How to Migrate Joomla to WordPress |
| November 1, 2010 |
This tutorial will show you how to migrate a Joomla 1.5 site to WordPress 3.1. We're going to do this with an existing Joomla site and a brand-new WordPress site. There are two things to note before we start:
Delete All Existing WordPress ContentFirst we need to make room in order to import all our Joomla articles. So, even though we're starting with a brand-new WordPress site, we need to make sure that all existing content is deleted:  Go to the Posts tab and delete all the all existing posts.  Go to the Posts >> Categories tab and delete all the all existing categories.  Go to the Pages tab and delete all the all existing pages. Install Joomla/Mambo To WordPress Migrator Go to the Plugins tab and search for the "Joomla/Mambo To WordPress Migrator". That is the plugin we're going to use to move our articles to WordPress. Install and activate that plugin.  You'll find the settings for the Joomla/Mambo To WordPress Migrator by going to the Settings >> Joomla2WP tab. Configuring Joomla2WP Enter all of the database information for your Joomla and WordPress sites. If you don't know what it is, you can visit your files and take the information from Joomla's configuration.php and WordPress' wp-config.php. It's important to note that there is only room for one login here. Joomla2WP requires that both site been on the same server, but normally they will have different logins. You'll need to go to your hosting account and either give your "MySQL Server User" access to both the Joomla and WordPress databases.  Success! If everything has gone smoothly, Joomla2WP will list of all the categories it has moved and it will show a "Migration done" message. Visit the front of your site and you should see all of your Joomla articles now converted to WordPress posts:  |
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Why Joomla to WP? Here are two ideas:
1) The client / user might just be more comfortable using WP or might just not know Joomla at all
2) WP does have better features in some areas such as multisites
WP 3.0+ beats Joomla with its core multisite capability, SEO readiness, new menu and custom content type capabilities, its superior themes, its child theme system, post version control, category multimapping, core tagging and comments, URL aliasing and search that works.
If you can do it in WP, you should because it will be simpler and less onerous to maintain. The only reason for using Joomla now is that Drupal is still harder for people to learn and operate. If you need complex, specialized applications (even something as simple as a calendar or forum) WP is not there yet, but Joomla has many options.
We appreciate your thoughtful comments! It's good to get some discussion like this! :)
Yes, each of CMSs have their own strengths and weaknesses. By far the biggest advantage of WP is its ease of use which is manifested through out the CMS, while Joomla's biggest strength is it's 3rd party extensions.
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Nick
I built a couple of sites in Joomla (which I love and am more familiar with), but when I wanted to turn them over to others to run, they didn't know how to use Joomla and so migrating them using these instructions worked great.
I really appreciate the detailed article. You guys are the best!
:) Dana
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Nick
Yes, that's definitely a must.
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Nick
Sorry for the delay in responding. If you have any more questions, feel free to ask in the support forum where we answer everything within a day. It's tough keeping track of all the blog comments as we have hundreds of blog posts.
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Nick
Yes, the Joomla site will remain intact.
Sorry for the delay in responding. If you have any more questions, feel free to ask in the support forum where we answer everything within a day. It's tough keeping track of all the blog comments as we have hundreds of blog posts.
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Nick
I assume the method above does not import the joomla design into wordpress?
I have a joomla theme template and would like to have the template for a new wordpress installation.
is there a relatively easy way i can do this so my wordpress site design has the joomla look and design
many thanks
Steve
Correct, this will move all of your Joomla articles and convert them into WordPress posts. However, it won't move any components, templates (design), modules or plugins. Those will need to be re-created on your WordPress site.
You should check with your template provider as many that create Joomla templates also have a WordPress theme with the same design.
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Nick
if some one have any idea . how to do that ?
share with me ..
thanks
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Nick
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Nick
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Nick
I'm sorry but this plugin hasn't satisfied me, do you know how many problems and derelictions you are faced with these plugins: there isn't comment, tag and image migration, problems with other languages, limited features, no filter of post content, it migrates ton of unnecessary codes, problem with db connection (if J and WP are in diff server), no good support, no image source url correction, and other lots of things. I'd prefer to use some prof services to do it with small cost.
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Nick
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User Migration
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Nick
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I can migrate from joomla to wordpress successfully
but i have a problem
my articles ,users and my categories transfered very well but its show ?????????? means show (?).
my article language is persian-arabic and I set utf8 in setting but not working.
please help me to solve this problem
Thanks A lot
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You should consider becoming a student as you'll learn a lot more and save your days/weeks of work :)
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Nick
Sorry, I haven't used them. A good way to get an idea is to check out their support forum (if they have one) and also their reviews at wordpress.org
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Nick
Unfortunately, this won't for easyblog. You'd need a custom script to be able to migrate easy blog, since there isn't one available (as far as I'm aware).
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Nick
I have been looking for this for months... we are now hand moving over a 1500 post website. Eeek.
Great work
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Nick
I am using wamp local server,settings are localhost, root, without password, name of the db is correct (i use both joomla and wp correctly). But I get this message "MySQL Connection and Table Data not complete !!!. "
Joomla version is 1.5.22 and wp is 3.3.1
Any advice?
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