The WordPress support forums, which include international and
\nlanguage-specific forums and power support and reviews for WordPress
\ncore, themes, and plugins, had been running on bbPress 1.x since their
\ninception. Issues with both security and stability were a constant
\nthreat and a move to bbPress 2 was well overdue, but no one was able
\nto tackle the upgrade. 11 million existing posts spread across more
\nthan twenty sites, custom configurations and plugins written for the
\nbbPress 1 codebase, and above all, an active userbase and new posts
\ncoming in constantly meant that the project was so unwieldy that it
\nwas hard to know where to begin.<\/p>\n
In the summer of 2016, I upgraded the WordPress.org support forums
\nfrom bbPress 1 to bbPress 2.x. This talk will be done as an interview
\nconducted by Mika Epstein.<\/p>\n
It will cover the following topics:
\n– Getting the lay of the land; figure out storage, destination,
\nsandbox, meta environment.
\n– Formulating goals: Minimize downtime, clean import, remove spam\/dead
\ntopics when possible.
\n– MVP in terms of forum functionality.
\n– Native bbPress importer versus direct SQL script.
\n– Community support and notification.
\n– Staging and testing on live sites.
\n– 10x rule for new problems: memory leaks, multibyte language character count
\ntruncation, different slug lengths between schemas, saturated postmeta queries.
\n– Planned downtime.
\n– WSOD disaster two days before the scheduled changeover at 95% data load.
\n– SUCCESS!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The WordPress support forums, which include international and language-specific forums and power support and reviews for WordPress core, themes, and plugins, had been running on bbPress 1.x since their inception. Issues with both security and stability were a constant threat and a move to bbPress 2 was well overdue, but no one was able to … <\/p>\n