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I was really surprised to hear that it is not currently possible to change the owner resp. author of a story (hacking the database directly doesn"t count, mind you). I am a new user of Geeklog, but I can't imagine that I alone want such a feature.

So my question is: is there a plugin available to accomplish this, or is such a feature in Geeklog v2? I currently have a lot of real-world scenarios where I really want to change the ownership of a story. And in particular, I'ld like to give a handful of trusted site admins the opportunity too, without giving them raw access to the underlying databse.

Heck, even Movable Type can do that...

Vil

I would love to have this feature too. For admin only, of course.

Sam

Agree.. Or at least a quick hack will do, right?

just curious...
why would you want to change the author of a story?

Often on community sites, the admin gets sent a story by some user who is not up to (or doesn't wasnt to learn how to) use geeklog. The admin then posts the story - it would be nice to be able to post as that person.

Cheers,

Euan.

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-- Heather Engineering
-- No job too small

I agree. Even though you can hide the "Contributed by" line on the main page, the unreal contributer's name, in the above case "Admin", is displayed everywhere else, such as the printer friendly version, digest version, and emailed version.

Hope this is not a difficult hack. I am still PHP illiterate, so I can't tell.

Sam

yes this is a great idea and woudl be desirable

The change author feature is essential for copyright protection. Please update Geeklog to include it.

www.bluesforpeace.com/blog

It's now been done a couple ways (by more clever folks than me) but I use one of these and it works like a champ.

howto set a different author?

Read the question and the three followups for my story...someone of course might add more...

BTW I've added this comment because "change author" seems like a better keyword search than my post titile.

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Tom
www.southparkcity.com

I released a new version of this static page, reducing the overheads when you have MANY users, stories, comments or links

see this thread

When trying this on GL 1.4 I get this:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected '{' in /geeklogpath/public_html/staticpages/index.php(56) : eval()'d code on line 44

What to fix? Im not able to find anything wrong.