Add batch changing for author and date

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Add batch changing for author and date

Post by annahersh » Wed Nov 11, 2020 3:57 am

I have a client who dropped a publisher and wanted to move all their 1,372 articles to a different author, and of course individual editing would be a major tedious process. I had to make a system plugin to handle the task.

I think adding batch author change and even batch date change would be excellent value.
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Re: Add batch changing for author and date

Post by erwinthedevil » Mon Jun 28, 2021 11:45 am

I agree with you. The feature of batch author change will solve the problem.

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Re: Add batch changing for author and date

Post by Per Yngve Berg » Mon Jun 28, 2021 12:03 pm

Does the old author still need to login on the site?

You could have changed the name of the user.

sit could also be done with an update SQL query.

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Re: Add batch changing for author and date

Post by brian » Mon Jun 28, 2021 2:54 pm

You cant have an option in core to perform everything you can possibly think of
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