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How to change a blog post's author

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    jeremyk Reply #1, 12 years, 3 months ago
    How do you change a blog post's author in Revolution 2.2.?

    For context, we want to update the author name because we contracted a web developer to recreate our WordPress website in MODx.

    Thanks in advance.
    • sottwell Reply #2, 12 years, 3 months ago
      To the best of my knowledge, the only way you could do it would be directly change the "createdby" field in the database. You would have to know the ID of the user you wanted and change the relevant resource's createdby to that user's ID. It could be simplified using an update query with a WHERE parent = <blog posts' parent ID> clause.
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        jeremyk Reply #3, 12 years, 3 months ago
        For those not too enthusiastic about db diving, I accidentally found out that the nifty Batcher component offers a bulk option to change post author!