A way to reorder posts?

[ianm (Ian)]

I have just changed the subcategory of a number of posts. In the process the posts have been given the current time and date. Inside the subcategory I can see their original dates. How do I return the posts to their original dates?

[JammyDodger]

Does resetting the bump date help with those? (in the topic admin wrench)

[ianm (Ian)]

Yes that fixed it . Thank you very much. Not sure how I missed it.

[Ethsim2 (Ethan)]

@ode2code

I created a new post with my introductory references to the original, then moved the replies from the original split to the new topic. After that, I deleted the original split.

I’ve needed to do this a few times with writing lab diaries on discourse, where i’ve missed logical steps in a diary, and editing a near post isn’t ideal.

I suppose there’s an easy way to re-order posts in a topic, whilst keeping the timestamps of each post, in command line. However, based on that there’s a theme component for a print button, i’ve voted for a plugin - for a re-order posts dialogue or similar.