Although I do not want to make an apology for the switching from Joomla to WordPress if it is good to know that if at any time, for whatever reason, we need switch from joomla to wordpresswe can do it without this becoming a traumatic process full of complexities.
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Of course, these types of tasks always have to be done safely, without compromising the website in productionin this case Joomla and why not, without compromising the WordPress website too much, if it is an existing website, although the ideal is that the change be made to a new WordPress installation.
In this article I want to show you that the transition from Joomla to WordPress is simple and above all it is fastso fast that we dare to time it for you in the video that illustrates this article and we got it!migrate from Joomla to WordPress in just 5 minutes!.
Important the plugin FG Joomla to WordPress has been tested in its current stable version (2021) with an installation of Joomla 3.9.x (stable version) and its operation is correct and allows to export from Joomla and import in WordPress 5.7.x (stable version) the sections, categories, published, unpublished and archived articles, modify the image links of the articles and other purposes of the plugin. It is important to note that some of the export and import options require the use of the author’s premium version.
We do this process by using the plugin FG Joomla to WordPress available for WordPress 3.8which will take care of reading Joomla articles, categories, tags and article images and importing them into WordPress as a post, including images, categories and tags.
FG Joomla to WordPress Plugin Features
- Allows you to migrate Joomla sections and categories.
- Allows you to migrate categories that have subcategories.
- Migrate articles (published, unpublished and archived).
- Media files of all articles to WordPress /uploads folder (optional).
- External file upload support (optional).
- It allows to modify in the content all the links to multimedia files.
- Resize images according to the sizes defined in WordPress.
- Define the featured image as the first image of the WordPress post.
- Keeps the alt attribute of the image.
- Keeps the title of the image.
- Modify internal links.
- Allows you to migrate Joomla meta tags as keywords.
- Allows you to migrate page breaks.
- Joomla articles can be exported as stand-alone WordPress posts or pages.
It is worth noting that the version “paid” of this plugin also allows the import of featured images from Joomla 2.5, the import of content from the extinct Joomla 1.0 (currently there are still hundreds of installations under this version), the migration of users and their corresponding passwords (Author profile), the migration of menus and content generated with extensions such as K2, easy blog, FlexiContent, Kunena, JComments, JomComments and many others that are worth exploring in the .
The most interesting thing is in this video, where we show you in 4 minutes and 29 seconds how you can perform this task without any surprises.
Don’t forget to make a backup of the Joomla and WordPress website (if it is an installation in use) before proceeding with the content migration, however it must be said that the Joomla website will not be affected by this process.
If you were afraid to switch to WordPress because you thought the process would be a sea of difficulties, it’s time for you to change your mind and encourage yourself to make the leap from Joomla to WordPress with FG Joomla to WordPress.
Thanks from here to Frédéric GILLES the creation of this plugin that undoubtedly facilitates the task for users.
Updated on: 06/06/2021
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