XF 2.1 Possible to change the Thread Starter?

[WRIST.pub]

We have anonymous writing competitions, and all entries are posted by one "Host" account. At the end of the competition, when I had 1.5x running, I had an add-on that gave Mods the ability to change the Thread Starter by just typing their name in a field and hit enter. This allowed us an easy way to get the stories attributed to the original authors.

I can't see how to do this in 2.1, and I don't see any add-ons that can do it.

Other than having to go directly into the databases with phpmyadmin and manipulate things there, does anyone have any easier way? I'm hoping it's like "Dude, blah blah blah, how did you miss that?"

Thanks in advance.

Rob

 

[SyTry]

Hello,

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[Ozzy47]

Other than having to go directly into the databases with phpmyadmin and manipulate things there

That would not be recommended. There is more to change than just a thread starter. Doing so could put your DB in an inconsistent state.

I would use the addon suggested above.

 

[WRIST.pub]

I added the add-on since I have other stuff from Andy. Must have missed that. Thanks. And, I used to do it the phpmyadmin way. Yep, there were several things that needed to be change. Wrote out the step by step instructions. Just quite a bit more work, that's for sure!