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hazelorb
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Re: changing dates?
« Reply #15 on Mar 21, 2007, 8:03pm »

really? in gm 1.21?

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Re: changing dates?
« Reply #16 on Apr 7, 2007, 11:15am »

i tried to use wordpress but it is just not as easy to customize as greymatter. so i think what i might do is make the subject of my entries dates and just remove the actual date from the layout.

but i hope somehow we can change the actual dates one day. is there a link to that version of greymatter? i know there used to be one.

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Re: changing dates?
« Reply #17 on Apr 9, 2007, 2:53pm »

Hazelorb: Not sure about GreyMatter 1.21, since the latest version I have been able to find on the net is 1.3.1. I know that is the case with 1.3.1 and above.

Becky: If you are comfortable and careful with editing the files directly, you can alter the dates on them too.

Everyone: The major issue with changing the dates is that alot of GreyMatter code assumes that the entries are sorted by date. It assumes that if you have an entry of 2/28, and the next one is 3/1, that there isn't going to be anymore February posts. This impacts rebuilding files, template translation, generating the calendar, creating archives, etc.

This doesn't make it impossible, just that it will take time and thought.

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Re: changing dates?
« Reply #18 on Jan 4, 2008, 2:43pm »

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Out of curiosity, is this a feature someone wants? I am wondering what the motivation is behind wanting to change the date (maybe the motivation can be satisfied another way)?

I can see for a 'Draft' type feature, people would want the Draft to have the date it was finished, not started. This is a feature I and Pete have been looking at, so comments/opinions welcome.

I've had a couple of cases where I wanted to change the date on an entry, usually because I updated it and wanted it to appear after other posts, for example.

I'd like the feature if it were available, but it's not a deal breaker.

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Re: changing dates?
« Reply #19 on Jan 4, 2008, 6:25pm »

good to know. The only way I can think of now for letting people change the date, would be to repost the article to the most recent. Otherwise the entries have to be renumbered.

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Re: changing dates?
« Reply #20 on Jan 8, 2008, 4:31pm »

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good to know. The only way I can think of now for letting people change the date, would be to repost the article to the most recent. Otherwise the entries have to be renumbered.

That would probably work, especially if coupled with an auto-close or delete of the original. Only hiccup might be if any comments had been posted to the original entry - you would want to preserve those.

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Re: changing dates?
« Reply #21 on Jan 8, 2008, 6:12pm »

Right. In fact this is how I imagine draft posts working. It is basically treated as closed, until it is published, in which case the old one is auto-closed, and a new one is opened as the most recent.

But yeah, comments would be brought along as well.

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Re: changing dates?
« Reply #22 on Jan 10, 2008, 1:40pm »

I imagined you could also do x00000000.cgi and then just grep for those in an edit drafts screen. You could use the same open/closed notation in the file to mark if they have been published or not. Then they wouldn't interfere with real entries. Either way you implement it, it seems like a great feature to try and include if there's time.

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Re: changing dates?
« Reply #23 on Jan 10, 2008, 4:38pm »

This isn't on the plate for 1.8.1, but rather sometime in the future.

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