Christianity Board
History & Information
ChristianityBoard.com is an online community with over 20,000 members. In 2017, I negotiated the purchase of Christianity Board from the current owner and for the company Group Net, LLC of which I was the Webmaster and Chief Operating Officer.
At the time of the purchase, Christianity Board was running on an outdated version of Invision Forum. As our company used XenForo for our online communities, I immediately started the process of moving from Invision's forum software to the XenForo forum software. In just over a month from the purchase of Christianity Board, the community was migrated to the XenForo forum software and our best practices for our online communities were put into place.
Converted over 8GB of MySQL data from the Invision Forum platform to the XenForo platform while documenting and troubleshooting the migration locally before doing the final live migration.
Worked with XenForo developers to migrate custom Invision plugin code to XenForo compatiable code.
Worked with an XenForo designer to develop a custom theme that would bring a fresh and modern look to the website, while bringing a mobile first design to Christianity Board for the first time.
Moved Christianity Board on to a dedicated web server powered by CentminMod. Optimized specifically for high PHP and MySQL throughput.
Developed a monetization platform on Google Ad Manager using 3rd party ad networks. Eventually would move to AdThrive and see our revenue increase by nearly 100 percent.
Through our ownership of Christianity Board, I implemented SEO best practices, engadged with the community to solicit feedback for new features, implemented the features, created a social network presence and began marketing, and worked with the volunteer administrators and moderators to provide new tools to ensure that the community remained a safe and friendly place for members.
In July of 2022, I negotiated the sale of Christian Forums, along with ChristianityBoard.com.
In October of 2022, I was hired by the new owner of Christianity Board to upgrade the website from XenForo 1.5.x to the latest 2.2.x version.