I am thinking of moving to a CMS. Lets see how it goes.

It’s not exactly push button  straightforward (look at the end of post for a possible solution to that) but here are the steps:

1. Backup everything in your WordPress site (Manage -> Backup) and save it on your computer. (If you haven’t backed anything up before, you may need to activate the plugin in WordPress.)
2. Install Joomblog in Joomla! (1 com, 1 bot, and 2 mods)
*** If you’ve been using JD-Wordpress in Joomla!, then skip to step 6. ***
3. Install JD-Wordpress in Joomla!
4. In phpMyAdmin, import the WordPress backup (from step 1) into the database that Joomla! is using.
5. Under Components -> JD-Wordpress, go to Manage -> Categories, and make sure they’re in a category. If it says “Uncategorized” but is not linked to a category called Uncategorized, then it’s not categorized. If this is the case, Manage -> Categories and make sure you have categories created. Then, Edit each post, select a category, and Save. There’s probably a script that could be written for phpMyadmin, but I’m not that savvy.
6. Under Components -> Joomblog, select Import, and click on Import WordPress. *
7. Once this is complete, look in Content By Section -> WordPress_Joomblog and you should find your articles.
8. Now is the fun time of placing the imported content in the right Joomla category and editing each one to clean up any mess the switch left behind.

Of course do all this in a trial site! The good news is that once you have the trial site all working to your satisfaction it’s simply a matter of moving everything to the “live site” and changing just two lines in the configuration.php file. Unlike WP where I ended up having to change the SQL itself.

Have a look at this as well : http://www.daydreymer.com/blog/technical/tools/wordpress-export-to-joomla.html

The Joomla forums are also a good place to look into issues with migrating.

Dave, could you send me a message from my web site, I’d like to stay in touch and this is not the place!

Nigel.

It’s not exactly push button  straightforward (look at the end of post for a possible solution to that) but here are the steps:

1. Backup everything in your WordPress site (Manage -> Backup) and save it on your computer. (If you haven’t backed anything up before, you may need to activate the plugin in WordPress.)
2. Install Joomblog in Joomla! (1 com, 1 bot, and 2 mods)
*** If you’ve been using JD-Wordpress in Joomla!, then skip to step 6. ***
3. Install JD-Wordpress in Joomla!
4. In phpMyAdmin, import the WordPress backup (from step 1) into the database that Joomla! is using.
5. Under Components -> JD-Wordpress, go to Manage -> Categories, and make sure they’re in a category. If it says “Uncategorized” but is not linked to a category called Uncategorized, then it’s not categorized. If this is the case, Manage -> Categories and make sure you have categories created. Then, Edit each post, select a category, and Save. There’s probably a script that could be written for phpMyadmin, but I’m not that savvy.
6. Under Components -> Joomblog, select Import, and click on Import WordPress. *
7. Once this is complete, look in Content By Section -> WordPress_Joomblog and you should find your articles.
8. Now is the fun time of placing the imported content in the right Joomla category and editing each one to clean up any mess the switch left behind.

Of course do all this in a trial site! The good news is that once you have the trial site all working to your satisfaction it’s simply a matter of moving everything to the “live site” and changing just two lines in the configuration.php file. Unlike WP where I ended up having to change the SQL itself.

Have a look at this as well : http://www.daydreymer.com/blog/technical/tools/wordpress-export-to-joomla.html

The Joomla forums are also a good place to look into issues with migrating.

Dave, could you send me a message from my web site, I’d like to stay in touch and this is not the place!

Nigel.

Thanks so much for adding this follow on comment. I subscribed to this thread nearly a year ago and notification of your new comment just popped up in my inbox. Great how the internet is connected isn’t it?

I would still love to migrate my WordPress blog to Joomla.

I would love as well if you could point me to the Joomla import utility or component that you mention. i have trawled through the Joomla extensions directory for a while looking for it but i have come up with nothing so far.

All the besr Dave – Allihies, Ireland

Thanks so much for adding this follow on comment. I subscribed to this thread nearly a year ago and notification of your new comment just popped up in my inbox. Great how the internet is connected isn’t it?

I would still love to migrate my WordPress blog to Joomla.

I would love as well if you could point me to the Joomla import utility or component that you mention. i have trawled through the Joomla extensions directory for a while looking for it but i have come up with nothing so far.

All the besr Dave – Allihies, Ireland

You are no longer limited to 2 level categories and can easily provide a menu item to supply categories or sections.

Menus can be multi-level as well.

Anyway, I just wanted to add my comment to let people know that since this article was written Joomla has taken great strides and many of the “negatives” mentioned in this article no longer hold true.

But Michael is correct, people do stay longer on a Joomla site.

Happy Blogging everyone … Nigel.

You are no longer limited to 2 level categories and can easily provide a menu item to supply categories or sections.

Menus can be multi-level as well.

Anyway, I just wanted to add my comment to let people know that since this article was written Joomla has taken great strides and many of the “negatives” mentioned in this article no longer hold true.

But Michael is correct, people do stay longer on a Joomla site.

Happy Blogging everyone … Nigel.

Kevin Kelly’s site at kk.org is a good example of this. Under an umbrella of the domain he actually runs several different topic blogs.

I hope to go in this direction with may be small ‘intro’ paragraphs appearing on the front page for stuff I think will be of general interest.

Difficult to get your head around but I think Kevin Kelly has got it right but then he *is* one of the grand-daddys of the wired world.

Kevin Kelly’s site at kk.org is a good example of this. Under an umbrella of the domain he actually runs several different topic blogs.

I hope to go in this direction with may be small ‘intro’ paragraphs appearing on the front page for stuff I think will be of general interest.

Difficult to get your head around but I think Kevin Kelly has got it right but then he *is* one of the grand-daddys of the wired world.

DS-Syndicate gives you full HTML layout in the feed including Pictures and lets you choose any section of category you want.

DS-Syndicate gives you full HTML layout in the feed including Pictures and lets you choose any section of category you want.

Fortunately there was a third party solution that allowed me to assign what went into my feed.

Which one?

Fortunately there was a third party solution that allowed me to assign what went into my feed.

Which one?

@mlankton – thank you for changing the link.

@mlankton – thank you for changing the link.

I was also glad to read you were able to get the SEF urls working. When I last worked with Joomla (it was around a year after their debut) there was a huge debate about SEF urls and the (lack of) good add-ons (i really can’t remember what Joomla name them again) that were available at the time. IT was definitely one area that put me off continuing to use Joomla.

And with regards to the link to the Mambo website, I am 100% certain that back in the day, Mamboserver.com WAS the website for Mambo, so I guess further complications must have arisen at some point.

Back to WP, at the moment I’m still really happy with what I have been able to do with WordPress (for my site) but perhaps if the need does come for me to move on, I will definitely consider Joomla or perhaps even Drupal (have read some good things about it) as the next step, especially with a guide here about how to migrate over successfully!

p/s: With regards to themes, I do agree that some of the WP themes do seem to merge into one despite the obvious differences, although perhaps the same could be said for the (very early) Joomla themes which just seemed to be made of modules placed in different areas with slightly different colours. I do like what you’ve done with your site though!

I was also glad to read you were able to get the SEF urls working. When I last worked with Joomla (it was around a year after their debut) there was a huge debate about SEF urls and the (lack of) good add-ons (i really can’t remember what Joomla name them again) that were available at the time. IT was definitely one area that put me off continuing to use Joomla.

And with regards to the link to the Mambo website, I am 100% certain that back in the day, Mamboserver.com WAS the website for Mambo, so I guess further complications must have arisen at some point.

Back to WP, at the moment I’m still really happy with what I have been able to do with WordPress (for my site) but perhaps if the need does come for me to move on, I will definitely consider Joomla or perhaps even Drupal (have read some good things about it) as the next step, especially with a guide here about how to migrate over successfully!

p/s: With regards to themes, I do agree that some of the WP themes do seem to merge into one despite the obvious differences, although perhaps the same could be said for the (very early) Joomla themes which just seemed to be made of modules placed in different areas with slightly different colours. I do like what you’ve done with your site though!

I am sorry to here that, but Joomla itself is secury if you follow the security guidelines they provide, like setting the right file permissions.

Mostly it is a component that is at fault, pleae check your log files to find the problem.

Still, I like Joomla for building a website more then just a blog.

I am sorry to here that, but Joomla itself is secury if you follow the security guidelines they provide, like setting the right file permissions.

Mostly it is a component that is at fault, pleae check your log files to find the problem.

Still, I like Joomla for building a website more then just a blog.

The place to find the Mambo CMS is mambo-foundation.org.

Thanks.

The place to find the Mambo CMS is mambo-foundation.org.

Thanks.

WordPress is good for blogging and also cms

but when you need a content organisation then Joomla/mambo or drupal rock

WordPress is good for blogging and also cms

but when you need a content organisation then Joomla/mambo or drupal rock

Let me know if you want my .htaccess your links would be link mine – .html

Let me know if you want my .htaccess your links would be link mine – .html

A friend swicthed from WordPress to Drupal and raved mainly about the ease of migration … any Drupal fans or foes out there?

A friend swicthed from WordPress to Drupal and raved mainly about the ease of migration … any Drupal fans or foes out there?

There are a few people that have done some nice things with their WordPress themes, but most of them look pretty amateurish. There’s no way I can say that without making some people mad, but it’s true.

Like I said in both articles, I think WordPress is great, and I’m certainly not trying to run it down. I am not telling everyone to run out and start using some CMS. I made the decision that it suited what I wanted to do better than WordPress did, and I wrote these articles hoping someone would find my observations useful.

There are a few people that have done some nice things with their WordPress themes, but most of them look pretty amateurish. There’s no way I can say that without making some people mad, but it’s true.

Like I said in both articles, I think WordPress is great, and I’m certainly not trying to run it down. I am not telling everyone to run out and start using some CMS. I made the decision that it suited what I wanted to do better than WordPress did, and I wrote these articles hoping someone would find my observations useful.

Great read and nice to see those great visitor increase on your site.

But Why hack into the core files to get better syndication?
There is a better way that will give you a lot more options, like setting up a feed for the whole site, or just a section or even just a categorie…
http://www.hummerbie.com/joomla-components/joomla-rss-feed-with-ds-syndication.html

You can even run it through Feedburner and have your feed reader counter up.

Just to inform you if you want to get more features the easy way.

As for the migration from Joomla 1.0x to Joomla 1.5 I would suggest to wait for that one, since there is no real SEF component ready yet and it is “only” on a staus Release Candidate 3 and there are more to come before a stable version.

And the plugin for Joomla 1.5 from Wysiwigpro is also just in a Beta status.

Great read and nice to see those great visitor increase on your site.

But Why hack into the core files to get better syndication?
There is a better way that will give you a lot more options, like setting up a feed for the whole site, or just a section or even just a categorie…
http://www.hummerbie.com/joomla-components/joomla-rss-feed-with-ds-syndication.html

You can even run it through Feedburner and have your feed reader counter up.

Just to inform you if you want to get more features the easy way.

As for the migration from Joomla 1.0x to Joomla 1.5 I would suggest to wait for that one, since there is no real SEF component ready yet and it is “only” on a staus Release Candidate 3 and there are more to come before a stable version.

And the plugin for Joomla 1.5 from Wysiwigpro is also just in a Beta status.

Great writeup on Joomla, we hadn’t looked closely at it before…

Just to comment on WYSIWYG Pro – it’s the best WYSIWYG web editor anywhere, and frankly I believe it’s currently the best wordpress/blog editor available. We’ve been using it for over a year.

The default WYSIWYG editor in wordpress is ridiculously handicapped, mainly by trying to be more intelligent than it is. It silently strips out any code it doesn’t like, such as video embeds, etc. Thanks but no thanks, I’ll decide what darn HTML I want in my post thank you!

So we highly recommend WYSIWYG Pro too.

Have an awesome day!
D&J

Great writeup on Joomla, we hadn’t looked closely at it before…

Just to comment on WYSIWYG Pro – it’s the best WYSIWYG web editor anywhere, and frankly I believe it’s currently the best wordpress/blog editor available. We’ve been using it for over a year.

The default WYSIWYG editor in wordpress is ridiculously handicapped, mainly by trying to be more intelligent than it is. It silently strips out any code it doesn’t like, such as video embeds, etc. Thanks but no thanks, I’ll decide what darn HTML I want in my post thank you!

So we highly recommend WYSIWYG Pro too.

Have an awesome day!
D&J