Removing the Last Edited By Notification in a Vbulletin Post

Published by John on July 18, 2012 Under Wordpress

While working on a vBulletin Site where we have modified the bbcode class a good bit in order to display a notificaiton on scaled images, I ended up editing a users post a bit.

As a result, it said ‘Last edited by MY USERNAME Today at’ in the bottom of the post.

This is the text printed from the ‘last_edited_by_x_on_y_at_z’ phrase. This isn’t a big deal, but I still wanted to remove this from the post, as I hadn’t made any real changes.

To remove the last edited notification on a single post:

• Make a backup of your database
• In the postedithistory table, search by postid to find the edits for that post. You can delete the rows that have your username in the username column
• In the editlog table, also searching by postid, change the userid and username for that post to the last user that edited it.

The post should now no longer display your username in the last edited dialog.

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