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JoomStew Radio is Migrating from WordPress to Joomla!

Wordpress is Not Equal to Joomla

Well, it looks like we are finally going to make the move from WordPress to Joomla starting this week. We will not be posting a show over the next few weeks, and hopefully this will be the last blog post on this platform.

Dianne suggested we should make a case study out of this experience, so taking her idea one step farther, I decided I would do a live blog series over on my business site at Roberts Web Design.

So if you want to know the details of how we are migrating from WordPress 3.2 to Joomla 1.5, then Joomla 1.6 and finally Joomla 1.7 when it's released in a few weeks, you can follow along there. Here's the first post in the series:

Migrating From WordPress 3.1 to Joomla 1.7 - Part 1

About Robert Vining

An avid Joomla! supporter, Robert Vining spends most of his days developing cool new joomla websites for clients of Roberts Web Design, answering questions as a SobiPro Support Team member for the SobiPro Directory Component, mingling with cool Joomla folks as an Admin at All Together As a Whole and also runs a small SobiPro Template club called Sobi Templates.

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Sergey
July 5th, 2011 - 08:15

Waiting case study. Thanks, Robert

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Robert Went
August 3rd, 2011 - 15:48

Have you checked the JED? There are a few components to import wordpress content to 1.5, and other extensions to transfer to 1.6/1.7

http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/migration-a-conversion/data-import-a-export/10237

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Robert Vining
August 3rd, 2011 - 16:15

Yep, that’s the one we’re using actually… I’ve already done a test run on localhost and it works pretty well.

Downside is, I lost all article formatting when I did it, so I need to look into possibly coverting the database, or talking with Matias who build the original MTW migrator that this extension was derived from and see if he can shed some light on it.

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- Robert Vining
  August 3rd, 2011 - 16:20
  
  I also just read where I can install disqus comments on here first and it will synq these comments with disqus. Then when we move to the new site, I can just use the same comments over there. As long as the URL’s are the same.
  
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Robert Went
August 6th, 2011 - 04:30

Disqus is great. Another option would be to try the comments system from joomlart, I think that has the option to import comments from other systems. I guess you would already have to have the comments on the joomla site though.

This one is great for exporting 1.5 to 1.6

http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/migration-a-conversion/data-import-a-export/12816

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- Robert Vining
  August 6th, 2011 - 07:22
  
  We prefer JUpgrade, since we know Matias pretty well, he’s done a superb job with the migration from 1.5 directly to 1.7 using JUpgrade.
  
  http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/migration-a-conversion/joomla-migration/11658
  
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Robert Went
August 7th, 2011 - 02:37

Nice, I’ll check that out. My link was more for sharing articles between multiple sites but the first thing I tried to export to 1.6.

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Rafal
February 15th, 2012 - 08:22

so what happen to this? did the process of migrating from wp to joomla prove too difficult?

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- Robert Vining
  February 15th, 2012 - 09:06
  
  No, just too busy to get to it… this is a ‘when we have time’ project… not a paying one. Clients come first.
  
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