Migrating Elgg to BuddyPress and bbPress
By Bob Teree
I just wanted to alert folks that we just completed a crazy complex project migrating a 40K user Elgg installation to a combo BuddyPress and bbPress installation. This included mapping all database tables in Elgg to their best counterparts in BuddyPress. The site that we migrated to WordPress (and BuddyPress and bbPress) is www.HeartIFB.com. We learned tons about performance issues and the ungodly database structure of Elgg. It was far easier to understand BuddyPress. I would be happy to help anyone attempting to do the same thing. Our database is about 1.9GB, 40K users, with 1,000's of posts. It's also a fully responsive design with a single code base. Happy to help as we learned an immense amount during this project.
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You must log in to post replies.Hey Bob: That sounds just great!;-) We'll be waiting to see some.. all of the code that you;ve used for the database tables' mapping.. Sure others could learn from your code efforts as well, thanks n advance soo much for your cooperation and the publishing of that code-base.
It would be useful for Elgg as a project if you could go into detail about the problems you had that prompted the change.
For the record, this community site is of comparable size and is not apparently having the same level of performance problems. Would love to know more details.
Database mapping? That would be hell... why did you not use export/import features? What was the main reason of the move?
Troll?
Yes there's been a few lately, or one dude with a few accounts more likely
@Matt - PM or email the usernames and I'll handle them if you think they're the same person trolling.
I am looking for somebody who can do this for a site I am updating. If you are still offering your services, please let me know what you charge. my email: firsttakepr@aol.com