does this:

 

[beerForo]

 

[Chromaniac]

using change content owner these days and i can confirm it works fine! (first post of thread has option hidden in the thread menu. posts have links inside posts)