Case studies
Each one is a full write-up of what the client needed, what I did and how it turned out. These are selected projects, not a complete list. Repeat work of the same kind is written up once rather than every time.
Five years of phpBB work for one publisher
Six separate phpBB contracts with the same client between 2016 and 2021. It started with a single extension install and ended with a version upgrade that had to carry a whole set of modified extensions along with it.
A sixteen-year-old phpBB 2 board brought up to the current version
A bulletin board that had been running phpBB 2.0.11 since around 2005, moved onto the current phpBB 3 release with its posts and user base intact.
A community forum kept current across seven updates
The same client hired me seven times between 2019 and 2024 to update one phpBB board and adjust it as their branding changed.
A forum where no email worked and nobody could reach the admin panel
Signup confirmations and alerts had stopped sending, so new members couldn't register, and then the admin account locked itself out because password resets went through the same broken email.
Old phpBB forum moved into bbPress on WordPress
An old phpBB board moved into bbPress on WordPress. I carried across the whole category structure, the posts, attachments, users and groups, so none of the forum's history got left behind.
A forum and its image gallery after a server move
A community forum with a separate image gallery had been moved to a new server by someone else. Image links across the board were dead, and a large part of the gallery had never arrived.