If everything was created months ago, you can fast-forward the time stamp possibly. For example if the last thing was created 90 days ago you could do something like:
$dbprefix = elgg_get_config('dbprefix');
$fastforward = 60*60*24*90; // 90 days
$q = "UPDATE {$dbprefix}entities SET time_created = (time_create + {$fastforward})";
update_data($q);
Do the same thing for time_updated, and again on the annotations/relationships/metadata tables.
Not sure if there's any gotchas to beware of, this is definitely something you'll want to test first and have a reliable backup you can roll back to.
I came across this plugin just yesterday (not tested myself yet): https://github.com/ColdTrick/entity_tools
You might be able to backdate at least the blog posts and pages using this plugin. With comments it's different because they are not Elgg entities but annotations. But maybe you can enhance the plugin on your own to meet your needs.
Eliminating the timestamps might be possible by simply changing the output format of the friendly_time view. Instead of using the date format as it is you could simply not define any format at all.
Thanks folks! This is really helpful. I'll probably be back with troubleshooting questions, but this is at least a place to start.
Hi Matt,
Thanks for the feedback--that was really helpful. It's mostly
Unfortunately, I don't have money to hire someone so I'm on my own on this one. Do you (or anyone else reading) happen to know of any guide/listing of all the data available via elgg? I'm happy to wade through a long, unnecessarily detailed document, if it exists. Thanks in advance!
I'm not sure such a detailed list exists, the real answer is *everything* - all data is/can be available. It's just a matter of teasing into a useful view/format.
Good to know. Thanks.
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