I’ve had a Joomla site running for a little over 2 years now. What started off as just a content-based site gradually turned into a content site with a blog which then morphed into a heavily updated blog with some content. If you’ve used Joomla, you know it’s hard to get decent blog tools without paying any money. Being a fan of Wordpress, I settled on mojoBlog shortly before the developer stopped having time to work on it. It’s a great, little stripped-down version of Wordpress, but it’s also full of bugs and just doesn’t quite do what I want.
Lately I’ve been kicking around the idea of exporting everything to Wordpress. I can’t upgrade to Joomla 1.5 because mojoBlog won’t work. If I did upgrade to 1.5 I would have to pay some money to get the blog setup and running again. Last night I found an importer/exporter that will take Joomla content items and bring them into Wordpress 2.7. I know that’s not the most recent version, but it’s easy to upgrade from there. The hardest part was finding an old installation file.
From there, I just need to figure out how to tweak the template so things display how I want, import users, and figure a way to keep my permalinks. I’ve found a few plugins that I think will be very helpful both in menu style, user roles, and multiple permalink formats. As I’m testing these out and finding things I want to use, I’ll report back with what I’ve found and what works.
What did you find out? Were you able to bring in your data from Joomla and keep your permalinks?
I ended up migrating Joomla to 1.5 and importing my Wordpress data into Joomla 1.5. The main reason I scrapped the idea of moving to Wordpress is trying to figure out the menu system I wanted. It just got too complicated.