Convert WordPress site to Joomla

The following column WordPress Tutorial will introduce to you how to move an existing WordPress site to Joomla. This works for many WordPress versions up to 5 and works with Joomla3.

Before you begin, you need to know the following:

This will import categories from WordPress, but it will not match the imported posts/pages with the corresponding associated with the category. This is because WordPress allows one post to be associated with multiple categories, while Joomla does not.

All WordPress categories and subcategories will simply become categories in Joomla.

WordPress uses the phpass algorithm to encrypt passwords, but Joomla uses MD5. Therefore, user login passwords imported from WordPress will not work. One way to solve this problem is to install the WordPress "MD5 Password Hashing" plugin before importing. This plugin converts WordPress passwords to MD5 that Joomla can understand: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/md5-password-hashes/

This will import your database, but not the file (image wait). You need to move them manually.

Comments will be imported if you have the JComments extension installed on your Joomla site.

step 1. Installing Joomla and JConverter Extension

Install a fresh copy of Joomla without any sample data.

Then find and download the JConverter extension for Joomla.

Install JConvertor into the new Joomla site.

Step 2. Get your WordPress database details

Go into your WordPress files and visit wp-config.php. Open the file, you will need to note the following details in the file:

Database Name

Database User

Database Password

Database Host

Database Prefix

Step 3. Enter your WordPress database details

Go back to your Joomla site and go to Extensions>JConvertor>Configuration and enter the database information you just collected:

Scroll down slightly to the "Select import options" settings group and proceed according to your preference:

Step 3. Start Conversion

After storing this data, click Save and then click Start Conversion.

You will now see the screen shown below. It will show the status of all imported data:

Step 4. Check your data

Go to Posts, Categories and Users and make sure all data has been imported successfully:

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