| Syd Lexia wrote: |
| I've been wanting to upgrade the forums for awhile now, but I am concerned my current template will be incompatible with it. I been wanting to upgrade the Wordpress blog for even longer, but I have held off for the same reason. I'd really like to make the blog look a little nicer too. |
PHPBB3 uses a different template engine than PHPBB2. Moving your data over will be easy, however the style of it will need to be recreated.
Based on my past experience and seeing how you have your forum setup, I would guess it is about 5-8 hours worth of work to get it tweaked out the way you want it. But if you prepare for it, you can drastically cut down that time.
Some tips to make a conversion much easier:
- Write down all the color codes you use on your site. To me, it looks like:
---- Purple: #9966FF
---- Green: #00FF00
---- White: #FFFFFF
---- Gray: #333333
- Write down all the fonts you use on your site. To me it looks like:
---- Comic Sans MS
- Copy the Template images that were self created to your {root directory}/forumimages/ . To me, I saw:
----
http://www.sydlexia.com/forums/templates/fionefourocean/images/phpbb2_logo.gif
- Download the Style Sheet from the old template. Yours was located here:
----
http://www.sydlexia.com/forums/templates/fionefourocean/fionefourocean.css
- Backup the actual site content (All Folders and Files)
- Backup your MySQL Database
---- Here is one way to do it:
http://www.phpbb.com/support/documentation/2.0/#section3_2_1
---- I gotta be honest, I would do a MYSQLDUMP, but you need to have SSH/Telnet Access to your server to do it.
-------- This is for another forum but it will work as long as you know your database name:
http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/maintenance_ssh_backup
The CSS file is going to be a reference for building the new template. It should guide you as to what colors go where and other details.
