Here’s a summary of the work done for clients last month:
- Updated a board from phpBB 3.3.2 to 3.3.8. As part of the job, I pdated two extensions: Precise Similar Topics and Topic Preview. I had to retrofit the old changes to prosilver to reintegrate the WordPress theme at the top, bottom and the sides. This involved two templates and one stylesheet. There was an issue getting into the ACP that was solved by disabling temporarily the WordFence plugin. Asked about moving to a subdomain but there was no web hosting control panel so I could not do that.
- Updated a board from phpBB 3.3.7 to 3.3.8. I updated the advertisement management extension to version 3.0.0. I edited the .htaccess file to show portal page first. I also provided guidance on ad placement and to not show them for certain groups.
- A client couldn’t get into the ACP. It turned out to be HTTP authentication issue for adm folder. I renamed the .htaccess file in that folder and I was able to get it.
- Troubleshooting. A client was having trouble setting up forum permissions so guests would only see one forum and that the rest would be for posting by registered users. Also set up a forum accessible only to administrators.
- Updated a board from phpBB 3.3.4 to 3.3.8. I also updated four extensions: Board rules, Notify admin on registration, Pages and Who visited this topic to latest versions.
- Added a user for a client to the administrators group so the user could access the special forum.
- Upgraded a board from phpBB 3.1.7-pl1 to 3.3.8. I also updated the Google Analytics extension, the Sortables captcha extension, the Danish language pack, and Elegance styles. I had to edit overall_header.html to put the old logo back in place. I also had to manually add a line to the .htaccess file to assert to use UTF-8 as the default character set. There was an issue figuring out how to connect using FTP and access files on the web host control panel.
- Upgraded a board from phpBB 3.2.5 to 3.3.8. I had to insert a directive into the .htaccess file to tell it to use PHP 7.4. I reapplied custom changes to prosilver style. I upgraded the Cleantalk extension to version 5.7.5 and fixed one services.yml incompatibility issue. I also updated latest version of American English language pack.
- Received a Dreamhost commission. Nice $99.61 commission, basically the first year of hosting for the client on a VPS solution.
- On a test board already upgraded to phpBB 3.3.8, I tried to replicate the old style and its custom changes to 3.3.8. Came very close and provided the style via a Google Drive share link. Still working with the client on tweaks to this.
- For my major commercial client, despite deployment of the upgrade in August, there is still work coming in. It amounted to about $1500 in work and it put me over my revenue goal for the year.
