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This may be a ‘newbie’ question, but I haven’t tripped across the answer yet when doing some quick searches…

What is the easiest way to display the author of the latest revision of an entry (Revisions are turned ‘on’) instead of the original entry creator/author?

Thanks,

Ted

What we ended up doing was replacing line 1139 on the controller:

system_dir\expressionengine\controllers\cp\content_publish.php

with:

$data[‘author_id’] = $this->session->userdata(‘member_id’);

to always update edited posts with the current author’s id so that the author tag will always give you the last person who touched the file. With revisions enabled we can see the last 10 revisions as well so its a good way to keep tabs on each entry.

I know it’s editing the core controllers, maybe someone has a nicer solution using a hook or extension?

Hope it helps.

Ryan

I don’t know of any plugins for that so the best option may be the query module. This isn’t tested but after a quick look SQL like the following should work…

SELECT M.username, M.screen_name FROM exp_entry_versioning V LEFT JOIN exp_members M ON M.member_id = V.author_id WHERE entry_id = {entry_id} ORDER BY version_id DESC LIMIT 1

I developed a plugin “Entry Revisions”. Hope it would useful for someone having same need. One can download from here: http://www.sidd3.com/entry-revisions-plugin/