FriendsOfFlarum Move Posts

FriendsOfFlarum · 2026-03-18T21:32:09+00:00

Move Posts A Flarum extension. Move posts from one discussion to another. WARNING: This extension can in certain scenarios result in breaking old URLs to posts of the discussion you're moving posts to. Usage Simple Move VS Complex Move The extension allows you to select multiple posts to move from one discussion to another. Certain scenarios are not allowed, while others are allowed but yield to different results. Moving posts can either be a simple process of pushing the posts at the end of the target discussion, or it can be a complicated process of pushing the posts in between the target discussion's posts, thus breaking the target discussion posts's old URLs (meaning old URLs will no longer point to the correct posts, because we update their number field to allow squeezing in the moved posts). Which method will be chosen depends on the creation date of the posts being moved, and the creation date of the target discussion's last post. The extension makes knowing which method will be used easily, by providing a Check Operation Type button in the relevant modal, so that you know what you're dealing with before proceeding. The following diagram summarizes the couple scenarios: Moving The First Post When moving the first post of a discussion: If the discussion only has that one post, that post will be replace by a normal post with the content The discussion has been moved to Target Discussion (the content is customizable through the admin panel). If the discussion has multiple posts, the first post will be replaced by an event posts (as per usual) and the second post will be set as first. Event Posts Moved posts are replaced by event posts. Installation Install with composer: composer require fof/move-posts if(window.hljsLoader && !document.currentScript.parentNode.hasAttribute('data-s9e-livepreview-onupdate')) { window.hljsLoader.highlightBlocks(document.currentScript.parentNode); } Updating composer update fof/move-posts --with-dependencies php flarum migrate php flarum cache:clear if(window.hljsLoader && !document.currentScript.parentNode.hasAttribute('data-s9e-livepreview-onupdate')) { window.hljsLoader.highlightBlocks(document.currentScript.parentNode); } Links Packagist GitHub Discuss

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rafaucau thank you for your thoughtful and fast reply!

rafaucau "make public" permission

in my forum this is something which members are able to do, so i will try it out how it works together.

wbntff

rafaucau
Old forum has 25000+ posts and its not feasible to search and fix each post manually in database.
To write custom sql script, i've very limited idea of mysql

so i'll try this extension and see how it goes

Wlork

@rafaucau

Issue : in version 1.x, you can't enable the extension after installing it....

Capybara

Wlork This kind of issue is always recorded in the logs. If you provide them, someone will be able to help you

Wlork

Capybara This kind of issue is always recorded in the logs. If you provide them, someone will be able to help you

There's no error message. I just can't activate.... To clarify, I'm only talking about v1.x.

In v2.x, it works perfectly fine 🙂

Capybara

Wlork There's no error message

When you click the toggle to enable the extension and it doesn’t turn on, an error is written to the Flarum logs in /storage/logs/. Is there anything there?

wbntff

rafaucau It should work. But in your case, it would probably be better to fix it manually in the database or write an SQL script to reorder the posts, rather than trying to hack around it with the move-posts extension.

It works !!
I tried in one topic, where i moved out a misplaced post into new topic and then moved it back into old topic, it adjusted at right place (by post date).
Now challenge is : finding all such misplaced posts in 25000+ posts

FoF Bot

🚀 New Release: v2.0.0-beta.5

Targets Flarum 2.x

Released by: @IanM
Release URL: FriendsOfFlarum/move-postsreleases/tag/v2.0.0-beta.5

[2.x] chore: Update PHPUnit config for Flarum 2 / PHPUnit 12 by @IanM in FriendsOfFlarum/move-posts2
[2.x] chore: Add PHPStan scaffold and fix reported errors by @IanM in FriendsOfFlarum/move-posts3
[2.x] feat: Add flarum/audit support by @IanM in FriendsOfFlarum/move-posts4