sermonindex seeks to migrate their large Xoops forum (100k+ users, 400k+ posts) to Discourse on a subdomain (forums.sermonindex), with matching header, footer, and CSS styling to their new React-based site. They aim to complete this within 1-4 weeks and offer $300–350 USD. They’ve shared design assets in post 2 to aid customization. pfaffman notes no existing Xoops-to-Discourse migration script exists, estimating migration alone at $1500+, with styling costs varying based on complexity. sermonindex clarifies they only need header/footer/width alignment for seamless integration, acknowledging the custom nature of the work but stating the quoted price is beyond their shoestring budget, which relies heavily on volunteer efforts.
There is no existing script to migrate Xoops, so it’s a bit of work to do that.
You can see Redirecting… but the migration part alone would start at $1500.
The customization, depending on how closely you want it to match could fit your budget, but if you’ve got fancy javascript that you need integrated into discourse, it could be a quite a bit of work.
We are just looking for the header and footer to essentially be customized and the width also trying to match our site so it would feel abit seamless.
Yes it would be custom work, if there was a script to just run, we would add it to our list to easily get done. Just wanted to try and get someone who knows discourse more as it would be an easier task for them.
That is well outside our budget we run on a shoe-string budget and the migrated site was mostly done by volunteer work.
