Quite a few people use the popular Open Source CMS software Joomla for just about everything they do. And in fairness, Joomla is a pretty flexible piece of code (from 1.5 and onwards anyway). One area where Joomla isn’t all that hot, however, is when it’s used as a “blog”.
There are a number of templates for Joomla that make it look like a blog, ish :-), but Joomla is far too “heavy” in its construct to be used as a proper blog. With the advent of WordPress 2.7x, there’s little reason not to use WordPress. One could argue that there are many alternatives to WP, such as Serendipity (S9Y). But few packages enjoy such as vast amount of themes, plugins, and so on. Never mind that most people rarely change their theme nor add any other plugins in than a few select.
Converting from one “content management” (neither WordPress nor Joomla qualify as fully featured CMS) software package to another isn’t as straightforward as one could wish. If you can run the databases from your old Joomla installation and your new WordPress installation, however, there’s help to get.
There are a few different solutions available out there; ranging from “one-click software” to custom solutions where you buy someone’s time to do it for you. One solution I found to do most of the hard work can be found here: Joomla2Wordpress Import Wizard v.3. This software assumes you have access to both databases from the server running your WordPress installation. It will not import physical images attached/included in your Joomla posts, but that wasn’t a show stopper in my case. I successfully converted a Joomla 1.0.1x installation to a WordPress 2.71 installation.
Thanks to all the people who put time and effort into that project.
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April 7th, 2009 at 7:30 am
Converting Joomla! 1.5 to Wordpress 2.7.x will be working?
Whats the facilities i get in converting?
April 7th, 2009 at 10:37 pm
Ofcourse it will work and many people are doing everyday. The facilities you will get are:
-wordpress is more SEO friendly than joomla
-wordpress 2.7.x is a revolution in the field of cms
-joomla database is vurnarable and cross site scripts works well with joomla.
-wordpress resources are more available than joomla.
Thank you for your comment.
April 11th, 2009 at 7:24 am
Hmm. Than ask a think. go to my site and check, tell me is that better if I migrate in wordpress?
April 11th, 2009 at 5:01 pm
I think it will not be a good idea to convert your site from joomla to wordpress.Because wordpress is specially for blogs and your site is more than a blog.It is pretty good and well organized.Just do a campaign to promote it.btw, check your site with Opera browser.May be some scripts are vurnarable for user computer.I found an warning from my browser.
Thank you.
April 11th, 2009 at 5:44 pm
I talk about it with Hasab bhai, he told me My site has no security problem. warnings are for javascript. My site used some javscript code. Thats why it warns. About that, appreciate your advise.
May 13th, 2009 at 10:19 pm
Nice ! :).. Thanks buddy..
May 20th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
Wordpress is not only a seo friendly blogging platform but also a powerful, reliable blogging platform. Its CMS is well furnished, you may happy when you blogging with wordpress.
May 21st, 2009 at 11:20 am
Another fact i think about wordpress is,it is too much user friendly and a lot of developers are there.
May 23rd, 2009 at 10:54 pm
Useful information , great post . Thanks for sharing !!
June 16th, 2009 at 7:41 pm
Hi. I like the way you write. Will you post some more articles?
June 16th, 2009 at 11:06 pm
Thanks for your appreciation. I will do
July 7th, 2009 at 2:29 am
I’m glad that after surfing the web for uch a long time I have found out this information. I’m really lucky.
July 16th, 2009 at 3:44 pm
Great topic. Now i can say thank you
July 17th, 2009 at 3:28 pm
+1
July 17th, 2009 at 8:42 pm
Very goood!!!
August 17th, 2009 at 7:58 pm
Thanks for post