475659 Joomla Expert Needed to Migrate Old Site

Migrate the ElectronicMother dot com Joomla 1.0 site to latest Joomla 1.5 This job requires a minimum of 5 years experience in: Joomla 1.0 administration, Joomla 1.0 template writing, and hacking of Joomla 1.0 php/MySQL modules and components. (Of course it also requires 1.5 experience.) Please do not respond if you lack *any* of this, including custom hacking of old modules and components. If you do, you will end up spending more time than you expect, and you will not be able to replicate the appearance and behavior of the original site exactly in all its details, which is what is required! In other words, I want someone who was comfortable hacking 1.0 modules back in the days when this site was new. This 2006 site is running Joomla 1.0.12 and the following components must be upgraded: Community Builder 1.0.2 FireBoard 1.0.0 beta fbFeed DocMan 1.4.0 RC3 JCE and the following modules must be upgraded and set up to duplicate the old site: mod_php mod_fblatest mod_randomquotes 1.1 mod_em_latestnews mod_em_newsflash mod_em_recurring_content mod_em_mostread also: fb_discussbot If any 1.0 component, module or plugin doesn't exist for J 1.5, an alternative with similar function must be found, installed, and configured to mimic the old appearances and behaviors -- and its data either migrated or re-entered. In the case of the em modules, if you find they no longer work in 1.5, you can easily re-apply the small well-documented hacks to recreate each em module out of the corresponding Joomla 1.5 core modules. Even though the upgraded DocMan component might require legacy mode for now (at the moment I don't recall if it does), the site's custom template still needs to be rewritten to work natively in Joomla 1.5. And this template doesn't just load module positions, the layout changes based on the component and task_option in the URL; and perhaps whether or not the user is logged in. (You probably should to turn it into two templates, and take advantage of new J 1.5 features plus install the Advanced Module Manager admin component to assign the templates to different menu items and/or user classes.) FireBoard must be migrated to the latest Kunena with all data and appearance intact. New JCE must be configured for same toolbar layouts as before. But here are some differences that the new site *should* have: The updated site must be in the /public_html/ directory rather than the /public_html/cms/ subdirectory where the old site is. Leave the old site intact where it is -- for results comparison, and for reference to its parameters and settings. Add the Joomla 1.5 "Advanced Module Manager" admin component as soon as you install the new Joomla 1.5 -- it will help the rest of the tasks immensely. Also, you can use it (plus other features new to 1.5) to replicate some of the layout effects coded into the old template, without needing coding any longer. Activate captcha to the CB registration, and a custom required CB field to the CB registration (also to deflect bots). You may have to study and re-hack the cb_login module to enable it to mimic the layout of the old one. (All the old hacks are clearly commented, and tagged with my initials for easy scanning to find.) Delete all the spambot users that have registered on the vulnerable old site: anyone whose first name, last name, and userid are identical -- anyone who's never logged on since joining -- and: Since downloads no longer require registration, you could delete every user that is not an administrator and who hasn't posted in the forums and who hasn't registered within the last year. Keep any who have posted or who have registered recently -- they may be intending to post.) You will have full cpanel access and Joomla admin access on the old site.