Nowadays the Professional Services groups seems mostly used by people seeking (professional) help and not by developers offering themselves to take jobs. I also don't know how many people might seek help of a freelances for an Elgg job elsewhere (or where this might be). I afraid that specific Elgg development might not be as sought nowadays as it might have been some years ago.

If you want to get hired as freelancer for Elgg jobs, you might want to start here on the site by providing some infos about yourself and what services you can offer on your profile page, possibly also link to a website of yours where you could also display some of your working experience. And you might want to check the professional services group regularly for new posts from people seeking professional help and then reply on their postings if you think the jobs are alright for you. I just don't think that you would get enough jobs this way alone to have a full time schedule with Elgg related jobs. Maybe also check other sites where job offers for freelancers might be posted. As Elgg is a framework there might be some projects that could be realized by building up on Elgg even if this is not explicitely said so (as the person looking for a freelancer to build a "website" might not know what the best approach might be and might never had heard about Elgg even if it might fit for the project in some cases).

I don't know if it might help to get in contact with some companies that also offer Elgg services (like http://www.coldtrick.com and https://www.arckinteractive.com). They might be in need for some freelancers sometimes if they have more work than workers and both sides might benefit in the long run if you do good work. Maybe they have no jobs at hand immediatelly but they might get in contact with you at a later time once they have some additional work.

My involvement with Elgg is really limited these days and I have no interest in answering basic questions on how to get things done, when there is extensive documentation on the subject. I have given you the script that should have solved the problem, and instead I am the bad one for not taking more of my time to answer more questions.

Where would the source be hardcoded? In one of the plugins? I doubt it, but grep your code base and change it if it is hardcoded indeed. If you have changed the domain of absolute URLs in the database and it still doesn't work than the problem is with either routing or location of files.

Thank you for your response Ismayil, I have read the documentation extensively and I cannot solve the issue quickly, I will however solve it in time. If you have no interest in answering questions then I suggest you do not in future for your only effect here has been to fail to provide a cogent solution and offend a learning ELGG user with your arrogant and intolerant responses.

I have provided reasonable detail in my request, politely sought clarification and expressed gratitude for help and your response has not been less than that expected of an "expert" in a community.

I don't know what you were expecting in my responses but if you expected me to fellate you; sorry buddy I don't swing that way.

Based on the single time I have posted a request for technical support and the feral response received it's probably a pretty good indicator we should migrate away from ELGG to a more friendly framework and community

Brett, I am sorry, if I come across as arrogant and intolerant. I have seen enough learning Elgg users in this community in the last 10 years to be frustrated when the little time I have to browse through community postings are spent reading posts that have been asked and answered before.

In the end I figured out how to deploy the script, as far as I can see it changes the url entries in the database (??) and these have already been updated.

The script made no change, it appears with embedding an image the src is hard coded in rather than dynamic and hence database changes make no difference

This should have been posted to the thread you have originally started and we could have taken it from there. In this context it doesn't make sense - so does it work or does it not? You say you manually changed some URLs and I presume that worked for those images. The script I posted has automated the process for you, and it looks like it does its job by altering the URLs in the database. So, I don't understand what kind of different outcome you expect.

Good luck and thanks for reminding that I should completely retire from this community. I am just done.